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Foster Carer Group Train the Trainer

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

Togetherness Foster Carer Group Train the Trainer is designed for professionals who have already completed our Foundation Training and Parenting Group Facilitator Training, who wish to cascade the Foster Carer Group Facilitators’ Training onto others. This will enable you to train others to deliver the 12-week foster carer group ‘Understanding your foster child’s behaviour’, which is often used as a foundation course for all foster carers in an area. It looks at the Solihull Approach model as integrative theories and demonstrates how this can be applied when training others. Developed by psychologists, child psychotherapists, and practitioners, the Foster Carer Group Train the Trainer is evidence-based and highly rated across sectors. It introduces a way of thinking and working with families, groups or in one-to-one interactions that transcends professions and communities.  The Approach helps practitioners to understand more about brain development to read and shape behaviour, communication, and emotional health.

For Parenting Group facilitators who want to train other practitioners to be facilitators of the Togetherness foster carer 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 Foster Carer Group Train the Trainer is designed to equip practitioners who wish to cascade, as part of their work, the Foster Carer Group Facilitators’ training to other local practitioners, so that those practitioners can facilitate the 12-week foster carer course ‘Understanding your foster child’s behaviour’. 

You will develop the skills needed to delivery training to others in a sensitive and professional manner and communicate the model and Foster Carer group delivery information to those working within the social work sector. 

The Togetherness team are passionate about early intervention and responsive relationships supporting mental health and wellbeing. The Solihull Approach model at the heart of all our training 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 

Course content

  • How to train other delegates who have completed their Togetherness 2 Day Foundation Training to deliver the Togetherness foster carer group 
  • The Solihull Approach (psychoanalytic theory): Containment, Reciprocity, Behaviour Management applied to delivering training 

Delivery

The Foster Carer Group Train the Trainer is designed for any practitioner who wants to train other practitioners to be facilitators of the Togetherness foster carer 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 Foster Carer Group 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.

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Resources

Delegates will require a Foster Carer Course Facilitator Training Trainers’ Manual which will allow them to train others to facilitate the 12-week group for foster carers ‘Understanding your foster child’s behaviour’.