STUCK

  • Life After School

    Where to go for support. GROW offers for parents and the individual the knowledge and tools facilitated professionals to manage STUCK. This knowledge will assist parents and their adult child to navigate this period in their life which can be emotionally challenging.

  • When The Party Has Ended

    STUCK is about how some students feel “after “ the excitement of graduation and schoolies celebration.

    Over the years they have been guided by schools, who have been helping set our children in the direction that is best for them according to grades and interests. Our education departments have many tools to assist with a positive and productive outcome for outcomes after year 12.

This programme was developed  as a result of various parents’ experiences after their child left school and became clinically depressed. Students during their senior years look forward in anticipation of life after school. 

 GROW is here to assist parents, caregivers and friends of students to identify and be aware  of the signals to look for to determine if those you care for become STUCK and start suffering from anxiety or other mental health issues.

 Most students like to feel they have it all under control, only to find out they don’t always have their emotions under control. 

What GROW will do

Occasionally students feel confused, locked into a path at university or post education situations and it all becomes too much to handle and they can’t find a pathway forward that makes them comfortable. The student/child feels they have let everyone around them down, this is where the real anxiety and confusion begins.

When asked how is university or TAFE or course or job is progressing they feel they have let everyone including their parents and care givers down. They believe they are inadequate.

The parents are so proud of the child’s direction. They feel inadequate because they are confused and lack a true pathway and when relatives or friends say “when I was your age “they feel even more depressed, lonely, scared and confused. .

Many parents, and caregivers believe that their children should do better than they have, to have a good or better life, this further confuses the person. We unintentionally exasperate the problem of anxiety and confusion.

 

GROW has access to professional  speakers, who can assist in providing knowledge shining  a light and give a path way to help alleviate the confusion and anxiety.   

We all desperately want our children doing well and we sharing on social media and through conversations with close family and friends to convey how proud we are of our children’s achievements. In fact, sometimes it can be completely opposite for the child.  They believe they  need to keep everyone happy and do not have the tools to communicate their feelings of anxiety, depression, self disappointment and of  feeling lonely and scared.