Sample Initial Facilitator Training Outline
(specific content for each Training Workshop varies based on community and experience of participants)

Ethical Practice: Ethical principles and an ethical decision making model.

Communication Skills: Skill building exercises; empathic interpretation; constructive feedback.

Supporting Individual Change: Empowerment; advocacy; problem-solving.

Dynamics of Child Abuse: Definitions of child abuse; factors contributing to family violence; discipline vs. abuse; abuse/misuse of power.

Facilitation Skills: Understanding and managing group dynamics; building a co-facilitator relationship.

Legislation: Child, Family and Community Service Act definitions of abuse; child protection; implications for facilitator role; services to families.

Supporting Change in Your Community: Community development approach in involving citizens in defining problems and developing solutions.

Anti-oppressive Practice: Working effectively with parents from diverse ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds.

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