CCCH offers both online and face to face courses on the Family Partnership Model.
Online
Face to face
Online courses
Introduction to the Family Partnership Model: Building and sustaining relationships with parents
A series
of facilitated seminars (via Zoom platform- hosted by MCRI) that introduce
practitioners to the Family Partnership Model with particular focus on building and sustaining a partnership
relationship with parents.
Date: TBC
Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm and 1.00pm - 2.30pm (Week 1)
11.00am - 1.10pm (Week 2)
Delivery: Online via Zoom (3 sessions over 2 weeks)
Cost: $375.00 incl GST
Registration: Click here to register
This series of facilitated on-line seminars developed with the kind support of the ERDI Foundation are informed by the content
of the Family Partnership Model and have been adapted to on-line delivery. They
are designed to be delivered sequentially with a consistent group of
participants, preferably in groups of nine or twelve to enable breakout groups
of three.
Content of sessions:
- An introductory
session – Why engage parents? What we know about parent engagement
- Introduction
to the Family Partnership Model
- Skills
involved in engaging and helping families
- Review
of the course and reflecting on my practice
Family Partnership Model Community of Practice
Family Partnership Model Community of Practice 2024
The training team at the
Centre for Community Child Health are offering an opportunity for practitioners
who have completed the Family Partnership Model Foundation Course to join an
FPM Community of Practice. Each sessions topic will be negotiated with the
participants based on the groups FPM experiences, challenges and questions.
This will provide participants an opportunity to gather with likeminded
practitioners to discuss components of the Family Partnership Model and share
practice experiences.
There will be 4 x 1-hour online sessions offered during
2024 and these will be free of charge. Please note these workshops are designed
for FPM trained practitioners not FPM facilitators or supervisors.
Explore our Community of Practice learning opportunities
Dates: 21 March, 20 May, 31 July, 24 October 2024
Time: 3.00pm – 4.30pm (AEDT)
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Cost: No charge
Registration: Click here to register
Family Partnership Model - Facilitators’ Refresher
The Family Partnership Model (FPM) Foundation course is complex
and requires skilled facilitation. Facilitators model the skills and
processes of working in partnership both implicitly & explicitly.
Participants can come to recognise that the tasks of helping are directly
parallel to those of facilitating the Foundation course.
In this refresher participants will revisit:
- the skills &
techniques of facilitation,
- the parallel between the
facilitator/participants relationships and the helper/parent relationship
- content of the FPM
foundation course that can sometimes be difficult to facilitate
effectively.
Date: no dates currently scheduled
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm and 1.30pm - 3.30pm
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Cost: $250.00 incl GST
Registration:
Family Partnership Model Foundation Course
Usually a five day face-to-face course, this on-line version
of the Family Partnership Model Foundation (FPM) Course has been designed for
practitioners who are not able to travel to access the in person course. It
will suit remote and isolated practitioners, and organisations that would
usually find difficulty in providing this training for their staff.
Dates:
no dates currently scheduled
Time: 11.30am - 1.30pm and 2.30pm - 4.30pm (each day)
Embedding the model in practice
Dates: no dates currently scheduled
Time: 11.30am - 1.00pm AEDT (each day)
Certificate of completion is provided following participation in both the follow up sessions
Delivery: Online via Zoom
Cost: $1,265.00 incl GST
Registration:
This
course involves all components of the full foundation course including:
- Exploration of the theories and concepts that
inform the FPM
- Consideration of the application of the model in
working with families
- Familiarisation with the FPM practice resources
- Opportunities to practice the application of FPM
practice resources within the parent/practitioner relationship
- Readings and workplace tasks
- Two follow up reflective practice sessions in
the months following the course
- Access to ongoing information exchange within an
on-line FPM community of practice.
This course comprises 23 hours of on-line facilitated
sessions and an additional 10 hours (minimum) of out of session reading and
workplace practice tasks.
Family Partnership Model
reflective supervision
Opportunity to listen to a FREE 60 minute presentation online on the Family Partnership Model Reflective Supervision
We know that new learning is kept alive and
practiced when professionals return to their workplaces and are supported to
recall and reflect on those things they have learnt. Many practitioners who
complete Family Partnership Model (FPM) training find it difficult to
access a reflective supervision model that understands and complements FPM. The
authors of FPM are insistent that the best possible outcomes for practitioners, and the families they support, can be realised when FPM practitioners access regular supervision
that is based on FPM. This seminar will provide an overview of the components
of FPM supervision, the resources used, and examples of how it is applied in
practice.
