VIRTUAL HSCP - Increased Awareness Webinar on Reducing Parental Conflict

This interactive webinar, delivered by Relate, will support Hampshire professionals, and volunteers to feel confident to differentiate between parental conflict and domestic abuse and to establish at what point parental conflict might become unhealthy. Participants will be able to identify and understand the detrimental impact exposure to a level of parental conflict will have the child/children living in the family. They will learn how to respond, protect children and support parents.

This webinar will also provide signposting to additional information to support professionals, where parental conflict is interfering with family life and proving a barrier to effective professional intervention. The webinar is available to all staff who either come into contact with parents or are directly working with children and young people. This includes schools, nurseries, police colleagues, health colleagues, social workers and family support staff.

Learning Outcomes:

Identify and be able to explain to parents how conflicting behaviours within the family network can have a negative impact on family life and, in particular, the children   Understand what impact your own experience of conflict has on your confidence to have conversations with parents about their conflict Learn about tools that may help aid the conversations you have with parents and how these can be used to support parents to positively communicate with each other Gain new strategies and techniques on how parental conflict can be responded to in a strengths-based way Gain a basic understanding of the rights/responsibilities of parents and learn about simple tools to enable cooperative working between parents Acquire a good working knowledge of the threshold for referral to level 3 or 4 services Learn from scenarios and case studies

About Relate

Relate’s vision is of a future in which healthy and happy relationships form the heart of a thriving society and we want to make expert information and support for healthy relationships available to everyone. Relate has considerable experience and expertise in the Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) field through the delivery of projects across the UK. In addition, we provide a range of training for professionals and organisations.

About the trainer

Jude Gordon is an experienced practitioner and trainer in the field of young people and families. She began her career in the North East working within education, supporting Looked After Children and working within domestic abuse services. Jude is a qualified Probation Officer, Mental Health First Aid Instructor and Mentalization Therapist. She has been helping deliver the DWP Pilot Reducing Parental Conflict Programme for the last 2 years and is passionate about sharing the learning and helping practitioners have the confidence to start these difficult conversations with families.

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