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.

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