• Build your capacity to support children to develop resilience, confidence, and respectful relationships.


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  • Everyone in our community deserves to be respected, valued, and treated equally. We know the benefits of positive attitudes, behaviours and equality being embedded in our education settings. The Respectful Relationships initiative is offering free professional learning for early childhood educators in Victorian government funded kindergarten programs.

    The professional learning is designed to strengthen the capacity of early childhood educators to promote respectful relationships, positive attitudes and behaviours within their teaching approach, to enable children to build healthy relationships, resilience and confidence. It will also increase educator knowledge about the role of gender equality in the prevention of family violence, and is informed by the Respectful Relationships in schools approach recommended by the Royal Commission into Family Violence.

    Up to 2,400 early childhood educators will opt-in and benefit from the professional learning.

  • Eligibility

    The training is available state-wide, to early childhood educators working in Victorian government funded kindergarten programs with a bachelor, diploma or certificate III qualification. 

  • Topics  covered

    • Topic 1: Understanding and Developing Respectful Relationships in Early Childhood - Dynamics of Gender Equality and Family Violence

    • Topic 2: Supporting Children to Understand and Manage Their Emotions Through Social Competence and Promoting Inclusive Environments in Early Childhood

    • Topic 3: Understanding Family Violence and the Practical Strategies for Building Support Networks

    Course Length

    • Two-hour e-learning module
    • One day online workshop of 6 hours (9am - 3pm)


    Registration for 2023  

    The Respectful Relationships program will run from March to May 2023, click on the months below to view the workshop dates.

    Due to great response, additional workshop dates have been released in April and May 2023.

     Register




  • 2023 Dates




    • Wed, March 15
    • Fri, March 17
    • Mon, March 20
    • Tue, March 21
    • Thu, March 23
    • Tue, March 28
    • Wed, March 29
    • Fri, March 31
    • Mon, April 3
    • Tue, April 4
    • Wed, April 5
    • Wed, April 26
    • Thu, April 27
    • Fri, April 28
    • Tue, May 02
    • Wed, May 03
    • Thu, May 04
    • Fri, May 05
    • Mon, May 08
    • Wed, May 10
    • Thu, May 11
    • Mon, May 15
    • Tue, May 16
    • Fri, May 19
    • Mon, May 22
    • Tue, May 23
    • Wed, May 24
    • Thu, May 25

  • Together we can lead the way in supporting children to develop resilience, confidence, and respectful relationships so that every child has the opportunity to achieve their full potential.

  • Please do not hesitate to email us at edu-respectfulrelationships@monash.edu should you have a question about this site or the registration process.