Parenting

A Guide for Practitioners

York’s Children & Young People’s Plan 2007-2010 aims to provide a clear sense of direction for everybody working to improve outcomes for children and young people in the City of York.

The Parenting and Support Strategy supports this by ensuring all relevant partners in the city are working together to provide mothers, fathers and carers the information, advice and support they need to feel knowledgeable and respond appropriately to the individual needs of their children and young people.

For more information about the parenting strategy contact Linda Murphy on 01904 554597.

Below are a list of links that may be useful when working with parents and carers. You may also find it useful to search the service directory for parenting support groups that run locally.

Parenting Strategy

The Parenting Strategy for 2008 - 2011 has now been published and can be downloaded from this site.

Parenting Training

There are a number of training courses coming up around parenting:

• Level 3 Certificate in Working with Parents
• Training the Trainers in Parenting

 

Links

Parenting UK
The national umbrella body for people who work with parents.
http://www.parenting-forum.org.uk/

National & Family Parenting Institute - 020 7424 3460
An independent charity working to support parents in bringing up their children, to promote the wellbeing of families.
http://www.nfpi.org/

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
This is the UK's largest independent social research and development charity. It supports a wide programme of research and development projects in housing, social care and social policy. Many research findings relating to parenting.
http://www.jrf.org.uk/

Positive Parenting
Specialises in the support of parents and those who work with them, producing resources, training and the delivery of parenting support in the community. Trained facilitators in York run courses for parents of primary and secondary aged children, including parents of children with special needs.
http://www.parenting.org.uk/

The Incredible Years – Carolyn Webster Stratton
Research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's aggression and behaviour problems and increasing social competence at home and at school
http://www.incredibleyears.com/toc.htm

Parentalk
Aims to celebrate parenthood at all stages of a child's development, highlighting its importance in society and making it fun. From pre-parenthood right through to grandparenthood, at home, at school or in the work place, Parentalk offers publications and resources on different aspects of parenthood as well as resources for pracitioners, work based parenting support and local events.
http://www.parentalk.co.uk/

YMCA
Information on their range of family programmes including parenting support schemes such as ‘Dads & Lads’ and ‘Parents of Children with Special Needs’.
http://www.ymca.org.uk/parenting

Trust for the Study of Adolescence
Raise awareness of the needs of young people. Offers training and professional development, materials and courses for parents of teenagers and a range of publications.
http://www.tsa.uk.com/

The Youth Justice Board
You will find the evaluation of 42 pilot parenting programmes and documents on Key Elements of Effective Practice and Involving Young People in Parenting Programmes
http://www.youth-justice-board.gov.uk/cgi-bin/MsmGo.exe?grab_id=550&page_id=13303808&query=parenting&hiword=PARENT+PARENTS+parenting

Family Links
A registered charity promoting emotional literacy, nurturing and relationship skills in families, schools and communities. It does this through the Nurturing Programme, a series of 10-week courses for children in primary schools and parents/carers in parenting groups. It works with, and trains staff in, many statutory and voluntary organisations across the UK.
http://www.familylinks.org.uk/

National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations
NCVCCO has a travelling exhibition of Parenting Education Materials (PEM) which can be hired for local conferences and other events.
http://www.ncvcco.org/

Parenthood Education in Schools
A resource (connected to the Parent Education & Support Forum) to promote best practice in parenthood education for children and young people in schools aimed at anyone involved in planning or delivering parenthood education.
http://www.parentinguk.org/

Parents In Partnership
Parent Infant Network aim is to maintain and improve the emotional health of families through one of the most critical stages in people's lives - the period surrounding the birth of a new baby. PIPPIN trained facilitators are introducing parenting classes in many parts of the country, but not in York.
http://www.pippin.org.uk/index.html

The Parenting Fund
On this website, you can discover more about the Parenting Fund and the projects being funded.
http://www.parentingfund.org/

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