Families and Schools Together (Workshop 2)
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The FAST program is an evidence-based, 8-week parenting program created in 1988 in the UK. It aims to help children succeed in school and strengthen family bonds through a family group approach and cross-agency collaboration. Key aspects include a 2-day training for professionals and parents, weekly 2.5 hour meetings that include activities to build family relationships and parental involvement, and ongoing monthly follow-up meetings for 2 years after. Evaluations show high retention rates of families in the program and improvements in family relationships, child behavior, school performance, social support networks, and parental involvement in school.
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Families and Schools Together (Workshop 2)
- 1. Evidence-based Parenting Programmes and Social Inclusion 20th September Middlesex University FAST Overview 03/10/12 1
- 3. History of FAST • Created by Prof. Lynn McDonald in 1988 • Universal programme • Early intervention/prevention strategies • Family group approach • Cross agency collaboration 03/10/12 3
- 4. School Parents Community- based agencies FAST Team Mental 40 families health per site cycle 03/10/12 4
- 5. Amongst other things - What makes FAST special? An evidence-based parenting programme • 2 day training for ‘professionals’ and parent partners • Trainer works closely with teams and comes 3 times over the 8 weekly group meetings, giving on-site supervision at the school and feedback about programme integrity 03/10/12 5
- 6. • Experiential • Builds child-parent, parent-school and family-community bonds • Multi-agency working/fostering trust amongst professionals • Sustainable – Training of Trainer/development of local trainers and parent led FASTWORKS • High retention rates • Middlesex University accreditation 03/10/12 6
- 7. FAST Programme Goals • Helping children to succeed in school and in the community • Increasing parental involvement in school • Stress reduction on daily routines for children and families • Strengthening family cohesion and reducing chronic family conflict • Substance abuse intervention/prevention 03/10/12 7
- 8. FAST – Underpinning Values • Empowerment • Table-based coaching • Shared responsibility (governance) • Cultural representation 03/10/12 8
- 9. FAST underpinning theories • Social Ecological Theory • Social Capital • Family Stress • Family Systems • Brain Development 03/10/12 9
- 10. Recruitment of Families • FAST recruitment must involve face to face contact with parents. • Parent partners must be involved and parents told about all the components of the programme. • FAST is presented as a fun, free activity for ALL the family that helps children at school and helps parents get to know other parents. 03/10/12 10
- 11. FAST First Session (2.5 Hours) • Family Flags ~ 15 minutes • Welcome ~ 5 minutes • FAST Hello ~ 5 minutes • FAST song ~ 5 minutes • Family Meal: Children serve the parents ~ 30 minutes • Scribbles ~ 15 minutes • Feeling Charades ~ 15 minutes • Parents’ Buddy Time/ Parent’s Time/ Children’s Time ~ 30 minutes (Peer group time) • Special Play: one-to-one ~ 15 minutes • Lottery ~ 10 minutes • Closing circle and RAIN ~ 5 minutes
- 12. Family Flags
- 13. Scribbles 03/10/12 13
- 14. Scribbles 03/10/12 14
- 15. Special Activity lay P The parent spends 15 minutes with their child playing together. The child leads the play, not the parent. Outcome Improves the parent-child bond. Research Sylvia Hewlett, Kate Kogan, Salvador Minuchin, Russell Berkeley, Shedler and Block, Alice Miller
- 16. Special Session (Week 5) • Each parents group chooses a topic to explore with their families on Week 5 • The team facilitates this by liaising with community based agencies • Topics have included: housing, dealing with debt, substance misuse, massage, zumba
- 17. What do evaluations show? 94% Retention Rate for families in the UK 03/10/12 17
- 18. Graduating as a family 03/10/12 18
- 19. FASTWORKS FASTWORKS is a monthly (some groups opt for weekly or bi-monthly) follow up series of meetings held for 2 years after the FAST course ends – Parent led with FAST Team support – Continues to build bonds and support networks – Community based projects and activities undertaken
- 20. Evaluation Process Parents and teachers complete questionnaires before and after the eight week FAST programme Evaluation of these questionnaires involves various measures to investigate changes in: 1. Improvement in family and parent child relationships 2. Improvement in behaviour of child at home 3. Improvement in behaviour & academic performance in school 4. Improvement in social community relationships 5. Improvement in social support and reciprocal exchanges 6. Improvement in parent school relationship 03/10/12 20
Editor's Notes
- FAST is a parental support, pre-school to primary transition initiative. Created by Dr Lynn McDonald in 1988, early intervention/prevention strategy, it uses a family approach. Now in 8 countries and has received many awards. Preventing poverty through education partnerships We will improve the support children living in poverty receive outside school by: Supporting children and parents to learn together Providing parents with the skills, confidence and resources to help with their child ’ s learning at home and to engage with school. Helping to build stronger bonds between families and schools How we plan to do it Establish supportive groups of parents, children and community members Build their skills and capacity to support children ’ s learning - 8 weekly multi-family sessions of coaching, hands-on learning and support . P4C To establish informal networks of local support Our work will focus on parents of children between 3 and 5 years old
- J ust on the first night
- Activity: groups – ideas on encouraging parents to participate in FAST. Remember universal – not targeted.