Bringing up Great Kids Facilitator Training- F2F

Learn how to facilitate the Bringing Up Great Kids Program for parents, including the evidence it draws on, its underpinning framework and the tools it uses. Essential for would be facilitators.

This practical one day workshop provides participants with the opportunity to learn how to successfully establish and run the ‘Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program’.

It is the prerequisite level of training for individual professionals to be able to have access to the ‘Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program’ and become a registered facilitator.  All registered facilitators will receive access to the ‘Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program’ manual, relevant activities and resources within the registration cost of the workshop.

This workshop is run by experienced parenting practitioners with hands on experience in implementing the ‘Bringing Up Great Kids Parenting Program’.

This training is suitable for all professionals working with parents in either an individual or group context.  While the program focuses on primary aged children, it can be adapted for infants and adolescents.

On completion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of reflective and mindful parenting
• Identify the key concepts of the Bringing Up Great Kids parenting program in the context of kinship and foster carers
• Know how to set up program criteria for specific members of their parenting community
• Be able to effectively implement the program and its activities
• Learn how to adapt the program to meet the specific needs of the parents it is being used with
• Know how to use it with individual parents and parent groups
• Understand how to evaluate the program and its outcomes

Face to Face

All training sessions delivered by the Australian Childhood Foundation are facilitated by members of our Therapeutic Services and Professional Education Services teams.  These staff members are qualified and experienced professionals who are engaging in trauma informed practice with children, young people and families across Australia.  Training team members draw on their practice wisdom and current experiences to contextualise the training content to practice challenges and successes.  They are able to link the theory and research to the therapeutic reach of the organisation’s programs throughout each training program.