What does Working in Partnership involve?

The Working in Partnership workshop is designed to introduce professionals to the Family Partnership Model – an evidence-based relational model that helps educators to work towards shared goals with families and to respond to families emerging needs.

Professionals may then choose to work towards undertaking a five-day Family Partnership Model Foundation Course to enhance their skills and confidence in applying a family partnership approach.

Working in Partnership is available in a 3 hour, one-day or two-day workshop format. Each workshop helps professionals to identify and employ strategies that support a partnership approach within and across services.

Working in Partnership - 3 hour workshop

In the three-hour workshop, participants will:

access tools and strategies from the internationally recognised Family Partnership Model, proven to help parents and professionals to work effectively together

learn how to develop authentic relationships that support families and enable them to feel comfortable sharing their needs and experiences.

learn how to approach problem management from a family partnership perspective

explore ‘engagement’ and ‘partnership’ as concepts that enhance the quality of your practice

learn the worker and service characteristics that support better engagement and authentic partnerships.

Please note: All training is participatory and highly interactive. Participants attending online workshops are asked to have cameras turned on throughout the session with a preference for one participant per screen. 

Date: 17 & 24 June 2024

Time: 4.00pm - 5.30pm (each week)

Delivery: Online via Zoom (2 x 1 hour 30-minute sessions)

Cost: $231 incl GST

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Online Workshop exclusively for a service with a minimum of nine and maximum of 15 participants: $3,465 (incl. GST) per workshop.

• $245 incl GST per face-to-face participant (Metropolitan Melbourne & Regional Victoria)
• Face-to-face workshop exclusively for a service with a minimum of nine and maximum of 15 participants: $3,675 (incl. GST) per workshop plus travel expenses (Metro, regional and rural delivery) and travel time (regional and rural delivery).

Working in Partnership - one-day workshop

This full-day Working in Partnership workshop is designed to introduce professionals to the Family Partnership Model – an evidence-based relational model that helps educators to work towards shared goals with families and to respond to families emerging needs.

Professionals may then choose to work towards undertaking a five-day Family Partnership Model Foundation Course to enhance their skills and confidence in applying a family partnership approach.

Duration: 1 day

Delivery: Face to face

Cost: $430 incl GST

No dates currently available. Email training.ccch@rch.org.au for further information.

• $430 incl GST per face-to-face participant (Metropolitan Melbourne & Regional Victoria)
• Face-to-face workshop exclusively for a service with a minimum of nine and maximum of 15 participants: $6,300 (incl. GST) per workshop plus travel expenses (Metro, regional and rural delivery) and travel time (regional and rural delivery).

Working in Partnership - two-day course 

Course overview:

The two-day Working in Partnership course provides a great introduction to the Family Partnership Model, exploring the key concepts of authentic ‘engagement’ and ‘partnership’, and reflective practice. 

This two-day course is intended to support practitioners gain a broad brush understanding of the core concepts and skills considered to be necessary for effective partnership with parents, colleagues and community services. It has been informed by the Family Partnership Model (UK) however completion of the course should not be considered equal to the successful completion of the full Family Partnership Model foundation course.

Dates: TBC

Time: 9.30am - 4.00pm (each week)

Delivery: Face to face

Venue: TBC, Parkville

Cost: $860 incl GST

No dates currently available. Email training.ccch@rch.org.au for further information.

Delivery details for groups

Online:

Online participants will require access to a device (computer or tablet) with MICROPHONE and CAMERA functionality to participate fully in this workshop. Ideally participants should be on their own device and not sharing screens with other participants.

Face-to-face:

Organisations must provide venue and catering. The venue must be able to accommodate participants in a safe environment, allowing for current restrictions around social distancing.

Capacity: 

• Minimum 9 online participants, maximum 15
• Minimum of 9 face-to-face participants, maximum 15

Organisations may wish to partner with other organisations to meet minimum numbers.

Please note: Face-to-face workshops will incur additional travel expenses. A quote will be provided on application.

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Target audience

This workshop is suitable for all professionals who work with children and families, including early childhood educators and those working with families experiencing vulnerability. All workshops are available to regional and rural locations.

Evidence

This workshop is underpinned by the Family Partnership Model. A number of research trials have demonstrated the positive benefits of the Family Partnership Model in enhancing the developmental progress of children, parent-child interactions and the psychological functioning of parents, families and children.

The Centre has facilitated this model across Australia and is the lead Australian collaborator with the model’s UK authors. This helps to ensure that quality standards in implementation and training fidelity are maintained.