The SFSC programme is rooted in prevention; it focuses on violence prevention, which will look at risk-taking behaviour related

to grooming, gangs, knife and crime, risk of radicalisation, unsafe sexual activity, and drug and alcohol use. It addresses and challenges home relationships and their impact on the broader community.

By training community members to deliver, the programme will become embedded in the local community; it will provide a sense of ownership, community cohesion and empowerment.

SFSC is an inclusive, evidence, community-based parenting programme designed to promote protective factors associated with good parenting and better outcomes for children. The programme has been extensively evaluated and has received Class Advice, and Networking Parent is a Quality Mark that has been developed for the parenting sector by the parenting sector.

The SFSC programme will be delivered alongside the young people’s programme. Thereby both programmes will complement each other.

We are inviting community members to register their interest in the training. The training is free.

There can only be a minimum of two people per community organisation.

There must be a commitment to deliver the programmes after the training.

SFSC facilitator training  and Young Peoples training:

The training will be as follows:

Five-day training will take place for the mothers for SFSC facilitators 9:30-17:30 

Three-day training will take place for the young people training 9:30-17:30

Once the training is complete, we expect the delegates to deliver the programmes in the next year.

Mums United have designed the programme as a preventative service that meets the needs of a diverse population, including families which have experienced violence or disadvantage. It reaches parents of children of all ages up to 18 years. It aims to empower families to make changes that can mitigate risks and promote protective factors around young people while simultaneously improving parental wellbeing.

SFSC approach to the parenting programme will deliver 13 three-hour weekly sessions to groups of 8-12 parents and carers, led by two trained facilitators. The programme focuses on developing healthy lifestyles, healthy families and healthy communities which are free from violence. It does this in part by improving the parent-child relationship.