Parenting support services

• Access employment support services, including your local job active provider
• Get involved in activities that will provide opportunities for skill development or employment
• Develop and realise your work goals for the future
• Engage with local community organisations, including your local library, cultural organisations (where appropriate), playgroups, and other parenting programs.

• Interesting workshops and discussion groups to help you plan your future employment and training opportunities
• Access to education and employment related assistance, when you are ready, delivered locally through employment and training organisations
• Assistance with transport to attend appointments and activities as needed
• Computer and Internet access
• Access to health and other support services from a range of local specialists service providers.

  
  

• Are aged 16 years and over
• Have a youngest child aged between nine months and six years old
• Have been in receipt of a parenting payment for at least six months
• Have been unemployed for at least six months
  
• Live in the Brisbane South East Region.

Clients will be referred by Services Australia as a condition of receiving Parenting Payment or can join the program on a voluntary basis by contacting us. Our staff will be in touch once a referral has been made.

Mabel Early Learning provides quality early childhood services which supports children to explore, create and discover the natural world through play based learning.

Mabel Early Learning is partnered with ParentsNext and other community organisations to provide adjunct care for parents of any age who are taking part in study, work readiness or personal development activities. With adjunct care at Mabel Early Learning, families can access childcare for short periods of time (up to three hours) while they remain on-site participating in programs at the Beenleigh Family Centre.

Our childcare program encourages children to play at their own pace in their own way and engage in developmentally appropriate activities that extend their learning, and supports parents and carers to set and work towards their own goals and aspirations at the same time. 

 Mabel Early Learning also offers parenting support and playgroups. We are committed to building and fostering healthy parenting and playgroup communities. 

• Receive individual care
• Are in an interactive and engaging learning environment 
• Have one-on-one time with their parents
• Mabel Early Learning opening hours are Monday to Friday 8am - 3pm during the school term. 

We believe children are unique, competent and capable individuals who learn best through play, developing skills that enable them to become lifelong learners.

Our early childhood services create responsive and sharing environments in our community where we want children to have a positive and memorable early childhood experience.

• Providing age appropriate social activities for children
• Working with families to encourage healthy and positive family and social support networks
• Providing parents or carers with access to information and support services about overcoming substance misuse
• Offering psycho-education and intervention to minimise the risk of adult and child abuse and neglect
• Offering in-home support to children, their parents and carers who are impacted by substance misuse
• Continuing our specialist interest in prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
• Offering personal and familial psychotherapy to improve individual well-being and family dynamics.