Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each course is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by our experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
We hold trainings regularly at our Kentish Town training centre, however we can also arrange any of the trainings in house for a group of practitioners.
Delivering to parents with learning difficulties
After the successful development of a parent manual for parents with learning disabilities, the Race Equality Foundation has now developed a course for facilitators to support them in providing a more inclusive and accessible service for parents with learning difficulties. Among other things, the course will advise facilitators on:
- the length of sessions
- appropriate activities to encourage parent participation
- effective use of the easy-read text and images parent manual
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Delivering to parents of under fives
This course is for facilitators who work in early year’s settings and wish to make sure that their delivery of SFSC meets the needs of parents with under-5s. The course draws on a newly developed set of facilitator notes and resources which supplement the existing curriculum and help facilitators tailor their delivery to this group. The course will bring together practitioners from this sector to:
- explore the needs of parents of young children
- introduce the new course materials and how to use them
- understand the developmental stages of children under 5
- develop confidence in tailoring the SFSC curriculum whilst maintaining programme fidelity
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Effective group work
This workshop tackles some of the tougher challenges of running a group, by helping experienced facilitators to:
- further develop and consolidate their group working skills
- implement effective group work strategies
- understand and guide groups with different dynamics
- reassure parents who feel apprehensive about sharing their experiences
- resolve potential conflict situations between group members
- provide a safe, non-threatening and enjoyable environment for participants
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Implementing the programme
This ‘solution-focused’ workshop is designed for recently trained SFSC facilitators.
The workshop helps facilitators to:
- tackle possible problems and questions frequently asked by first time SFSC facilitators
- develop a framework for planning, implementing and effectively running SFSC
- explore co-facilitation and group work
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Managing challenging participants in a group work setting
The workshop helps facilitators to:
- tackle possible problems and questions frequently asked by first time or inexperienced SFSC facilitators
- develop a framework for planning, implementing and effectively running SFSC
- explore co-facilitation and group work
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Managing the co-facilitation process
This skills-based course explores best practice strategies for managing and enhancing co-facilitation, examining:
- the value of co-facilitation
- ways to build effective relationships with parents and other facilitators
- methods to increase confidence and competence in co-facilitation
- facilitators’ own strengths, to raise awareness of what they can bring to the process
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Quality assurance and self-assessment in delivering SFSC
This course is to introduce a recent addition to the SFSC quality assurance system; a self-assessment tool which helps facilitators and delivering agencies reflect on what they do well and how to improve their work with parents. Put together with the existing paper collection and programme visits, this tool will complete an extensive QA system and an evidenced based approach. Participants will:
- receive the self-assessment guide and standards and work through them with trainers
- explore good practice in developing an evidence portfolio to demonstrate quality provision
- explore the value of programme fidelity and its relationship to QA
Review SFSC delivery and their own facilitation strengths
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by two experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
SFSC as a violence prevention tool
This workshop examines the violence prevention aspects of the SFSC programme, helping facilitators to:
- explore the impact of violence upon families and relationships, from both a historical and contemporary perspective
- share good practice when ‘safeguarding’ and promoting a violence-free lifestyle
- overcome the challenges they may encounter when discussing violence
- boost their confidence in delivering SFSC, even when facing opposition from parents, practitioners or their own values
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
SFSC refresher course
This two day workshop is intended for practitioners who have previously completed the five day Strengthening Families Strengthening Communities training but have had a break before or between delivering the programme to parents. The refresher workshop will also help facilitators who do not feel confident about their understanding or delivery of the curriculum.
The workshop aims to:
- revisit the evidence and concepts that inform SFSC
- review the SFSC curriculum and the methods used to deliver it to parents
- provide an opportunity to practice delivery
It will include:
- interactive exercises
- exploration of evidence on parenting and the outcomes for children
- modelling of effective practice in programme delivery
- signposting to other support and resources
- opportunities for individuals to practice and reflect on how they can implement best practice
Participants will receive a free copy of the latest edition of the SFSC facilitator manual, worth £100.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
SFSC: Reducing Parental Conflict advanced training course
The Advanced Training course provides facilitators with the tools to deliver the SFSC programme to parents with a greater degree of focus on adult relationships and the impact of conflict within the co-parenting relationship.
It builds on the SFSC core training and provides practitioners with the skills and understanding to meet the needs of parents experiencing conflict whether they are living together or living apart. As well as providing a written fully mapped supplementary manual which addresses parental conflict across the programme, it provides a range of additional video, web based and written resources that facilitators can access to support their delivery.
The training covers:
- Explorations of strengths and vulnerabilities and strategies to cope with life’s ‘stresses’
- What conflict looks like for families ‘from silence to violence’
- Communication: constructive versus destructive
- Empathy, the other perspective and managing anger
- Community support both now and in the future to avoid ‘crisis’
- How children are harmed by different forms of conflict in the short and long term
- Importance of the parent/child relationship as a protective factor for children
Practitioners need to have completed the five-day core training before attending this one day course. All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Signposting: Where to now?
This workshop outlines strategies to support parents during and after the SFSC programme, helping facilitators to:
- explore issues raised by parents in SFSC groups
- identify needs that can be met by the group, and those which should be referred to external agencies
- identify local agencies to which referrals can be made
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Start young people’s programme
Start is a training programme for children and young people aged between 10-16. Based on the success of the Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities parenting programme, this three day course prepares participants to deliver the Start programme, by:
- familiarising participants with the concepts and curriculum of the programme
- giving techniques for working with children and young people
- introducing co-facilitation methods appropriate to Start
The workshop is delivered by two experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Tackling extremism and the radicalisation of young people
This workshop supports Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities Facilitators to ensure their group parenting work supports parents to tackle extremism and the radicalisation of young people.
Facilitators will be shown how to use the SFSC curriculum to address issues of extremism and radicalisation, by linking to the core SFSC aim of promoting healthy violence free communities. Emphasis will be placed on the role of parents in safeguarding children.
This training is useful to all SFSC facilitators, but may be particularly useful for facilitators delivering programmes as part of a Prevent or Community Safety scheme of work.
All participants will receive detailed guidance notes to supplement the existing curriculum and other resources including additional slides.
Working with black and minority ethnic families
This workshop is particularly targeted at practitioners (in a range of settings) and policy and strategic managers with responsibility for engaging black and minority ethnic families within mainstream services. The workshop aims to:
- give participants an overview of key research about the experiences and support needs of black and minority ethnic parents and children
- provide an understanding of ‘what works’ derived from the evidence base
- signpost participants to sources of further information
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
Delivering SFSC in areas affected by Gangs, Guns and Knife crime
This one day workshop examines the violence prevention aspects of the SFSC programme and how they can meet the needs of families living in areas affected by gang, gun and knife crime.
The workshop aims to:
- explore the evidence on community violence, including gang information
- explore the impact of violence upon families and relationships, from both a historical and contemporary perspective
- share good practice when safeguarding and promoting a violence-free lifestyle
- overcome the challenges facilitators may encounter when discussing violence
- boost facilitator confidence in delivering SFSC, even when facing opposition from parents, practitioners or their own values
work through the film and written resource to ensure easy use when delivery programmes.
This one day course will include presentations of research evidence, opportunities for individuals to reflect upon possible practical and strategic developments in their own work, exploration of dedicated film and written resources.
Our advanced training workshops give trained facilitators the opportunity to enhance their delivery skills. Each workshop session is grounded in the context and ethos of SFSC and offers trained facilitators continued personal and professional development.
All workshops are delivered by experienced trainers, using a variety of experiential and participative learning methods.
Please note this course is only available to trained SFSC facilitators.
