In our daily lives and work, we all use advocacy skills, often without realising it. Using parent advocacy skills in practice can help with meaningful engagement, enabling parents we are working alongside to find and amplify their voices.
This course is recommended for parent and young parent volunteers and staff who provide support for other parents and caregivers.
Parent Advocacy explained:
Applying parent advocacy engagement skills enables us to understand how to promote the views, wishes and feelings of our advocacy partners (and ourselves) more effectively, empowering parents towards enhanced self-advocacy. This training explores how to develop improved parent advocacy engagement techniques, gain confidence navigating health, care, and educational systems, and make more informed rights-based decisions.
Course content
Upon completion of this training, learners will:
- develop a clear understanding of parent advocacy
- recognise how to channel your skills to engage and empower parent voices towards self-advocacy and increased understanding of their rights
- explore the balance between wishes, feelings, and best interests during your work with parents
- reflect on when, where, and how you can effectively use your enhanced and transferable parent advocacy skills
- identify when it’s appropriate to transition into signposting to other specialist services or support.
This Parent Advocacy Engagement Skills training will be delivered via a live, interactive webinar. The training session will be delivered by a member of our highly experienced training team.
NYAS is a leading, national rights-based charity who deliver a range of services, including appropriate adults and age assessments, to children across England and Wales. We have practical experience within this training area, and your learning will be supported by our expert guidance and a supporting handbook.
Please contact us via [email protected] for information about our 2026 training dates for this course, or to discuss bespoke developments for your team.
