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Training

3D Futures offers a unique blend of training opportunities covering all aspects of family support. Our training draws on all we have learned over the last 27 years as we have developed and delivered our award winning family support Charity 3D Families. Our training offer covers everything that is required to facilitate successful family support services including the approach, service delivery and operational aspects.

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Delivery

 

We can deliver training which takes you on a complete journey of delivering a family support charity or we can offer training sessions which focus on developing specific aspects of family support to help you wherever you are at on your own journey of delivering family support services. Each session can be delivered individually or packaged together to create a bespoke training programme for your own group or organisation. 

 

All our training sessions and programmes can be delivered in person or on-line and can also be packaged together with our consultancy and/or coaching support and/or our resources to create your own unique 3D Futures BUNDLE.

 

Duration

 

Each session is 3 hours 

 

Course Trainers 

 

Marion Lindsay & Sharon Colvin

 

Cost  

 

Charities, Churches & Community Groups: £50 per person or £500 per session (max 12 people)

 

Public & Private Sector: £80 per person or £800 per session (max 12 people)​

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3D Families Award

 

The ‘3D Families Approach’ course is a set 6 session (18 hour) programme which covers all the core aspects of the 3D Families Approach as starred below.

Gain the 3D FAMILIES AWARD  in recognition you have received the required training to follow the ‘3D Families’ family support approach.

*Leadership in Family Support

  • Explore key aspects of effective leadership in family support

  • Learn how to create and embed the right ethos within and throughout your family support work which establishes the culture you require

  • Create a culture of creative, innovative & reflective practice

  • Understand the importance of collaboration & how to continue creating the culture to share your ethos across services

*Engaging with Families

  • Learn different ways to engage with families, including the what, how, when and where Co-designing services with families (Parent-led)

  • Explore how to engage those who do not reach out

  • Understand and consider how to respond to individual family needs

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*Building Theraputic & Trusting Relationships

  • Consider the principles & qualities required by a family worker

  • Consider the importance of good relationships

  • Explore different tools & concepts to support building trusting relationships

  • Understand importance and effective methods for co-regulation

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*Supporting the Parent to Support the Child - part 1

  • Explore what a child needs to thrive & learn key parenting strategies & messages to support each need

  • Understand your role in supporting the parent to support their child to thrive looking at ways to do this

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*Supporting the Parent to Support the Child - part 2

  • Explore what a child needs to thrive & learn key parenting strategies & messages to support each need

  • Understand your role in supporting the parent to support their child to thrive looking at ways to do this

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*Understanding Trauma

  • Understand causes & impact of trauma

  • Explore how to support families articulate, process and heal from their own trauma

  • Consider how to support parents to prevent future trauma

  • Learn how to ensure your service is trauma-informed and trauma-responsive

How-to-Guide to Running Sessions

  • Consider the logistics of running sessions & learn how to run sessions with families effectively

Supporting Families through Play

  • Understand the benefits of play for children & families including outdoor play & risky play

  • Learn & participate in play activities to engage families of all ages & stages

Partnership Working

  • Look at different opportunities for partnership working including who to partner with and different ways to partner

  • Consider what makes a good partnership

  • Learn ‘Top Tips’ for Collaboration

Collaborating for Systems Change

  • Understand what systems change is and some of the theory around this

  • Learn about our Drumchapel model for systems change & consider how to apply this approach in your own context

Measuring Impact

  • Learn methods, templates and tools for recording and understanding impact

  • Explore what data to collect and how to set the right targets & outcomes to evaluate your work

  • Understand how to learn from your data and embed reflective practice across your work      

  • Ensure your work is family-led with parent and child needs at the heart of all you do

Resourcing your Work

  • Learn ‘Top Tips’ for securing & reporting on funding

  • Explore different ways of raising your own income through fundraising and contracts

  • Build the right team for your work by exploring how to recruit and retain good staff, volunteers and board members 

Management & Governance

  • Explore key aspects of good & effective management processes

  • Understand and deliver on your responsibilities including: Embedding your ethos

  • Managing staff & volunteers

  • Managing finances

  • Health & safety

  • Managing risk

  • Legal obligations

  • Explore the use of effective tools including the 3D Team, Management & Volunteer Handbooks and the 3D Services & Systems Audit

Working with Volunteers

  • Explore opportunities to engage volunteers & different volunteering roles

  • Understand the mutual benefits for working with volunteers

  • Consider key aspects for recruiting, training & supporting Volunteers

  • Learn good practice to follow when working with volunteers & explore the 3D Volunteer Handbook

Facilitating Peer Support Groups

  • Explore the benefits & impact of peer support

  • Consider ways to engage parents in peer support groups

  • Learn skills & tools to facilitate peer support groups including ‘top tips’ for peer support facilitation

Delivering Perinatal Family Support Services

  • Learn key theory around the importance of supporting families through the perinatal stage

  • Learn about our own perinatal services and gain wisdom from our experience and learning & consider the key logistics to delivering perinatal services

  • Explore ways to engage families in the perinatal stage

  • Explore the key messages for families during the perinatal stage

Supporting Families with a Neurodivergent Child

  • Learn about key aspects of neurodivergence including some of the strengths & challenges impacting children & families

  • Learn about our own services in this area and gain wisdom from our experience and learning in relation to engagement with

  • families & stakeholders and providing support

  • Explore parenting strategies for supporting neurodivergent children

Delivering a Baby & Child Clothing & Equipment Bank

  • A step-by-step guide to setting up your own service with practical tools for delivery

Family Support Introduction for Volunteers

  • Understand the key basic concepts for supporting families including supporting the parent to support the child and emotional regulation

Address

Drumchapel Community Centre, 320 Kinfauns Drive, Drumchapel, G15 7HA

Contact

0141 944 5740

​info@3dfamilies.org.uk

Opening Hours

Mon - Fri 9.00am - 4.30pm

Saturday CLOSED

Sunday CLOSED

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Scottish Charity : SC025820

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