Parents have the greatest influence on their children’s development. Research has shown that parenting supports can support positive outcomes for both children and parents, and prevent family crises. All parents deserve access to strength-based and evidence-based support in their community.
We support the growth of evidence-based parenting programs—such as Nobody’s Perfect and Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting—which are offered by family support centres across Canada. We also work to identify the evolving needs of parents, and help family support centres respond to these needs.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Nobody’s Perfect parenting program (NPP) partners and master trainers worked to adapt NPP parent group sessions and NPP facilitator training to a virtual environment. Building on this significant work, we are supporting the next steps to further adapt the traditionally “in-person” facilitator training into a standard virtual facilitator training for new NPP facilitators. Collaboration and consultation are essential to this project; extensive national needs assessments guide every step we take. The standard virtual facilitator training will be pilot tested and evaluated.
The project is being managed and administered by Families Canada in collaboration with NPP partners and stakeholders.
If you’d like more information on any of our projects, please contact us at info@familiescanada.ca.