One Plus One
Key Facts
Location
Project Criteria
Project funding
£261,791
Funding round
One Plus One focuses on supporting relationships within families, between families and with those who support them. The three main strands to our work are
- Inquiring (collecting evidence about family relationships and the support needed),
- Informing (providing information to those working on the front line of of family and parenting support), and
- Innovating(using what we have learned to develop effective services that support parents and families in their communities). The centre piece of this work is Brief Encounters training - a brief intervention model for supporting familiy relationships.
We are using the Parenting Fund to:
- Enhance the capacity of the parenting education and support sector to respond to the needs of parents and families living with conflict.
- Improve the effectiveness of current education and support by strengthening the intervention skills of those working in the sector and also by reducing the negative impact of family conflict on parents' ability to engage with support.
- Enhance communication and the sharing of good practice across the sector and between voluntary, community and statutory agencies through regional networking events and a shared web space with an emphasis on how to support parents effectively.
We will be:
- running workshops for parent educator trainers and family support trainers to enable them to train those who work with parents to support families living in conflict
- providing a flexible training model and supporting resources that family educators or supporters and their trainers can adapt. These will distributed to frontline workers through subsidised training workshops
- providing a stand alone video training pack for those who work with parents more informally
- running regional networking and skills days for parent educators and supporters
- providing information materials about conflict and its impact on parenting, family relationships and outcomes for children
- developing a web-space for practitioners where they can download resources to enhance their practice; brush up their skills for listening to and supporting parents; be helped to integrate knowledge about conflict and its impact on parenting, family relationships and outcomes for children.