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PROFESSIONALS 

We can customize a training workshop to meet your needs or you can choose from the listing of some of our family-centered workshops below:

Empowering parents to lead and be in partnership with professionals is a groundbreaking approach.  Parents can enter into partnership with professionals to create family-centered practices and programs improve outcomes for children. 

This workshop shares strategies to show how practitioners can meaningfully partner with parents to achieve successful outcomes for children; and to value the expertise of families for systems change efforts.

The Importance of HOPE to Building and Sustaining Family Leadership Capacity 

Empowering parents to lead and work in collaboration is a groundbreaking approach to the work of serving children.  This workshop can help achieve the following outcomes: 1) Assess family readiness for collaboration; 2) Empower families to grow their leadership; 3) Show professionals how they can meaningfully connect with families in collaborative endeavours; and 4) Value the expertise of families for systems change efforts.

HOPE 101: Focusing on the Abilities of Children with Special Needs

This workshop addresses the participation of children with disabilities in educational settings.  The role of families is important to the success of all children – but especially of children with disabilities.  Participants can expect to learn strategies to:  1)Understand  the importance of HOPE in serving children with disabilities and their families; 2) Advocate for the abilities of children with disabilities by making sure that the bar is not set too low; and 3) Connect and partner with families.

It's Not What I Look Like, It's How You See My (Child's) Possibilities

The lens that you choose to view parents and families could be a barrier to maximizing outcomes for their child and a barrier to meaningful partnership.  Learn strategies to focus on a child's possibilities rather than their circumstances.

Are Parents Really Welcome?  Understanding the Impact of Gatekeepers and First Impressions on Parent Involvement

Are you trying to increase the presence of families?  We've all heard the saying, "First Impressions are Lasting".  Are you aware of what families experience when they enter your doors or arrive at your meetings?  Learn what matters most to families and strategies to assess how you're doing and ways to improve.  For many families, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.

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HOPE Out Loud

Because every child has possibilities! 

A Workshop for Parents and Families

This workshop teaches:

As parents and caregivers, we must know and believe that our child has possibilities—no matter what our family might be facing.  We must be active, confident voices in making sure that our children are pursuing those possibilities and are successful in life.  Our hopes for our children are what will make the difference in what our children achieve.  We must be ready to hope out loud so that our children can succeed and also understand that their possibilities are endless.  Our children’s futures are on the line.  Participants are asked to bring a picture of their child to paste on the cover of their own HOPE Out Loud ™ booklet to be completed while in the workshop.  Parents return home with their own pre-printed booklet that captures parent strengths, parent’s hopes and dreams, barriers and then steps to be taken to keep moving forward and more.

Contact us to schedule your training workshop today