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Engaging families: Building and sustaining helpful relationships with parents

  • Online courses

    Engaging Families: Building and sustaining helpful relationships with parents

    Date: 28 March & 4 April 2023 - SOLD OUT
    Time:
    4.00pm – 5.30pm each week


    Date: 18 & 25 July 2023 - SOLD OUT
    Time: 
    4.00pm – 5.30pm each week

    Date: 1 & 8 November 2023
    Time: 
    4.00pm – 5.30pm each week

    Delivery: Online via Zoom (2 x 1.5 hour sessions held over 2 consecutive weeks)

    Cost: $220 incl GST

    Registration: Click here to register

    For enquiries on a running a workshop for your organisation please email training.ccch@rch.org.au

    Strong relationships with families help to promote positive parent-child relationships and early learning environments and experiences for children.  This series of on-line seminars (2 x 90 minutes) is designed to equip professionals with the confidence and tools necessary engage with parents who may have find services difficult to access. 

    What does Engaging Families involve? 

    Through this series of workshops participants will: 

    • explore the concept of parent engagement from the perspective of families who find it difficult to access early years services 

    • Understand the barriers and enablers of parent/practitioner engagement 

    • Be equipped with strategies and approaches to enhance engagement between families and early years services. 

    Face-to-face course

    Hearing the truth about why families choose to avoid our services might be a bit uncomfortable, but it could provide helpful information about what we need to change.

    Even when we are inspired to make changes to ensure that our service is as engaging as can be, it can be tough to know where to start. How might a local service model look if it were truly shaped and influenced by the families it is intended for?

    How can we enter into a genuine partnership with families to redevelop what we do and how we do it?

    This one day workshop explores the concept of parent engagement from the perspective of families who are service resistant. The workshop helps practitioners to engage, identify and employ strategies that promote and support parent engagement within and across services.

    Learning objectives

    To increase participants’ understanding of:

    • engagement as a term that lacks uniform definition;
    • ‘engagement’ as a culture of practice;
    • worker and service characteristics that support parent engagement; and
    • strategies to promote engagement within and across services

    Course outcome: Participants are able to identify and employ strategies to promote and support parent engagement within and across services.

    Cost: $420

    Duration: 1 day

    For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au

 

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute

The Centre for Community Child Health is a department of The Royal Children’s Hospital and a research group of Murdoch Childrens Research Institute.