This seminar would be of most value to those
practitioners who are interested in or currently providing supervision focussed
on the Family Partnership Model.
About the facilitator
Paul Prichard
Paul
Prichard’s career has focused predominantly on the provision of services for
individuals and families who view the service system with suspicion. He has
made a significant contribution to the family support field influencing
approaches to parent engagement across Australia. His work has culminated in a
PhD titled Transformations in parenting: New possibilities through peer-led
interventions.
For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model Supervision Course
Usually
a five day face-to-face course, this on-line version of the Family Partnership
Model Supervision (FPM) Course has been designed for practitioners who are not
able to travel to access the in person course. It will suit remote and isolated
practitioners, and organisations that would usually find difficulty in
providing this training for their staff.
Dates: TBC
Time: 11.30am
- 1.30pm and 2.30pm - 4.30pm (each day)
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Certificate
of completion to be provided on completion
Delivery: Online
via Zoom
Cost: $1,160.00
incl GST (without FPM Reflective Practice Handbook), and $1,257.00 incl GST (with FPM Reflective Practice Handbook)
For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au
This
course comprises 23 hours of on-line facilitated sessions and an additional 10
hours (minimum) of out of session reading and workplace practice tasks.
The
Family Partnership Model emphasises the need for highly skilled professional
communication and structured goal-orientated support for families. It
also assumes that a respectful partnership between the FPM practitioner and
those who support their reflective practice is a powerful restorative support,
and the means by which reflective practice can be most successfully reviewed
and facilitated. A partnership relationship provides a base for the FPM
practitioner to explore difficulties they face, to clarify these and to develop
the most helpful and effective strategies.
Guiding
a practitioner through reflective practice is a form of supervision.
Supervision
is ‘a quintessential interpersonal interaction with the general goal that
one person, the supervisor, meets with another, the supervisee, in an effort to
make the latter more effective in helping people’ (Hess, 1980:25).
The
FPM Supervisor Course prepares skilled practitioners to be able to facilitate
reflective supervision for practitioners who apply the FPM in their work.
Those
eligible for participation in the FPM Supervisor Course include:
- Practitioners who have completed the Family
Partnership Model foundation course and used the approach in clinical
practice.
- Professionals/mental health practitioners
with considerable clinical knowledge and experience of working with the
models and concepts contained within the Family Partnership approach, who
have responsibility for supervising other staff either individually or in
groups, who are using the approach in their practice.
The
course is not assessed, and certificates of completion will be issued. However,
since the course is carefully constructed to build each week, successful
completion is dependent upon attending all sessions. Missing more than
two sessions will significantly reduce the understanding and value of
subsequent sessions and will constitute non-completion.
The
course is tiring and challenging. We ask participants to embark on a journey of
change through self reflection, experiential learning and knowledge acquisition
to enhance and develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective supervisors,
and therefore we suggest that participants give themselves an hour or so of
quiet relaxation after each day.
Course
outcome: This course equips participants with an understanding of
the functions, processes and skills required to provide supervision (individual
and groups) to practitioners in the style of the Family Partnership Model
(Davis & Day, 2010; Day, Eliis & Harris, 2015). It encourages
participants to reflect on their own experiences and learn to deal effectively
with new supervisory situations, and to find new ways of managing familiar
challenges (White, 2002:11).
Overview of the Family
Partnership Model
Opportunity to listen to a FREE
45 minute presentation online on the Family Partnership Model
The Family Partnership Model has been used successfully in Australia Since the early 2000’s. This evidence based relational change model emanates from the UK and has emerged as a leading approach in supporting practitioners and their organisations, in a wide variety of
contexts and settings, to work in partnership with families. It does this through supporting an improved understanding of the processes and skills of helping; more effective use of practitioner’s technical expertise; and, the provision of resources and tools that enable individuals to be purposefully
reflective in their work with parents and colleagues.
This short introduction to the Family Partnership Model will provide you with a brief overview of the model, current Australian approaches used in training practitioners, and what we know to be important in successfully embedding the model within organisations.
About the facilitator
Paul Prichard
Paul Prichard’s career has focused predominantly on the provision of services for individuals and families who view the service system with suspicion. He has made a significant contribution to the family support field influencing approaches to parent
engagement across Australia. His work has culminated in a PhD titled Transformations in parenting: New possibilities through peer-led interventions.
Face-to-face courses
Family Partnership Model Facilitator course
The aim of this course is to enable those who have completed the Family Partnership Model Foundation course to become Family Partnership Model Foundation course facilitators.
