Tweddle Child & Family Health Service

07/06/2026

✨This week is Infant Mental Health Awareness Week 2026.

This year’s theme, Attunement, highlights the importance of noticing, understanding and responding to a baby’s emotional and developmental needs.

At Tweddle, attunement, strengthening attachment and relationships are central to our work with babies, toddlers and their families.

🤱🏽Long before they have words, babies communicate through their cries, facial expressions, movements and behaviours. When parents and caregivers respond with warmth, sensitivity and consistency, babies learn that they are safe, valued and understood.

🌱 The early years provide a powerful window of opportunity to shape a child’s future. Through everyday moments of connection, comfort and responsiveness, we help babies develop the secure foundations they need to thrive.

We invite you to visit our website to learn more about Tweddle’s programs.

🌐 www.tweddle.org.au
📞 (03) 9869 1577

06/06/2026

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The Tweddle team are looking forward to supporting and caring for families needing additional help with their babies and toddlers. From sleep, bonding, attachment, feeding, play, learning, cues and connection, we’re dedicated to strengthening families in the early months and years of a child’s life. See you soon!

03/06/2026

As part of National Reconciliation Week, we were honoured to welcome Bunurong artist, cultural educator and community leader Kobi Sainty to Tweddle.

Kobi shared his cultural knowledge and personal experiences while standing before his striking artworks and murals at our Bunurong and Wurundjeri Early Parenting Centres.

Drawing on stories of growing up with his grandparents, Kobi reflected on the profound influence of their strength, resilience and lifelong advocacy for the rights of First Nations peoples.

Through powerful storytelling, he offered valuable insights into Bunurong culture, the importance of allyship, and the role we all play in fostering respect, curiosity and understanding of First Nations peoples, cultures and Country.

His message reinforced that reconciliation is an ongoing commitment, one that begins with listening, learning and creating safe, inclusive environments where children can grow with cultural pride, respect and connection.

Kobi’s storytelling inspires curiosity, wonder and respect.

It reminds us of the strength, resilience and survival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples despite the ongoing impacts of colonisation, the Stolen Generations, displacement, disease and systemic injustice.

As Kobi shared, babies and young children are like sponges, they learn from the world around them.

When their environment is nurturing, kind, free from racism, and reflects cultural pride, they are more likely to grow into adults who value and respect Aboriginal languages, cultures and histories.

🙏🏼 Thank you, Kobi, for sharing your knowledge and inspiring us to continue our reconciliation journey, both as an organisation and as individuals.

03/06/2026

Join the Tweddle Team!

We are looking for a Residential Parenting Assessment and Skill Development (PASD) Program Manager for a 12-month fixed term position at Footscray, to champion clinical excellence in Early Parenting Care. This is a unique leadership opportunity to join our leading program in a purpose-driven organisation, allowing you to make a real difference in the lives of babies, toddlers, and families across Victoria.

The PASD Program provides a flexible and responsive service to meet families' specific needs in relation to parenting capacity and support where there is complex vulnerability.

🗓️ Applications close on the 17th of June.

A unique leadership opportunity to join our leading program in a purpose-driven organisation, allowing you to make a real difference in the lives of babies, toddlers, and families across Victoria.

27/05/2026

At Tweddle, National Reconciliation Week is a time of genuine action, learning and connection.

Reconciliation Australia’s 2026 theme, All In, is a reminder that reconciliation is not a spectator sport.

We are thrilled to welcome Kobi Sainty, contemporary Bunurong artist, Cultural Educator and community leader to Tweddle.

As part of NRW, will deliver a Welcome to Country, Cultural Talk, Artefact sharing session and Q&A for staff and families.

We first met Kobi when he created a stunning series of murals at our Wyndham EPC, and he has been a valued member of our RAP Working Group ever since.

Across the week, our Play Facilitators will be sharing First Nations story time with babies, toddlers and families.

Staff will also be raising funds for V***A, supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in care, to stay safe, strong and connected to culture.

You can make a donation to on their website https://www.vacca.org/donate

Tweddle remains All In, committed to truth-telling, hard conversations, and refusing to be bystanders in the face of racism.

Sovereignty has never been ceded.

This always was, and always will be, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander land.

21/05/2026

Is your little one aged 0–6? 💛

Tweddle is offering a free, 8 week Circle of Security program for parents and carers starting in July.

Circle of Security is a friendly and fun, practical program that helps you understand your child’s emotional needs, build a stronger and more connected relationship, and feel more confident in your parenting.
 
📅 Starting Monday 13 July – 31 August
🕙 10:00am – 11:30am, weekly
📍 Tweddle’s Wyndham EPC
🙌🏽 Free
 
Whether you’re feeling confident or finding things tough, this program is for every parent who wants to feel more connected to their baby, toddler or child.

To register or find out more, contact us at (03) 9689 1577 or email [email protected] to reserve your spot.
 
🤗We look forward to meeting you.
 

16/05/2026

This IDAHOBIT Day (International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersex Discrimination and Transphobia), Tweddle stand with our LGBTQIA+ staff, families and communities. 🏳️‍🌈

IDAHOBIT marks the anniversary of 17th May 1990, when the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from its Classification of Diseases.

Today, 68% of LGBTQIA+ employees are not out to everyone at work, 2 in 3 LGBTQIA+ young people experience abuse due to their identity, and Rainbow parents continue to face discrimination in healthcare settings.

Tweddle is a workplace and a service where every person, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or intersex variation should feel safe, seen and valued. 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️

14/05/2026

How are you and your little ones celebrating National Families Week? 🧸
 
This week at Tweddle we are sharing family activities that help:

✨Strengthen bonds
✨Reflect on strengths
✨Connect through play
✨Celebrate diversity
✨Nurture belonging
 
If you or your family need early parenting support, call Tweddle on:
📞03) 9689 1577 or visit
🌐www.tweddle.org.au

11/05/2026

This International Nurses Day, we honour our dedicated team of 30 Registered Nurses, 46 Early Parenting Practitioners and 13 Midwives.

With such a compassionate and skilled team come some of the most heartwarming stories. Not only of the specialist and caring support provided to babies, toddlers and their families, but also of the connections shared among colleagues.

Tweddle clinicians are at the forefront of preventive healthcare, improving infant and parent mental health, reducing family stress, and diverting families from further adversity.

Their work leads to healthier communities, making lasting impacts across generations.

❤️From all of us at Tweddle, Happy International Nurses Day to our team, and to nurses everywhere.

09/05/2026

🌸 We are sending our love to all the new and first time mums, single mums, foster mums, trans mums, mums who have lost a child, to those missing their mums, and to those who have a challenging relationship with their mums.

🩷No matter what the day brings you (and we hope it’s a cup of tea in bed and a long cuddle), we are with you on your parenting journey.

💕 Thank you to the Tweddle Wyndham EPC mums who enjoyed a special photo session in our family playroom this week.

Wishing you all a Happy Mother’s Day from all of us at Tweddle. 🌸

https://www.tweddle.org.au