Engadine District Youth Service

Consent Conversations

Book your place in our upcoming workshop

Consent Conversations: Parenting Seminar

Latest

Tuning into Teens

OurTuning Into Teens Parent Education Program is a FREE, 6 week workshop series - Held weekly on Tuesday evenings for 2 hours - to help parents learn important skills that will improve their communication and relationships with their teens and reduce conflict in their homes.
Tuning into Teens

A FREE 6 week parent education workshop series to help parents of teens aged 10-18 years reduce conflict, increase communication, and recognise, understand and respond to their teenager's emotions as well as their own.
Vote for Us in Sutherland Shire Local Business Awards

We'd love your vote in the 2021 Sutherland Shire Local Business Awards
Golf Day Big Success for The Family Co.

Our inaugural charity golf day, held on 21st May 2021 was a huge success for The Family Co, raising over $25,000 which will fund additional caseworker hours and new support programs.

Tuning into Teens

OurTuning Into Teens Parent Education Program is a FREE, 6 week workshop series - Held weekly on Tuesday evenings for 2 hours - to help parents learn important skills that will improve their communication and relationships with their teens and reduce conflict in their homes.
Warrior Women

Warrior Women is an empowering self-discovery program for teenage girls. This six-week program combines group sessions and individual support, designed to increase knowledge and give tools and strategies for young women to develop resilience, find their essence, build identity and self-esteem and create a supportive community of caring and connected young women.
EDYS School Holiday Program Term 1 2021

Come enjoy some FREE school holiday activities at EDYS!
No Scaredy Cats

No Scaredy Cats is a FREE parenting education course to help families with children aged 2-12 years who experience anxiety.
Baby & Me: Young Parents Support Group

Our FREE, 4 week "Baby & Me" Parenting Group for Young Parents is for pregnant or new parents with babies under 6 months to learn parenting skills and "parenting secrets" to help foster connection. The Term 3 (2021) program commences on 18th August at our Engadine centre.
Healing Connections

Healing Connections is a 7 week group program that assists safe caregivers to understand attachment in parenting relationships, how exposure to trauma impacts on a child’s brain development, what the symptoms of a child who has been impacted by trauma look like and how children can heal within a safe and secure relationship with their caregiver.
Love Bites

Love Bites is an extremely successful school based domestic and family violence, sexual assault and consent awareness education program, targeted at Year 10 students, which is run in local high schools by trained facilitators.
Bringing up great kids
Baby and me
Youth and Family Worker

The Youth & Family Worker provides a range of support, information and referrals which assist young people aged 12-18 years, their families and carers, in and environment that is non-judgemental, safe and friendly.

National Domestic Violence issue in the news - but locally, what can we do?

Here in the Sutherland Shire, we see hundreds of “Hannah’s” each year – women who are living an unimaginable nightmare, experiencing many forms of domestic violence, trying to leave their violent partners, who fear for their and their children’s lives. Women who come to us for help.
About Us

We exist because all children and families should have a safe home, strong connections and opportunities to thrive in life.
Circle of Security

Circle of Security is a relationship program designed to strengthen the parent/ caregiver relationship through enhancing attachment security. It is an evidence based program that helps parents/ caregivers recognise new ways to understand their child’s needs and behaviours, and learn effective ways to connect with their child.
Volunteer

Volunteering is a great way to help us! We're a lean and specialised team, and while we don't allow volunteers in client facing capacities, we are very grateful to have volunteers who can assist with admin, marketing and events. If you're interested, we'd love to hear from you!
Family Caseworker Program

Family Workers provide assistance to families who, for a variety of reasons, would benefit from additional support.
Djanaba director Jann celebrates 30 years service

Today we celebrated, Jann Griffiths, our Djanaba Occasional Care Centre Director for her 30 years of service to SSFS, with a team morning tea. This was a wonderful opportunity to thank Jann for caring for and brightening the lives of more than a thousand children during this time.
How to Refer

Help is easy to access. You can be referred by another agency, or self-refer.
Support for Parents & Families

We offer services that support and strengthen the capacity of families, build parenting skills, and promote safety for all family members.
Supported Playgroup

Supported Playgroup operates every Monday morning during school terms in our own purpose-built child care centre in Jannali.
Accessibility