Coram Family - Major
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Project funding
£208,130
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Coram Family is UK's oldest children's charity having been established in 1739 when Captain Thomas Coram built the foundling hospital in Bloomsbury to accommodate abandoned children. We provide a range of innovative, high quality services, designed to promote resilience in vulnerable children, young people and their families.
Apart from its adoption, fostering and contact services, it is home to Coram Parents Centre, a universal, open-access centre for families from the Kings Cross area of London, which provides both general and specialised services to parents.
We want to increase the skills and knowledge of the parenting workforce by providing both general and specialised accredited training courses. This includes the opportunity for practitioners to learn from good practice developed at Coram Family.
Using the Parenting Fund we can train more groups of professionals in the national core curriculum for staff working with parents. We will provide a 24-week training called Working with Parents. It will give staff from a wide variety of backgrounds (including health, education and the voluntary sector) a solid grounding in the skills necessary to work effectively with parents. This course is accredited by the Open College Network at Levels 2 and 3, which enables students to meet the new Occupational Standards for Working with Parents.
Coram Family will also be providing a programme of seminars, workshops and visits, offering consultation to staff working with parents in groups.