Engaging Families: Building and Sustaining Helpful Relationships With Parents (Online)

Overview

Strong relationships with families help to promote positive parent-child relationships and early learning environments and experiences for children. This series of online workshops (2 x 1.5 hours) will empower you to forge genuine partnerships with families and redevelop services in a way that truly meets the needs and expectations of the community.   

Why choose Engaging Families?

Strengthen your confidence in engaging with parents who may find services difficult to access, through exploring family ecology and worker and service characteristics that support parent engagement. You'll learn how to overcome barriers, create a welcoming environment for families, and identify and implement practical strategies to promote engagement within and across services.  

  • Increase your understanding of 'engagement' as a multifaceted term.  

  • Recognise engagement as a culture of practice within services.  

  • Identify worker and service characteristics that foster successful parent engagement.  

  • Acquire practical strategies to promote engagement within and across services. 

Duration

2 x 1.5 hour sessions

Dates

19 and 26 May 2025

Time

4PM to 5.30PM each week

Delivery

  • Online
  • This workshop can also be delivered in-person

Contact

For further information, please email [email protected] 

Participation

Please note all training is participatory and highly interactive. Participants attending online workshops are asked to have cameras turned on throughout the session with a preference for one participant per screen. 

In-person delivery

Participants

This workshop can be delivered in-person for a minimum of 9 and maximum of 15 participants.

Cost

  • $4,125 per workshop plus travel time and expenses.
  • Costs are based on standard weekday pricing.
  • Out of hours can be negotiated at additional cost.
  • For a tailored quote, please email us at [email protected]

Customised delivery

This workshop can be tailored to suit a range of practitioners and/or particular situations. It can be provided as a brief session of 1.5 to 2 hours, a half-day workshop or a series of sessions. Contact us to find out more.