Two Family Partnership Model facilitators will work with participants over the six days to:
- develop their understanding of the theoretical and skills base for Family Partnership
- gain an overview of the structure, content, method and skills used in facilitating the Family Partnership Model program
- observe facilitators demonstrate the various skills and methods in facilitating Family Partnership Model Training and gain feedback and experience in facilitating these sessions.
The training will be interactive and will require the involvement of all participants. Participants are encouraged to explore and reflect on their knowledge and understanding throughout the course, and will be given opportunity to practice their skills and gain constructive feedback.
Participants are not assessed, but as the course is constructed to build on prior learning, successful completion is dependent on attendance.
Course outcome: Participants will be able to train others to use the Family Partnership Model in partnership with parents/clients in their communities.
Dates: TBC
Cost: $2,150
Duration: 6 days
Venue: TBC Parkville, North Melbourne
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm (each day)
For further information, please email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model Foundation Course
Would you like to engage with families more effectively to achieve positive outcomes? Do you want to enhance your skills and confidence? Are you ready to be professionally and personally challenged?
This course explores the evidence-based Family Partnership Model and uses activities to build participants’ skills. The Family Partnership Model is an innovative approach based upon an explicit model of the ‘helping’ process that demonstrates how specific ‘helper’ qualities and skills, when used in partnership, can enable parents and families to overcome their difficulties, build strengths and resilience and fulfil their goals more effectively. A number of research trials have demonstrated the positive benefits of this model to the developmental progress of children, parent-child interaction and the psychological functioning of parents, families and children.
The course explores all aspects of the model, including ways to work with families to identify their needs, to build a genuine and respectful ‘partnership’, to set goals and to help families to achieve these goals. The course takes an adult learning approach which values, recognises and builds on the experience that participants bring with them. During the course, participants are encouraged to actively practise their skills in a supportive learning environment.
Course outcome: Participants will develop their knowledge, skills and confidence in the processes of the evidence-based Family Partnership Model, including engaging and relating well to parents, and effectively supporting them to achieve jointly identified outcomes.
Dates: TBC
Cost: $1,650 incl GST (with Reflective Practice Handbook), and $1580 incl GST (without Reflective Practice Handbook)
Duration: 5 days
Venue: TBC Parkville, North Melbourne
Time: 9.00am - 4.30pm (each day)
For further information, please email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model Refresher
This one-day Family Partnership Model (FPM) refresher gives you the opportunity to build on your current understanding of the FPM. It has been designed to elevate your understanding and confidence in you work with families.
You will revisit core components of the FPM, with the aim to further enhance your knowledge and skills in practice. You will be invited to share your personal reflections and learnings from your application of the model. You will also get the chance to explore the FPM Reflective Practice Handbook and the practice resources which have been specifically designed to support the implementation of FPM.
You will get the chance to explore, connect and discover with like-minded colleagues in an adult learning environment, which supports and celebrates peer to peer learning through explorations and discussions.
Date: TBC
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Delivery: face-to-face
Venue: TBC Parkville, North Melbourne
Cost: $360 incl GST (without FPM Reflective Practice Handbook), and $470.00 incl GST (with FPM Reflective Practice Handbook)
For further information, please email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model Supervision Course
The Family Partnership Model emphasises the need for highly skilled professional communication and structured goal-orientated support for families. It also assumes that a respectful partnership between the FPM practitioner and those who support their reflective practice is a powerful restorative support, and the
means by which reflective practice can be most successfully reviewed and facilitated. A partnership relationship provides a base for the FPM practitioner to explore difficulties they face, to clarify these and to develop the most helpful and effective strategies.
Guiding a practitioner through reflective practice is a form of supervision.
Supervision is ‘a quintessential interpersonal
interaction with the general goal that one person, the supervisor, meets with
another, the supervisee, in an effort to make the latter more effective in
helping people’ (Hess, 1980:25).
The FPM Supervisor Course prepares skilled practitioners to be able to facilitate reflective supervision for practitioners who apply the FPM in their work.
Those eligible for participation in the FPM Supervisor Course include:
- Practitioners who have completed the Family Partnership Model foundation course and used the approach in clinical practice.
- Professionals/mental health practitioners with considerable clinical knowledge and experience of working with the models and concepts contained within the Family Partnership approach, who have responsibility for supervising other staff either individually or in groups, who are
using the approach in their practice.
