Helping you understand your child’s emotions, behaviours and experiences to support their wellbeing.
Explore our self-paced learning pathways or complete the Family Check-in to get recommendations targeted to your child and family’s needs.
Share the Families Hub with parents and learn more about how it can support your practice with families navigating child mental health concerns.
If you are feeling overwhelmed or low, or you are concerned that someone in your family is struggling or might be thinking of suicide, you can call Lifeline on 13 11 14. If anyone's life is in immediate danger, call Triple Zero (000)
The Emerging Minds Families Hub is a collection of guided pathways to help parents support children’s mental health, including during and after common childhood experiences that might impact their mental health and wellbeing.
After completing the simple Family Check-in, you’ll be guided to information, practical strategies and further support that’s right for your child and family, depending on their experiences and needs. You can also access pathways directly through the Learning Pathways page.
All health professionals and practitioners working with families
The Families Hub is designed for use by all health professionals, educators and other practitioners providing care and support to children, parents and/or families. You can use or share pathways with parents and carers to help them understand their child’s experience, emotions and behaviours, and to feel more confident supporting their child’s mental health.
And all parents and carers of children
Families Hub pathways and resources are for anyone who is a parent or primary carer for a child, regardless of your role or the shape or size of your family.
Families Hub pathways may be useful for supporting any child – both those who are experiencing mental health difficulties and those who are not. The pathways explore common experiences for children and everyday things parents can do to lessen the impacts on children’s wellbeing.
The guidance and strategies are evidence-based and safe to use at home with children who are seeing a health professional and those who aren’t, including those waiting to get an assessment or support.
Yes, all Emerging Minds resources are freely available.
The Families Hub is an initiative of the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health (NWC) which is led by Emerging Minds. The NWC is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.
The Family Check-in will take about 7 to 8 minutes.
All Families Hub pathways are self-paced, so you can explore them whenever, and for however long, you choose.
Pathways are divided into short modules (around 15 minutes). Some pathways have only one module; most have between 5 and 8 modules.
Yes! We are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our users and visitors. The Families Hub does not transmit, share, or otherwise make your information available to practitioners, clinicians, service providers, or other external parties. Emerging Minds does not provide practitioners with access to your activity, entries, progress, or usage of the Hub, and the Hub does not create any channel for practitioner oversight or involvement and no data from the Families Hub is used for clinical decision making.
You are solely responsible for deciding whether to share any information or outputs from the Hub with health professionals or any other individuals. If you choose to disclose your reflections or tool outputs to a practitioner, you do so at your own discretion.
Our Privacy Policy provides detailed information on when and why we collect your de-identified personal information, how we use it once collected, the limited circumstances under which we may disclose it to others, and how we keep it secure. You also have the option of interacting with us anonymously by using a pseudonym.
For over 20 years, Emerging Minds has been dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Australian infants, children, adolescents and their families. Emerging Minds now leads the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to provide training, programs and resources to health professionals to enhance the wellbeing of children and families.
The Emerging Minds Families team develops free resources health professionals can use in their work with children, parents and carers to support families in nurturing and protecting children’s mental health and wellbeing. Resources are also freely available to parents, carers and family members.
All our resources are informed by and share the:
latest research knowledge about children’s mental health
lived experience of children, parents and families
practice experience of health professionals, educators and other practitioners who engage with children and families.
More than 100 health professionals, educators, parents, carers and young adults with childhood experiences related to pathway topics were involved in the design and development of the Families Hub.