Involving Young People in Parenting Programmes
SECTION 4
Lessons Learned from Practice
One of the objectives from the original IYPP project implementation plan was to develop learning from practice to share with others, who may be interested in involving young people in parenting programmes. TSA facilitated IYPP project multi-site meetings, which were attended by staff from all five delivery sites. The IYPP project Co-ordinator facilitated some of the meetings and some had external facilitators. The nature of the meetings varied according to the issue addressed and took the form of discussion groups, workshops or training events.
At the first multi-site meeting of all the five sites, staff identified themes in their work that were common to all the models, despite the fact that the models were very different.
As well as exploring common themes, the staff from the project delivery sites shared their knowledge and experience on a number of issues that emerged in their practice during the delivery phase.
The following section focuses upon the learning shared by the IYPP Project site staff. A series of workshops were held on the following themes:
- Session 1 Working with Diversity
- Session 2 Engaging with Families
- Session 3 Consulting with Parents and Young People
- Session 4 Confidentiality
- Session 5 Working with Young People who have Suffered Abuse/Neglect
- Session 6 Promoting Resilience in Young People
- Session 7 Staff Supervision
- Session 8 Common Practice Issues
The content which follows relates to each of these sessions and is drawn from the contributions of the participants. It follows the format of each session and includes material presented at the sessions as well as the ideas, views and experiences of the staff from each site participating in the IYPP project. Some of the material is written up as ‘notes’ from the session.