Training and Development Profile for Professionals

One way Parent To Parent provides information is via a number of training and skill enhancement activities for families, as well as professional development for interested professionals. The training relationships between people with a disability, families and professionals, also contributes to building and maintaining positive and mutual respect.

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Professional Development is facilitated by Parent to Parent family facilitators. Parent colleagues from other states, as well as interstate and international presenters also provide a high standard of development that Parent to Parent organise to come to Queensland from time to time.

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Parent To Parent offers the following development activities for professionals:

The Parent Perspective… A four hour workshop on the roles families assume or are expected to assume as the parent of a person with a disability. The course is designed to give professionals an understanding of the history and challenges that families deal with on a day to day basis. This is facilitated by Parent to Parent family facilitators.

Building Relationships with Families… A one day course that discusses how and why families may make decisions that they believe to be the best interests of their son or daughter. The day uses practical tools and suggestions on how to build relationships with families, based on the knowledge of their concerns.

To Stand Beside – Advocacy for Inclusion

This three day workshop provides a theoretical and practical foundation to support:

For participation by:

The Facilitator and author of the course, is Kevin Stone, a parent who is the director of Victorian Advocacy League for Individuals with a Disability