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Doing Research and Evaluation with Young People and Families: and introduction

Trust for the Study of Adolescence

13 May 2010 Birmingham

Do you work with young people and/or families? Do you need to do research or evaluation to help improve your services, provide an evidence base, and/or support funding applications? This one day introductory course is aimed at all practitioners who want to plan, undertake and use research and evaluation in their organisation. Participants may also be new to commissioning research and evaluation, and want to know more.

Family Rights Group (FRG)

FRG provides advice and support for families whose children are involved with social services. Training courses include Introduction to Family Group Conferences; Referring and Working with Family Group Conferences; Developing a Family Group Conference Service; Training and Support for New Family Group Conference Co-ordinators and Advocacy for Families Involved with Social Services. They also offer tailor made training. For more information click on the link above.

How to Evaluate a Project

Young People in Focus 

23 March 2011 Manchester
9 June 2011 London

Evaluation is an important part of all services, and government, local authorities and other relevant bodies often require evaluation evidence as a condition of future funding or commissioning. This introductory course is aimed at anyone who works with young people and/or families, and who want to evaluate an initiative, a project, or a service and the course will take delegates through the evaluation process, in manageable stages and using everyday language. The course will also focus on how you can embed evaluation into all your work, as well as evaluating specific projects or initiatives.

LEVELheaded

LEVELheaded offer training leading to an Award in Facilitation Skills and an Advanced Award in Facilitation Skills, both endorsed by ILM. They also provide non-accredited 1 and 2 day facilitation skills courses for people at all entry levels and a 5 day Training and Facilitation Skills course for those who wish to design and lead training courses. For more information click on the link.

Postgraduate Certificate in Integrated Children's Services

University of Worcester Institute of Education is offering a Postgraduate Certificate in Integrated Children's Services. It has been designed to recruit those whose work role or interest reflects current policy developments and government initiaitives, such as the Green Paper, 'Every Child Matters'. All of the modules provide scope for developing skills as trainers and teachers, for example those working in a range of contexts with partners, through an emphasis on critical reflective practice. The modules are content free, which allows them to be tailored to meet the individual needs and interests of the learner. Similarly the assessment items lend themselves to a specific focus, normally workplace-based, which may be related, for example, to issues of parenting.
For more information email or phone 01905 855581.

Touch Learn training

Touch Learn trains health professionals and other professionals who have an interest in supporting parents. They run an Infant Massage Teacher Training Programme and Rhythm Kids Music and Movement Workshop. For further information click on the link above.