Welcome to our Spring 2021 Newsletter!

We hope you are keeping well and with winter passing and spring arriving there seems more to look forward to now. We have been fortunate in continuing to deliver a record number of training sessions including School Partnerships, Family Centre Teams and Local Authority. These have been provided online with those new to Protective Behaviours and with many progressing to Level 2 and also to become facilitators. Truly delighted that we are training more facilitators to run our evidence based Protective Behaviours programme for Mums, Dads & Carers with another course planned in the summer with Barnardos.

Dave’s retirement

My dear friend and co-director Dave will be retiring soon. Having met on our Protective Behaviours journey over 22 years ago, Dave will be retiring at the end of April though will continue to co-deliver some PB training sessions over the summer. Dave will be continuing his work as a mindfulness teacher and can be contacted on 07929 742295 and dave@amindfulness.co.uk

Training professionals

Our next online Open Access Protective Behaviours training courses at Level 1 & Level 2 are in April and May with places available. Dates and details are under ‘What’s coming up’. We are not yet able to run ‘face to face’ training and parent groups and we hope these will resume in the not too distant future.

Families Feeling Safe – Supporting families with Protective Behaviours

We have confirmation of a further year’s contract with Hertfordshire County Council Targeted Parenting fund meaning 12 more programmes for parents and carers  starting after Easter with four running online in the summer term. Dates will be confirmed in the next few days however you can make referrals to either a Dads course or for Mums, Dads & carers. To make a referral to either course please email: enquiries@familiesfeelingsafe.co.uk

For further details, posters, leaflets and registration forms please visit our website https://familiesfeelingsafe.co.uk/courses-and-workshops-for-parents-and-carers/

What’s coming up 

Training

Protective Behaviours training courses

Online Level 1 training

Online Level 2 training

The Families Feeling Safe Protective Behaviours programme for mums, dads & carers Facilitator training course (completion of Level 2 is required):

PBs Network meetings

We’re looking forward to getting back on track making Network meetings available for anyone trained in PBs and also for registered facilitators of our Families Feeling Safe Protective Behaviours programme for Mums, Dads & Carers.

These provide opportunities for CDP, support, ideas sharing and reviewing elements of PBs.

Dates for summer term to be confirmed soon!

Your news

If you have any PBs news, images or examples of how you are using PBs we’d love to hear from you and feature this on our website or newsletter (with your permission).

Please contact us!

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