Relationship Training For Professionals Working With Families
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Relationship Revolution
Amity Training and Resources: Factsheets - click on each one to find out more. Each resource has it's own factsheet.
We have carefully created a comprehensive suite of resources and associated training to suit everyone working with families, adults and children. For a more detailed explanation of our offer download our digital factsheets below:
We’re Amity, and helping you build strong, healthy relationships is what we do.
Relationships with our kids, partners, co-parents and families don’t have to be perfect. We don’t have to spend our Friday evenings gathered round a piano singing Sound Of Music songs! But it is important that we do ourselves and each other a favour and learn how to repair when things go wrong, so we don’t leave any emotional scars. We all deserve to have strong, healthy relationships. We also have a responsibility to make sure we look after our side of the relationships we have with others.
That’s where we come in. We have decades of practical, frontline experience - so we know what makes relationships great. We understand the little details of why they break down or struggle and through experience and expertise, we know exactly how to make them work better. We’re here to help you learn the skills to make relationships work, reduce any sort of difficulties holding them back and find new ways to make things feel ok for everyone.
Lets face it - life is complicated enough without the added stress of strained relationships too!
Here at Amity, we offer relationship training, support and incredible resources for professionals working with children, adults and families. We empower people to do this through evidence-based training and digital resources for subjects including parental conflict, domestic abuse, everyday parenting challenges, parenting apart, child-to-parent abuse training, recognising the difference between domestic abuse and conflict, healthy relationships and hearing the child's voice.
We support organisations to invest in their workforce. Relationships distress impacts on productivity, loyalty & absenteeism. We can help you foster a more supportive, focussed and positive culture to ensure your people feel cared for when they are going through relationship and family difficulties.
If you’re someone who works with people, we can train you up to spot when a relationship’s stuck, and give you all the skills and insight you need to help unstick it and move things on to a more positive place.
What we create
Here at Amity, we believe that armed with the right information, the right skills and a little bit of kindness, we can figure out how to navigate even the toughest of relationships so that we’re getting the best from them.
Family life is messy, and that's why we don't offer fixed interventions or programmes. We create structured, research-informed resources that draw on evidence from relevant fields including:
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Child development and attachment theory
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Trauma-informed practice
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Behaviour change and motivational interviewing
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Systemic family work
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safeguarding and social care best practice
Our resources are designed to support skilled practitioners, not replace their professional judgement or impose rigid models. We recognise that:
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Families are not uniform and their needs don't always fit within rigid programme boundaries
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Practitioners bring deep expertise and need tools that can be adapted to context, culture and complexity
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Local areas are best placed to evaluate 'what works' in their settings and communities
In a field of work that often over relies on fidelity to rigid models, we consciously prioritise responsiveness, evidence-informed design and practitioner autonomy - because we think that works best for everyone.
meet circulus
We know Local Authorities need to hear the views of families about their experience. This vital information helps you invest in the services that are showing impact, save costs and takes a continuous learning approach to service improvement. However, we know that capturing meaningful family voice at scale is challenging. Traditional feedback methods in Children’s Services such as phone calls, interviews and paper surveys are slow, outdated, expensive and ineffective. We also recognise from our research and experience with almost 70 local authorities, that gaining feedback from families is just one part of a complex jigsaw. It’s also about transforming feedback into insights, cost saving and service improvement.
Circulus is the solution.
It provides a wrap-around supported framework that includes real time SMS/WhatsApp communications, training, consultancy, and effortless integration that places the ‘family voice’ at the heart of your work. Most of the parents and carers you support have a mobile phone so why not use it to build an ongoing dialogue?
Understand and evaluate the needs of your service users
An intro to Emily and Kate
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Emily
With 25 years experience under her belt, Emily's certainly earned her stripes as a 'relationship expert'. During her 19 years within Local Authority Children's Services departments, she grew expertise in family dynamics and parenting, child exploitation, youth justice, domestic abuse and parental conflict. Emily understands the challenges, needs and hopes of people working with families in public services - she's been there herself. She's super passionate about making sure professionals have the chance to learn the skills to support people the best they can.
Kate
Kate's made it her business (literally!) to understand how and why we struggle with the way we relate to one another, and how to change that. Trained by the Institute of Family Therapy and Relate, Kate specialises in couple relationships, be that together or apart. Kate's worked with families for 30 years and is passionate about learning what parents really need to gain confidence and knowledge (and then helping them with this). Not a big fan of theory or advice, Kate loves to share compassionate, useful and practical ideas that help people change.
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