Parent Group Leader Trainingfor practitioners working with Parents of Children with a Disability or Special Needs - 18th/19th & 25th /26th November
The Parenting Puzzle is a structured 10 week programme promoting emotional health, relationship skills and positive behaviour management strategies for parents/carers. Family Links 4-day training forpractitioners working with parents of children and young people who have a disability, in special needs settings or services. The Nurturing Programme has been delivered successfully in numerous special schools across the UK. However, Family Links is aware that parents of children with a disability can face many additional challenges. We have therefore collaborated with clinical psychologists from Ealing’s Service for Children with Additional Needs to develop a handbook, specifically for practitioners working with this group of parents. It is recommended that the handbook is only used by Parent Group Leaders who have experience of working with children with disabilities and when all of the parents in the group have a child with a disability.
Who is this training for?
This training is recommended for parentingand family practitioners working in special schools, special needs settings or running groups where all of the parents in the group have a child with a disability.
Parenting Puzzle Features:
The Parenting Puzzle encourages an approach to relationships that gives children and parents an emotionally healthy springboard for their lives and their learning.
- Promotes emotional literacy and emotional health.
- Enhances self-esteem, self-awareness and empathy.
- Develops communication and relationship skills.
- Provides effective strategies to encourage co-operative, responsible behaviour and manage challenging behaviour in children.
The Training Promotes:
Personal and professional reflection.
Facilitative and empathic work to increase confidence and skills in parents and families
Knowledge and confidence in the use of the Parenting Puzzle
Apartnership approach to work with parents
Consistency of practice amongst all professionals and also team and multi-agency work
I am targeting this training at Special schools andsettings who support parents that have children with additional needs, to offer the hugely successful Family Links’ Parent Group Leader Training, which issuitable for those working with parents in this field and who have the capacity to offer parenting courseswithin their setting.
The places are being offered free to your setting and the £800 fees will be paid on your behalf out of Parenting Early Intervention funding. In return you must commit to:
To attend and complete the 4 days training & 1 day refresher a year later
- To deliver a minimum of 2 groups per academic year.
- To work with partner agencies to deliver where possible.
- To ensure that you can fund resources, refreshments and associated costs of running groups (Approx £200 per group).
- Completing and returning the course paperwork, monitoring information Outcome Star evaluation
Please contact Eve Kelly-Gibson Parenting Coordinator, to discuss as we will need to meet prior to confirming your place on the course: or 07582 100993