The course is not assessed, and certificates of completion will be issued. However, since the course is carefully constructed to build each week, successful completion is dependent upon attending all sessions. Missing more than two half days will significantly reduce the understanding and value of subsequent
sessions and will constitute non-completion.
The course is tiring and challenging. We ask participants to embark on a journey of change through self reflection, experiential learning and knowledge acquisition to enhance and develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes for effective supervisors, and therefore we suggest
that participants give themselves an hour or so of quiet relaxation after each day.
Course outcome: This course equips participants with an understanding of the functions, processes and skills required to provide supervision (individual and groups) to practitioners in the style of the Family Partnership Model (Davis & Day, 2010; Day, Eliis & Harris, 2015). It
encourages participants to reflect on their own experiences and learn to deal effectively with new supervisory situations, and to find new ways of managing familiar challenges (White, 2002:11).
What previous participants have said about the Family Partnership Model Supervisor course
“I will use my new understanding/learnings to advocate for FPM supervision integration into organisations”
“I am more confident now in bringing the theoretical underpinnings of FPM to support supervision”
“This has been the most wonderful course and will have a profound impact on the way I practice. It is the foundation of what I will do and will make a difference to the people I work with.”
“This course has strengthened my commitment and increased my knowledge and confidence in embedding the FPM in my work life.”
“A fantastic course. Highly insightful, inspiring, thorough, thought provoking and fun.”
Dates: no dates currently scheduled (see online course above)
Cost: $1,550 incl GST (with Reflective Practice Handbook), and $1480 incl GST (without Reflective Practice Handbook)
Duration: 5 days
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm (each day)
For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model: Understanding and applying
the model in organisational contexts
A three day course which explores both the content of the Family Partnership Model (FPM) and its application within a management context.
Aims
- Enable participants to work more effectively with parents/families/and staff by helping them to develop the resources they need to improve their current/future situations.
- Develop a clear understanding of the FPM Helping Process, and to develop and/or practise the skills of engaging parents/others and developing effective relationships with them.
- To explore the application of the FPM from a management perspective
- Enable participants to understand the application of the FPM in supervision
Discourses on leadership in service settings have regularly explored interpersonal communication skills, and reflection on practice, as attributes of leadership. Effective leaders should also be able to exercise these skills in facilitating a process that enables others to plan and
implement change both within organisations and in direct work with families.
Some families experience difficulty in engaging with services. There are a variety of reasons for this including complex needs experienced by some families, time pressures experienced by professionals, and difficulty services experience in providing opportunities to respond appropriately to parents.
This three day course is modelled on the successful Family Partnership Model (Davis & Day, 2010) and helps those in leadership positions to identify and explore the necessary attributes of engaging leadership and the processes for enabling those whom they support to implement change.
The course is designed to provide reflection, discussion and peer to peer practice opportunities in relation to the skills, qualities and processes necessary to engage with and work in partnership with families and support parents and practitioners to plan and implement change.
This course will also enable managers to identify the steps involved in implementing and embedding the Family Partnership Model across a team of practitioners.
In preparation for this course, here are some questions that educational leaders can reflect on:
- How effective am I in relating to all families?
- How do I know this?
- How would I want families to experience all contact with our service?
- What does partnership between families and our service look like?
- How does my practice model reinforce partnership – for our team of staff and the families we support?
The course is delivered over three days with days one and two back to back and day three a few weeks later.
Cost: $1,027 incl GST (with Reflective Practice Handbook) or $950.00 incl GST (without Reflective Practice Handbook)
Duration: 3 days
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au
Family Partnership Model Reflective Practice Workshop
This one-day workshop is a follow-up to the five-day Family Partnership Model Foundation Course and will explore reflective practice as a strategy for keeping helpful change at the forefront of family partnership practice. The workshop provides participants with an opportunity to:
- revisit core components of the Family Partnership Model (FPM)
- share reflections and learning from the application of the Family Partnership Model
- reflect on and explore the FPM Reflective Practice Handbook, including its practice resources designed to support the implementation of FPM in practice.
- consider the Family Partnership Model as a framework for reflective practice in the workplace.
Course outcome: Participants will reflect on and review their FPM practice, how this can be supported by the Family Partnership Reflective Practice Handbook and deepen their understanding of reflective practice as a strategy.
Cost: $320 (incl GST) or $397 (incl GST) with Reflective Practice Handbook
Duration: 1 day
Time: 9.30am - 4.30pm
Duration: 1 day
For enquiries email training.ccch@rch.org.au