21st October – Brussels, Belgium (online)
COFACE Families Europe co-hosted a workshop with 9 professionals working with families in Flanders and Brussels, with the following agenda:
- Overview of family supports in Europe
- Presentation of Skills4Parents resources (learning guide for parents, handbook for professionals, and online Hub)
- Deep dive into empowerment skills
This was followed by group work on how professionals can use the S4P resources in their respective local communities and a general feedback session. The family support professionals who attended the workshop work with different types of families and from different perspectives: criminal justice system, parenting support, gender equality, building training for professionals, and using the PPP approach on positive parenting.
The S4P resources were considered useful in different ways:
- to kick-start discussions with parents whose children are in the criminal justice system
- to develop parental education programmes with a clearer pedagogical approach
- to use in low-threshold services like family centres where parents come for help on specific issues (e.g. if they have a child with autism)
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