When you’re chatting to other parents at school pickup, or on the sidelines at Saturday morning sport, have you ever noticed how often (and quickly) parents love to say that their kids play rep sport?
We get it, making a rep squad is an achievement, and it’s natural for parents to be proud. However, many of us place tremendous weight on the success of our kids in the sporting realm.
Wonderful to hear how a great footy club supports one of their own going through trauma.
None of us set out to have a negative impact on our kids when we start enrolling them in
junior sport but along the journey something changes. SALT’s Positive Parenting course re-sets the dial. Through
smart, positive sports parenting, we can help prepare our kids for life and one day they will
thank you for what you did.
I’m not sure which chapter of the post SALT career book this will sit in, but it needs to be told as it is a uniquely SALT experience. I was booked in to deliver a Mental Health session to the Laharum FNC under the Netball Vic/WorkSafe funding. The session wasn’t to be held at the…
One of the other developing dynamics in the life of SALT is the increasing amount of work we are getting from partner organisations. Often now, we will partner with larger organisations to deliver more bespoke and collaborative workshops. Some of these projects include: The Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation (VRGF). Through the VRGF we are very…
In the recent school holidays we spent a full day with 60 kids aged 12-18 from the Northern Football Netball League and then another full day with another 60 kids from Bendigo and the junior football / netball clubs in Central Victoria. The events were held at Latrobe Universities (Bundoora and Bendigo) and we had…
We ran the first pilot series in 2022 with 4-8 leaders from 50 clubs, encompassing 18 sporting codes. It was 8 online sessions of 90 minutes. Every club received a workbook, resources, connections with each other and challenges to achieve for the month. They were also assigned a SALT mentor to work with them in…
During the lockdowns we developed a range of online courses including Re-Connect and Re- Emerge. Gradually we developed all SALT courses to be available on-line as well as face to face. This gave us greater reach and reduced travel. It also meant we could offer our courses at a greatly discounted price. We also believed…
SALT have been working with the Whittlesea City Basketball Association, City of Whittlesea and DPV Health in a project funded by the State Government of Victoria to tackle the Prevention of Violence Against Women through Community Sport. The project aims to challenge the social constructs of gender stereotypes in order to create safe, fair and…
Although the unseasonal cold and wet spring has had an impact on our start to summer sports, it has been fantastic to deliver sessions into the Bairnsdale Cricket Association. These sessions have been funded by the Bendigo Bank as part of the East Gippsland Bushfire Campaign. The cricket clubs that have participated are West Bairnsdale,…
