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Webinar: Safeguarding Quality Practice

January 23, 2023

Webinar: Safeguarding Quality Practice

This webinar session is for all PSP Casework Staff.

It will provide a more detailed, intimate reflective practice space. The PSP Learning Hub training is based on the GROW model.

This training will provide you with practical skills that assists PSP Service Providers to reflect on practice and set and reach personal goals that are in line with organisational objectives, increasing their knowledge, understanding and skills in service delivery to children, young people, and families.

F2F Training: Family Action Plan for Change

January 20, 2023

Family Action Plan for Change (FAP-C)

A quality FAP-C is critical in preservation & restoration casework.  In this session, Practitioners are given the opportunity to practice what they have learned by having a crack at writing some content for a FAP-C based on a case study.  This session covers:

• the purpose of a FAP-C
• building adult capabilities
• participation
• the road map of change (storytelling)
• simplifying complexity
• the role of hope
• working with Aboriginal families.

F2F Training: Making Family Time Meaningful

September 20, 2023

Making family time meaningful:

This training provides PSP casework staff and leaders with information, tools, and resources to support them in helping families and children get the most out of their family time. It will also resource practitioners to support carers in gaining skills and confidence in managing family time where it is safe for them to do so. The training explores:

• The differences between supervising, supporting, or monitoring family time
• Engaging children, families, and carers in decision-making around family time using the Sonya Parker Safe Contact Tool
• Tools, resources, and tricks of the trade to create opportunities for successful family time
• Linking the FAP-C to family time:  Family time is an opportunity for parents to demonstrate their parenting and new skills

Webinar: Motivational Interviewing in PSP

August 3, 2021

Join us in this introductory webinar about how Motivational Interviewing can be used effectively in PSP to help families start their process of change. In this webinar, the context, process and skills used in Motivational Interviewing are explored, which may assist in engaging families in safe parenting and building a positive, collaborative and trusting relationship with parents to help resolve the challenges parents face.

Online Training: Difficult Conversations in PSP

April 8, 2021

Overview

Difficult conversations will explore knowledge and skills for responding to situations when important, yet difficult conversations are needed in the context of working with clients across the range of permanency support programs. The course will:

• identify the purpose and foundations for engaging in difficult conversations as well as how to address barriers to having meaningful conversations about difficult issues
• provide opportunities to explore strategies and tools that enhance outcomes in partnering with families in difficult conversations that are important to positive outcomes for children and young people.