SPARK

Raising a child with ADHD often requires extra patience, flexibility, and understanding. Many parents and carers find the daily challenges – like emotional regulation, behaviour management, and maintaining routines – can be difficult to navigate on their own.

The SPARK your Support program is designed to empower parents and carers with practical tools and strategies tailored to the needs of children with ADHD. Across six weekly sessions, you’ll gain insights into ADHD and behaviour, strengthen family connections, and learn proven techniques to support your child with greater confidence and compassion.

Weekly Focus Areas for the SPARK your Support Program:

1. Understanding ADHD, parenting, and behaviour
2. Family relationships, values, and health/wellness
3. Emotion regulation, shared expectations, supports, and rewards
4. Behaviour agreements and consequences 1: increasing positive behaviours
5. Behaviour agreements and consequences 2: decreasing problem behaviours
6. Trouble shooting; further tips and tricks for an ADHD household

Following the SPARK your Support Program, Parents/Carers will be equipped to:

• Understand the link between ADHD and behaviour difficulties
• Use connection and quality time to improve your relationship with your child
• Scaffold and support to increase the likelihood of your child carrying out daily tasks
• Problem solve collaboratively with your child to reach a shared understanding
• Help your child to manage strong emotions when things don’t go their way
• Agree on natural consequences with your child and follow through on these calmly

Many children and adolescents with ADHD struggle with executive function skills – things like planning, organisation, time management, and follow-through. These challenges can affect their success at school, increase stress at home, and lead to frustration for both young people and their parents or carers.

The SPARK your Potential program is designed to build these essential skills through a collaborative approach. Parents/carers and their child or adolescent attend together, learning side-by-side and developing shared systems and strategies that work in real life. Over six weeks, families will gain practical tools to improve motivation, tackle homework, manage time effectively, and reduce stress around schoolwork and daily routines.

Weekly Focus Areas for the SPARK your Potential Program:

1. Understanding ADHD and executive function, goal setting
2. Maximising wellness, working together
3. Getting a system in place for homework
4. Managing barriers to application and follow through
5. Prioritising, deadlines, and getting down to work
6. Projects, tests, making notes, and study sessions

Following the SPARK your Potential Program, attendees will be equipped to:

• Set goals collaboratively (parent/carer + child/adolescent)
• Improve motivation and wellness for both parent/carer and child/adolescent
• Develop a clear system for tracking homework tasks
• Use scaffolding and support to ensure there is a clear framework for organisation tasks
• Address blocks to completion of homework and organisation tasks
• Complete homework sessions by prioritising, breaking tasks down, and checking in at the end

Children and adolescents with ADHD often find it hard to manage big emotions, bounce back from setbacks, or navigate social situations – leading to challenges at school, at home, and with peers. These difficulties can impact their confidence, relationships, and overall wellbeing – while also leaving parents and carers unsure of how best to support them.

The SPARK your Resilience program is designed to help. Through a collaborative approach, parents/carers and their child or adolescent attend together and learn practical strategies to build emotional regulation, resilience, and social skills. With a focus on real-life tools and shared learning, families will work together over six weeks to strengthen wellbeing, develop positive thinking habits, and improve social confidence.

Weekly Focus Areas for the SPARK your Resilience Program:

1. Understanding stress, triggers, and emotions
2. Managing difficult emotions, enhancing wellness
3. Unhelpful and helpful thinking patterns, and problem solving
4. Resilient thinking styles, values, and character strengths
5. Positive friendship behaviours: empathy, reading the room, chatting, compromising
6. Handling social difficulties: disagreements, teasing/belittling

Following the SPARK your Resilience Program, participants will be equipped to:

• Understand and recognise stress, triggers, and emotions
• Manage difficult emotions, enhancing wellness
• Recognise unhelpful and helpful thinking patterns
• Use resilient thinking styles, values, and character strengths
• Implement positive friendship behaviours: empathy, reading the room, chatting, compromising
• Better handle social difficulties: disagreements, teasing/belittling