During NAIDOC week, a program helping children and families is encouraging everyone to celebrate the achievements of First Nations people by embracing this year's theme of Keep the Fire Burning! Blak, Loud and Proud.

The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program, based out of Brisbane, is putting evidence-based parenting in the hands of every parent.

Cultural Consultant Michell Forster told National Indigenous Times the program was for everyone, and she drew energy from her own upbringing.

"I think about myself having a mother that was institutionalised as a child and not having too much to draw from," the Kunja and Kooma woman said.

"She loved us, and she did the best she could with what resources she had…but she didn't have that much to draw on."

By the time of her third child, Ms Forster said she was struggling with him - even with her background in counselling and a masters degree, but said she was given support from Triple P, which gave her more skills to both build a healthy relationship with her son and enjoy parenting.

"So, I think there's lots of things there that Triple P can support our parents with; at the end of the day, it's [about] 'what does a parent need from Triple P?'" she said.

"Parents take what they need; we don't tell parents what to do, so we look at the self- determination there. And parents will take away what they need and put it into practice with their values and ideas and how they need to bring their children up."

Ms Forster was quick to highlight how all parents had different ideas and views on how to raise their children. Rather than tell a parent how to do this, Triple P puts evidence-based parenting in the hands of every parent and allows them to go down their own path.

"We all have different values and ideas and…thoughts about how we want to raise our children," she said.

"So, when we think of Triple P, that offers parents lots of strategies to support their children."

Something like respecting Elders, Ms Forster noted there were several strategies from Triple P that delivered support for "developing mutual respect and healthy relationships with our children".

As such, this allows Indigenous parents to make the best decision for their children, in line with self-determination.

"And at the end of the day, parents will put into practice with their kids what they need to, and their values and ideas will come with that," she said.

"We're not telling parents what to do. We're just offering a whole suite, or a toolbox, of different strategies that parents can use…they're all simple strategies, and they are all inside of us."

Ms Forster said part of that was encouraging parents to listen to their children, noting that when they come up to their parents, "they may be coming to you for something really important".

"If we stop and listen, put our phones down - if that is the blocker - and engage in that conversation with our kids, we're sending the message that we're available," she said, noting this means as children grow older, they know they have people to talk to.

On this year's NAIDOC theme, Ms Forster can't support it enough.

"We're really honouring all that work that all of our ancestors and Elders that have come before us, [they] have really paved that way today, and we're continuing to build on that —to keep that fire burning," she said.

More information on Triple P and their programs can be found online.