| Target audience: | Professionals working with parents |
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| Theme/subject matter: | General Parenting, First Time Parenting, Behaviour Management, Post-separation parenting, Drugs-misuse/prevention, Strengthening Families, buidling a strong famiy identity, parenting aloner; parenting through crisis; self-esteem; parenting teenagers. |
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| Method of delivery: | Group work, One-to-one work, This programme can be adapted to a variety of environments. |
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| Programme aims: | After taking part in this training for trainers, participants will be able to: Plan, design and deliver a ten-week Positive Parenting Programme; Understand the theory behind the Positive Parenting Manual; Be familiar with a range of approaches for managing difficult behaviour in children while raising self-esteem when parenting alone; 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; and Support families to parent trough difficult times. |
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| Resources used: | Paula Lonergan, Director of Professional Development, One Family. Evaluated by the Family Support Agency and listed as Good Practice. Accredited by One Family. |
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