Accredited Parenting Courses for Professionals

Are you a professional working with one-parent families, parents who are separating or separated and/or their children? Founded as Cherish in 1972, One Family offers decades of experience and expertise to professionals supporting one-parent families.

CHANGING FAMILIES: SUPPORTING CHILDREN’S NEEDS WHEN PARENTS SEPARATE

Course Summary

The aim of the training is to support your front-line staff to feel more confident as they work with children and parents with the experience of separation/divorce and work through the many complex and challenging issues that can present post separation/divorce. The programme will have two parts.

Part A: E-Course – Family Communications – Separating Well for Children. This e course has been developed by One Family for front line workers. It contains three modules. In each module there are 4 units. The course brings the learner through concepts of family change in the past 50 years into the needs and rights of children post separation/divorce.

Part B: This section of the training will engage learners in three interactive workshops (4 Oct, 11 Oct and 18 Oct from 9.30am – 1pm via zoom), allowing you opportunities to:

  • Engage with other experts working in the field (Guest Speakers)
  • Discuss case examples set by the facilitator with your colleagues in small groups
  • Explore and develop your understanding of key concepts relating to separating/divorced families
  • Create referral pathways with colleagues working in the sector

Learn more about the programme and how to register here.

Course Summary

FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS: COPING WITH FAMILY LIFE AND COMMUNICATION WITH TEENAGERS

Course Summary

This Professional Development programme prepares trainers and people who work with parents, children and/or families to design and deliver One Family’s Family Communications programme to groups or in one-to-one work. The emphasis is towards those parenting alone, sharing parenting, and parenting through family change such as separation. The comprehensive manual includes 15 modules, all of which give a step-by-step guide and handouts for facilitating each session.

Course Details

Date: TBC

Duration: 15-18 hours

Venue : Hybrid Model (E-learning combined with Zoom or in-person sessions)

Cost: TBC

Our professional development courses are CPD accredited trainings with Social Care Ireland.

Please read One Family’s Cancellation Policy.

After taking part in this course, you will be able to:

  • Plan, design and deliver a 6 to 12 week Family Communications: Coping with Family Life and Communication with Teenagers programme.
  • Understand the theory behind the Family Communications: Coping with Family Life and Communication with Teenagers manual.
  • Understand and coach parents in the principles of clear and direct communication in the home for problem-solving.
  • Support parents in implementing and managing changes in the home
  • Support parents in parenting teenagers.
  • Resource parents in creating a positive environment at home.
  • Understand family diversity today.
  • Support parents in parenting when they are: separating or divorcing, sharing parenting, parenting in a multicultural society.
  • Resource parents to rebuild family life after a crisis.
  • Support one-parent and separated families to encourage family pride and a strong family identity.

POSITIVE PARENTING FOR CHANGING FAMILIES

Course Summary

This intensive three day manualised professional development programme has just been re-developed. Its gives professionals tools they need to support parents to build strong relationships with their children and manage difficult behavior.

Course Details

Date: TBC

Duration: 15-18 hours

Venue : Hybrid Model (E-learning combined with Zoom or in-person sessions)

Cost: TBC

Our professional development courses are CPD accredited trainings with Social Care Ireland.

Please read One Family’s Cancellation Policy.

What makes this programme different?

  • Specifically supports people parenting alone, sharing parenting, and separating families but is suitable for use when working with other family units also.
  • Is unique each time it is delivered as it is designed to meet the needs of participants.
  • Does not refer to model families, but draws from the experience of participants, enabling professionals to engage with the parent as the expert of their own family situation.
  • Enables professionals to engage parents to reflect on strengths in order to identify how they will make positive changes in their relationships and in their home.
  • Is evidence-informed, rooted in family support theories particularly parenting and ‘good enough parent’ and has been designed to fill a vacuum for a parenting programme to support non-traditional families.
  • Can be adapted by professionals for use in one to one work as well as with groups of parents and families.

After taking part in this training you will be able to:

  • Understand the theory behind the Positive Parenting for Changing Families manual.
  • Be familiar with a range of approaches for managing difficult behaviour in children while raising self-esteem.
  • Support parents in implementing these approaches.
  • Support parents to develop strong relationships with their children.
  • Know the provisions of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
  • Support parents in parenting when they are: separating or divorcing, sharing parenting, parenting in a multicultural society, parenting alone.
  • Support parents to talk to their children about their family situations.
  • Support families to parent through difficult times.
  • Design and deliver a ten-week Positive Parenting for Changing Families programme (should you opt for One Family Accreditation).

Our professional development courses are CPD accredited by Social Care Ireland.