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» Kids Help Line » Kids Help Line Peer Skills » Kids Only » Karla Lee Foundation » Cubby House » The Lounge » Australian Childhood Foundation » Early Childhood Connections » 4 Kids	» Kids Guide to Divorce » Divorce Kids - A Child's Perspective » It's Not Your Fault » Kids Turn » Kids.Net.Au » Emergency...Deal With It » Thanks Dad Photos » Teen Online » Reach Out

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Kids Help Line (www.kidshelp.com.au)

A 24 hours telephone & online counselling for children and young people in Australia.

Kids Help Line exists to assist people to develop strategies and skills which enable them to more effectively manage their own lives. An integral part of this mission is the provision of free, accessible national services which are founded on the principles of empowerment.

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Kids Help Line Peer Skills (www.peerskills.com.au)

Peer Skills is a means of assisting young people to help themselves and others and to practice caring in a useful and effective way.

Kids Help Line (KHL) developed the Peer Skills workshop in 1994 in response to the number of calls from young people concerned about their friends, and requests from schools for students to do work experience at KHL. Since that time the Peer Skills workshop has trained 10,000 young people across Australia.

Young people appreciate developing skills that enable them to feel and be more competent in negotiating their relationships and supporting their friends and peers. They demonstrate aptitude, openness and willingness to learn and practice communication skills.

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Kids Only (www.cyh.com/cyh/kids/index.html)

So, welcome to "Kids Only" a site for the 6 to 12 year olds.

Like the other Child and Youth Health sites, at this site you will be able to find advice and help on being a healthy, happy kid.

All the topics on all the sites have been written because people asked for those topics to be written.

• Over 500 kids were surveyed to find out what topics they would like on the Kids Only site.
• All the topics have been ‘trialed’ by kids.
• Nearly every drawing is the work of kids.
• Kids wrote most of the poems.
• We are writing more topics all the time on all 3 sites as people e-mail us asking for help and advice.

Young people appreciate developing skills that enable them to feel and be more competent in negotiating their relationships and supporting their friends and peers. They demonstrate aptitude, openness and willingness to learn and practice communication skills.

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Karla Lee Foundation (www.karlaleefoundation.com)
Email: info@karaleefoundation.com

"Helping Children and Families of Divorce"

The focus of the Karla Lee Foundation is to help children, who suffer from the pain of separation and divorce. "For too long children have been the forgotten victims of divorce," said Karla "We need to change our patterns of behaviour and start to realise that they are the next generation. We need to communicate to children now and to not brush the topic of the divorce under the carpet."

The Foundation is designed to bring hope and an understanding of how children feel in this situation.

Foundations Purpose

To provide easily accessible resources and workshops for children from divorced families. To educate Parent's providing education, encouragement, support and a positive outlook. To bring hope where there was once none, and to never loose sight of the bigger picture.

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Cubby House (www.headroom.net.au/cubby/index.html)

Part of the Headroom Website, a joint initiative of the South Australian Department of Human Services, Flinders Medical Centre, and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide.

For children 6 – 12 years of age to access.

Looks at issues such as friends, bullying, stress and problem solving.

It has plenty of fun activities that you can do as well as a bulletin board and a gallery where you can place photos or artwork for others to see.

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The Lounge (www.headroom.net.au/lounge/index.html)

Part of the Headroom Website, a joint initiative of the South Australian Department of Human Services, Flinders Medical Centre, and the Women’s and Children’s Hospital Adelaide.

Designed to be accessed by 12 – 18 year olds.

This section of Headroom has information and ideas about positive mental health. The information in the Lounge has been written by young people to make sure that it makes sense to other young people.

In here you can find out:

• What positive mental health is;
• What issues and situations affect your mental health; and
• How you can look after your mental health.

Australian Childhood Foundation (www.kidscount.com.au/Default.asp)

Kids Count – Every Child is Important

Being a parent is the most important job you can do. It also lasts a lifetime. Some say it is a journey filled with amazing rewards and sometimes seemingly impossible challenges.

This website explores a number of important topics of interest for parents. Above all, it gives you a chance to think about children, parenting and how you can provide your children with the experiences you want for them as they grow up.

This website contains lots of very valuable information about parenting and child development. Hopefully it will inspire you, boost your confidence and give you lots of great ways to enjoy family life.

The Kids Count website is part of the "Every Child is Important" campaign which has been developed by the Australian Childhood Foundation and supported by the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services

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Early Childhood Connections (www.rch.org.au/ecconnections/index.cfm?doc_id=1247)

Early Childhood Connections is an Australian website, containing more than 400 Australian and 350 International website links. These links are collated alphabetically and in submenus to provide easy viewing and access to the most up to date information for professionals and parents interested in the renewed emphasis on the early childhood years.

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4 Kids. Cool stuff for 7 – 12 year olds (www.erl.vic.gov.au/kids/kids.htm)

The "4 kids" website is a fun site for children aged 7-12 yrs. It has great links for computer games, animals, books, music, tv and movies to name a few. The site is provided by Eastern Regional Libraries. It even has a link to the Yuckiest Site on the Internet. Find out about yucky things such as cockroaches and gross things about the human body.

Need some help finding information for a school project? There are plenty of resources to help you with that as well.

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