Parents Plus Autumn Programme Training Calendar 2024
Develop your skills to improve outcomes for children and families with the Parents Plus suite of evidence-based parenting and mental health programme trainings for professionals – Autumn 2024 calendar
Do you want to develop your professional skills to improve outcomes for children, adolescents, and families?
From the early years to adulthood, and also supporting complex needs, the Parents Plus suite of evidence-based parenting and mental health programme trainings for professionals will equip you with the skills, practical strategies, and ongoing support, to improve outcomes for the families and children you work with.
What makes Parents Plus suite of professional programme trainings so unique?
Backed by over 27 years of research, the Parents Plus programmes are important universal, early intervention, and prevention interventions, and have been developed in partnership with services and families, for services and families. Our programmes are tailored to the needs of local communities and can be delivered one-to-one, in groups or online, reaching even the most at-risk or geographically isolated families.
Parents Plus proven programme trainings for professionals stand out for their unique blend of evidence-based approaches, practical tools, and a supportive learning environment. The training programmes provide comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge, equipping professionals with the skills to make a positive impact on children, adolescents, and families.
What sets Parents Plus Charity apart is our emphasis on ongoing support and collaboration with services supporting children, parents and families.
Evidence shows that supervision and supporting facilitators through the accreditation process are integral to services maintaining improved outcomes for the families they work with, and why our charity provides two free supervision sessions to each professional trained in our programmes.
Our collaborative approach also ensures that our team of experts work closely with services to build their capacity to evaluate outcomes, as well as roll out the programmes across agencies and regions.
Explore the programme options available for Autumn 2024:
Parents Plus Children’s Programme training 16th, 17th, 18th, 23rd & 24th September 2024 (9.15am – 1pm)
The Parents Plus Children’s Programme provides a practical, solution-focused set of tools that draws on parents’ strengths and aims to empower them to manage their family challenges more confidently. It is suitable for parents of children aged 6-11 years, including parents of children with additional needs. This training focuses on equipping practitioners with a strong set of solution focused facilitation skills to deliver the programme to parents and support them to manage behaviour and emotional problems, build their children’s self-esteem and confidence, reduce their own stress as parents, problem-solve with their children and establish positive daily routines.
Parents Plus Early Years Programme training 9th, 10th, 12th, 16th & 17th September 2024 (9:15am-1:30pm)
The Early Years Programme is a comprehensive training course for professionals working with young children and families. Gain practical tools and evidence-based techniques to empower parents to strengthen parent-child relationships, nurture social and emotional well-being, increase school readiness, and positively address behaviours that can challenge.
Parents Plus Working Things Out Programme training 17th, 18th & 19th September 2024 (9.15am-1.30pm)
Prepare to support adolescents facing social, emotional, and behavioural challenges with the Parents Plus Working Things Out Programme. Develop your skills in providing this structured CBT based intervention to young people, with strategies to enhance their emotional regulation, problem-solving skills, communication techniques, and build resilience. The Working Things Out Programme aims to help young with positive decision-making, conflict resolution, and improving their relationships. In this training you will also develop your practice in delivering the programme both individually and in small groups.
Parents Plus Parenting When Separated Programme training 12th, 13th and 19th September 2024 (9.15am-1.30pm)
Join the Parenting When Separated Programme and gain the skills to support parents going through separation or divorce. Learn to navigate the challenges of co-parenting, promote effective communication, manage conflicts, and create child-centred environments. Empower parents to develop parenting plans, establish consistent routines, and foster positive parent-teacher relationships. The training gives a solid grounding in Solution Focused and Strengths Based practice approaches, which underpin the programme.
Parents Plus ADHD Children’s Programme training 25th, 26th, 27th and 30th September & 2nd October 2024 (9.15am-1.30pm)
In the Parents Plus ADHD Children’s Programme training you will gain an in-depth understanding of supporting families on the ADHD journey. The training provides you with a range of strengths-based tools to help parents and their children with self-regulation, managing attention and impulsivity challenges, building more positive peer and family relationships, improving social interactions and developing collaborative relationships with their child’s school. The training also builds effective skills in the Solution Focused practice model.
The Adolescents Programme: Empowering Teenagers for Success
The Parents Plus Adolescent Programme aims to empower parents to manage the many challenges families and young people face in today’s world. In this training you will get a strong grounding in delivering this 8 session parenting programme with small groups of parents along with using the evidence based material individually with families. The focus is on a collaborative strengths-based approach to building parents own skills for effective communication, family problem-solving, emotional regulation, and resilience-building.
Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme training 26th and 27th September & 3rd and 4th October 2024 (9am-1.30pm)
The Parents Plus Healthy Families Programme covers a range of topics pertinent to modern family life and the challenges therein. This training equips professionals with the skills to support families in promoting positive parenting, communication, overall well-being and healthy habits with their children. The training focuses on building positive parent-child relationships, creating good family routines including mealtimes, sleep, screen time, developing positive family problem solving, good physical and mental health, managing technology challenges and other specific changes around health and well-being.
Parents Plus Special Needs Programme training 14th, 15th, 16th and 17th October 2024 (9.15am-1.15pm)
This first-in-the-world evidence-based programme for families rearing an adolescent with an intellectual disability was created to help parents to manage challenges, improve their family’s well-being and strengthen their links with other parents. Through training in the Special Needs Programme, you will learn how to empower parents to positively manage the many hidden challenges that can be common for parents raising an adolescent with an intellectual disability, as well as improve the well-being of all family members and prepare young people for future transitions and adulthood.
Book today!
Our team of experts work closely with services across Community, Mental Health, Disability and Education, to build their capacity and skills to deliver and evaluate our proven interventions, tailored to the needs of local communities.
If you would like to discuss booking onsite training and supervision of your team (15 or more), and/or tailored support in the roll-out and evaluation of the programmes to ensure effective community-wide delivery, please contact our Impact Lead Vicki Byrne at vicki@parentsplus.ie
