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For a thoughtfull family support A reference tool for parental support

This reference tool provides ethical and educational guidelines for professionals working with parents and children. It aims to foster shared vocabulary, promote respectful practices, and enhance collaboration among professionals. By emphasizing the child's centrality and parental abilities, it encourages comprehensive support that considers diverse family dynamics. The tool urges professionals to take a caring approach, analyze their involvement, and reflect before acting. It serves as a non-static, analytical resource for discussing various perspectives and adapting support within professional networks.

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For a thoughtfull family support A reference tool for parental support

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  1. For a thoughtfull family supportA reference tool for parental support 23 May 2013 - Florence

  2. Why a reference tool? To provide professionals with a reference document establishing: Ethical markers Educational benchmarks To develop a shared vocabulary To promote professional practices intended to ensure: Respect for children and parents Closer coordination between professionals to support parents

  3. Priority objectives of the reference tool To make available practical and conceptual knowledge To develop common benchmarks To promote collaborative network practices

  4. For whom? A tool intended for all professionals of the Federation Wallonia-Brussels who work with children and parents

  5. Conceptual framework Parenting? Neologism  family transformations • The child’s place • Diversity • Private/public • Roles • Parental dynamic

  6. Conceptual framework Parental support in FWB • Divided competences • International Convention on the Rights of the Child • ONE • Youth outreach service • Help for victims of child abuse

  7. 4 major principles • The child is at the centre of parental support • Parents have abilities • Parental support is aimed at all parents • It is necessary to take account of the living situation

  8. Guidelines for offering parental support Take time for analysis Adopt a caring attitude towards parents (Ac)know(ledge) the role of the other stakeholders Analyse one’s involvement A tool for analysing the provision of parental support (intelligibility tool) Collectively recognise the risks that professionals have to take

  9. Reflect on before acting, to be used alone, in networks... The framework for parental support actions is not: an action guide a response model a typology of families a diagnostic tool a static object, fixed in time A tool to reflect on parental support

  10. FOUNDATIONS: Continuum Family situation Parental support actions Crossover of continuums Axes Horizontal Vertical - time dimension - A tool to reflect on parental support

  11. FOUNDATIONS: Approaches Supplementary Bottom-up Evolving A tool to reflect on parental support

  12. A non-static analytical tool, a continuum (before establishing a response framework) Supporting parents, recognising their abilities A tool to share, discuss on different perceptions, compare different viewpoints, adjust support within the framework of a network of professionals A tool to reflect on parental support

  13. Thank you!

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