Involving Young People in Parenting Programmes
SECTION 5
Conclusion
5.2 Next Steps
All of the five service delivery sites will continue to implement some of the learning from their model of intervention, although to different degrees.
- Parallel Groups –Site staff from the Centre for Fun and Families feel that they have learned a lot about the engagement process when working with a young person and their parent at the same time in parallel groups. Although they will not currently offer parallel groups at the frequency that they did during the IYPP Project, it will remain a focus for further development.
- Family Group Conferences –Due to the success of the IYPP Project, FGCs have become part of a multi-disciplinary provision, with posts funded by the Local Authority. At the end of November 2004, a conference took place, which was attended by the IYPP Project Co-ordinator, Site staff, international speakers and workers and managers from West Berkshire services.
- Family Therapy – The Family Therapy service was already operating in Luton YOS and will continue to do so, but will incorporate lessons learned from the IYPP project.
- Individual Parallel Work – All of the three East Berkshire YOTs involved in the IYPP project will continue to use this model of intervention, though to different degrees depending upon staffing issues. As the funding for a specialist parallel young person’s worker is no longer available, the plan is to train staff in each YOT to deliver the young person’s programme, where it is considered appropriate to do so from a parenting assessment.
- Family Skills Training – Kinara Family Resource Centre are unable to continue to deliver this model without additional funding. They will, however, continue to incorporate some of the theoretical principles and exercises from the programme and their learning form the IYPP Project into their work with parents and young people. They are currently exploring funding options and particularly the possibility of providing this model in the future in different settings.
This report has detailed the learning that has taken place during the Involving Young People in Parenting Programmes project. It has done so in three ways. Firstly, the learning from practice from the experience of each of the individual five models of intervention included in the IYPP project has been reported. Secondly, the findings from the evaluation have been reported. Thirdly, it has described the learning from the multi-site IYPP Project training/workshop sessions.
We hope that the learning from the IYPP pilot project described in this report can now be used to inform:
- The further development of each of the 5 delivery models
- Projects that aim to develop services to involve young people in parenting interventions
- The structure and content of a further service delivery and research programme in the UK