Nurturing Families™ Facilitator Certification Training
This training requires the purchase of Nurturing Families™ curriculum (billed separately).
This NPP-Nurturing Families™ Facilitator Certification Training is specifically designed for professionals and paraprofessionals working with home visitation programs, group, individual or family setting (In-person or Virtual). It follows philosophy that emphasizes the importance of raising children in a warm, trusting, and caring environment. It is founded on the belief that children who are cared for develop the capacity to trust, care, and respect themselves, others, living creatures, and their environment.
This course is currently being offered as a three-day online 18 hour training.
This training focuses on understanding the philosophy of nurturing parenting, assessing high risk parenting beliefs and environments, facilitating competency-based parenting lessons tailored to meet the individual parenting needs of families. Nurturing Families™ can be implemented at the primary, secondary, and tertiary levels of prevention services. Participants will learn how to monitor the success of families through on-going process evaluation strategies designed to measure the attainment of parenting attitudes, knowledge, and skills. Participants will experience an interactive approach to implementing individual, family, and group-based service delivery models.
In this training, participants will learn:
- The NPP-Nurturing Families™ research, values, and philosophy
- The five parenting constructs of abuse and neglect
- The impact of maltreatment on development
- How to assess high-risk parenting beliefs and attitudes
- To ensure congruency between family needs and content delivery
- To gather process and outcome data
- To implement individual, family, and group service models to fidelity
The role of the Certified NPP-Nurturing Families™ Facilitator is to guide families and facilitate discussions for self-discovery. Facilitators, in their training, learn how to facilitate by modeling the core values and philosophy. Following the Certified Facilitator Training, Facilitators will be confident and competent individuals motivated to provide direct services to youth, children, parents and families.
CODE OF CONDUCT. NPP-Nurturing Families™ Facilitators and Trainers should model values and principles when interacting with all others, stay in yearly contact with their Trainer and/or affiliated Nurturing Families Center, always act in the best interest of families, paraprofessionals and professionals and implement to the highest level of integrity and fidelity.
Facilitators and Trainers must have an active agreement on file with the Nurturing Families Center and their last trainer. It is the responsibility of all individuals connected to the Nurturing Families Center to uphold all copyright laws by reporting suspected copyright infringements.
- Curriculum developers can give you written permission to copy their material and it will be for a specific event and will have a time limit on the written MOU.
- If you know of any agency or individual that is copying materials, we are asking that you report them to the Nurturing Families Center of Texas for investigation. Facilitators or Trainers do not have the authority to give anyone, either in their own organization or outside, permission to copy materials. Facilitator or Trainer found doing so will not be able to continue practicing. Trainers and facilitators will immediately lose their certification.
- All Trainers are required to stress, during their trainings, the issue of copyright infringement and inform participants that copyright infringement is breaking the law and the corporation will prosecute.
- Coping or reproducing the assessment tool for mass distribution through a google document or other methods is prohibited. Doing this can contaminate research due to not knowing who answered the assessment tool. This evaluation must be completed in real-time with the facilitator to ensure who is completing the assessment tool.
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