Future Childcare Training

handling children’s behaviour parenting programme

venue: Rugby Lions Rugby Football Club, Webb Ellis Road, Rugby, CV22 7AU
price: £195 per person + VAT (refreshments & lunch included)
dates: 13th & 14th April 2010
time: 9:15am until 4:00pm on both days

If you would like to attend this course please click on ‘attend a regional course’ from the left hand menu to download our application form.

about the course:

This two-day course teaches childcare workers how to use our ‘Future For Families’ Handling Children’s Behaviour Parenting Programme with parents and carers in their community, helping them to manage their children’s behaviour more effectively.

This course is suitable for all childcare professionals who work with parents and carers on how to handle children’s behaviour. Our ‘Future for Families’ approach has been tried and tested for over 25 years and takes into account the needs of children and parents across the UK. We look at the latest political messages about parenting, behaviour and education, and consider how these factors impact on family life in 21st century Britain. This course has been recommended nationally to the Sure Start and Flying Start initiatives.

During this two-day course we will train workers in the use of our ‘Future for Families’ material and enable them to work with as many as 20 parents at any one time. The materials can also be used with parents on an individual basis. Following the training workers are provided with a handbook which gives a step-by-step guide to running each parent session. Workers also receive handout materials which can be photocopied and given to parents at each session.

We can train up to 25 childcare professionals on this course, often jointly training health workers, social workers, nursery officers, children’s centre workers, family support workers, family placement workers, teachers and community workers, who work in the same community. The advantage of this type of training is that you can develop a joint and consistent approach to families in your area. Future Childcare Training Limited requires that only professionals who have undertaken the two-day training course can deliver this material to parent groups. The course is practice based and offers a practical down to earth approach which builds confidence.

course aims and objectives:

This course aims to enable participants to gain a working knowledge of the ‘Future for Families’ Handling Children’s Behaviour parenting programme. After successful completion of the course the participants will be qualified to run their own 10 week course for parents and produce programmes for individual families ranging from low to high level need. The course aims to enable participants to learn by interaction and fun.

By the end of the course participants would be expected to have:

* An understanding of the scope of the materials and its application in both groups and individual settings.

* A working knowledge of the ‘Future for Families’ Handling Children’s Behaviour material.

* A way to work that aims to prevent family breakdown and keeps children safe.

* Familiarity with the exercises and techniques used on the course and an understanding of how to use these with parents.

* An understanding of children’s behaviour and how to provide a framework for handling behaviour that parents/carers can relate to and use in family life.

* An understanding of how child development and self-esteem impacts on children’s behaviour.

* Adequate knowledge and skills to set up and run their own ‘Future for Families’ 10 week parenting programme to groups of parents/carers, as well as use the materials within individual family units.