Parenting Train the Trainer

Looking to train a group, whole team or organisation in emotional health and wellbeing?

Lead the development of parent access to evidence-based learning in your community through our cascade training programme for group facilitation and help raise emotional health for families, children and young people. Train the trainer sessions provide an enhanced knowledge of the Solihull Approach model and considers its application in delivering parent groups face-to-face in the community. This training enables the cascading of facilitator training to help upskill your team or workforce community to deliver evidence-based, highly rated parent groups with confidence. Togetherness parent groups are delivered with structured comprehensive manuals and resources. The groups include: Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager’ group for parents (10 week course) Antenatal course ‘Understanding pregnancy, labour, birth and your baby’ (6 week course) Postnatal ‘Understanding your baby’ (6 week course) Postnatal Plus groups for parents experiencing greater difficulty (8 week course)

For Parenting Group facilitators who want to train other practitioners to be facilitators of a Togetherness parenting group.

Key facts

Duration:

1 Day (6.25 hours)

Course level:

Training

Price (open individual):

£98

Price (closed virtual):

£879

Price (closed face-to-face):

£998 (inclusive, apart from resources)

Pre-requisite training:

2 Day Foundation Training

Parenting Group Facilitators’ Training

Have facilitated at least one Togetherness parenting group

Pre-requisite to deliver:

N/A

What difference will it make?

The Parenting Train the Trainer is designed to equip practitioners who wish to cascade, as part of their work, the Parenting Group Facilitators’ training to other local practitioners.

This can deliver scalable impact, enhancing access to evidence-based parenting support for families and raising emotional health in your community. The Solihull Approach model at the heart of all our training, groups and resources has a significant evidence base both quantitative and qualitative showing the improvements for:

the parent-child relationship

child prosocial behaviour

behaviour difficulties

parental anxiety and stress

practitioner satisfaction

Delivery

The Parenting Train the Trainer is designed for any practitioner who wants to train other practitioners to be facilitators of a Togetherness parenting group.

‘Open training’ is delivered throughout the year for individual bookings to a cohort of up to 12 delegates.

‘Closed’ training is bespoke delivered for teams of staff of up to 12 individuals within an organisation with a relevant resource pack.

The Parenting Train the Trainer can be delivered as ‘live virtual’ training or face-to-face training by Togetherness trainers, as required.

Responsibilities as a trainer

Once you have completed your training day, you will be a Togetherness trainer. When delivering training, our trainers are responsible for:

Ensuring that those delegates they train have previously attended the 2 Day Foundation Training and can provide the dates, location and trainers’ names of that training

Providing the Togetherness office with the dates and location of the Parenting Group Facilitators’ training and the names of those attending

Ensuring that those they train to be facilitators have their own copy of the relevant Parenting Group Facilitators’ Manual

Making facilitators aware of the need to provide data returns on their groups on this website

Book now

Book an individual place here.

For ‘closed’ training, please complete an enquiry form to discuss a bespoke order.

Contact our team to discuss tailored training packages or commissioning multiple training days.

Resources

Delegates will require a Parenting Group Facilitator Training Trainers’ Manual which will allow them to train others to facilitate the 10-week group for parents, ‘Understanding your child: from toddler to teenager’.