Listening to Families – Short video series

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Welcome to Listening to Families

Listening to Families videos provide answers to everyday questions about health and wellbeing challenges facing children and adolescents. The questions the videos answer are real – they come directly from families. The answers are provided by trusted specialists.

For individuals:

We know when your child or family member is having a tough time the whole whānau is impacted. Trying to work out what’s going on while navigating health services and keeping your child safe and happy in their home and school environment can be challenging. Your child has loads of questions, as do you as a parent, caregiver or family member.

In the Listening to Families videos, we’ve had real-life questions from families answered by trusted specialists.. These videos will help you understand what’s going on in your child’s brain, suggest tools and tactics to use every day, and provide ideas of positive, proactive steps to support your child. Links to trusted resources are also provided.

The Listening to Families videos are free. You can watch them in your own environment and at a pace that suits you, and you can share the videos with other members of your family, extended whānau, or friends facing similar challenges. You can also discuss with your health professional or your child’s school.

For schools and health professionals:

The Listening to Families resource is a valuable and immediate tool to access targeted, advice on some big health and wellbeing challenges facing our whānau and communities. In these videos, we’ve had real-life questions from families answered by trusted specialists.

The Listening to Families video series will help those supporting our young people to understand what’s going on in the young person’s brain, suggest tools and tactics to use every day, and provide ideas of positive, proactive steps to support the child. Health practitioners or educators can share the videos with patients or families either one-to-one or in group work. The format of the videos is ideal for a group setting.

Links to the Listening to Families videos can be shared to support repeat viewing in the home and sharing with other members of the family or extended whānau.