Training for volunteers
Active Futures interactive learning - virtual, face-to-face or walk and talk
An interactive session delivered by Active Norfolk to learn about the importance of activity in life. There is a specialised focus on early years and intergenerational activities.
To learn more and to book, email the Parent Champion Coordinator parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk.
Breastfeeding and Perinatal Mental Health programme training
Find out more and access the training
Disability awareness training - online
A selection of online disability awareness training. This includes disability awareness, an introduction to Autism, and disability matters.
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Family Network Approach course - face-to-face
Delivered by the Family Network team, this is an opportunity to learn more about:
- The Family Network team
- The four principles of the Family Network Approach
- The use of appreciative inquiry
To learn more and to book, email the Parent Champion Coordinator parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk.
Introduction to Peer Support course - online
Whether you are already involved in support work or have wondered about helping others from your own experience, this course will help you to understand all aspects of becoming a peer support worker.
This Adult Learning course covers topics around communication, safeguarding, resilience, boundaries and networking.
Search for a Peer Support course
Introduction to safeguarding course - virtual or face-to-face
The Norfolk Safeguarding Children Partnership delivers safeguarding courses to enable staff and volunteers:
- To develop an awareness and understanding of safeguarding issues and processes
- Understand how safeguarding issues and processes relate to their roles and responsibilities
Chose the date(s) you would like to attend and email parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk. The Parent Champion Coordinator will book your space for you.
Learning Together Through PEEP course - Two-day face-to-face course
For practitioners and peer supporters working with 0-5 year-olds. How to enhance early learning through everyday activities, use the Peep Learning Together programme.
For more information email the Parent Champion Coordinator parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk. They will send you booking details.
LinkedIn Learning via Suffolk Libraries - online
An online resource platform with over 16,000 online courses in seven languages, delivered by expert instructors with real-world experience.
You don't need a LinkedIn account to access courses, but you do need a Suffolk Library card. Please sign up as a Suffolk Libraries member first.
Once you receive your library card visit the LinkedIn Learning website:
Visit the LinkedIn Learning website
- Click 'Get Started', enter your library card number beginning with 20127 and library card PIN number
- Select which skills you'd like to learn and the topics you're interested in
MindEd mental health e-learning
A free educational resource on the mental health of children, young people, adults and older people.
This e-learning is aimed at professionals and volunteers, from beginners through to specialists. It is applicable across health, social care, education, criminal justice and community settings.
Momentum Good Practice Workshop: Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) - online recording
A recorded webinar delivered by Voluntary Norfolk and Norfolk SENDIASS. Information about the first steps to good practice in supporting children and young people who are applying for an EHCP.
Watch the recorded EHCP support webinar
Prevent duty training: Learn how to support people susceptible to radicalisation - e-learning
GOV.UK training courses where you will learn about:
- The Prevent duty
- Different extremist ideologies that can lead to terrorism
- The risk around radicalisation and your supportive role
- Making a Prevent referral that is both informed and made with good intention
- The interventions and support available
SEND e-learning and resources
If you work with children and young people with SEND and their families, Just One Norfolk website can provide you with materials that will support you with inclusive practice and your continuing professional development. You will need to create a professionals account to access the SEND e-learning.
Visit Just One Norfolk website
SEND essentials e-learning
The County Council's e-learning course has been designed to support the professional development of those who work, or are training, in the field of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). It is also a useful tool for parent carers and anyone interested in developing their knowledge and understanding of SEND.
It gives learners a foundation knowledge and understanding of SEND for children and young people aged 0 to 25-years-old.
Solihull Approach foundation training course - two-days online or face-to-face
This training is all about supporting emotional health and wellbeing. There is a focus on relationships and nurturing connected, sensitive and responsive interactions.
The Solihull Approach is evidence-based and is a way of thinking and working with families, groups or one-to-one that transcends professions and communities. The approach is also about understanding brain development to understand behaviour, communication and emotional health.
To learn more and for booking details, email the Parent Champion Coordinator parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk.
Virtual coffee morning - online
The Parent Champion Coordinator hosts a monthly virtual coffee morning. It takes place on the first Wednesday of the month from 11am-12 noon. We regularly invite different services to join us and share learning. If you are unable to attend, the presentations and a transcript are available after the session so all volunteers have access to the same training.
If there are specific services you would like to know more about, please email parentchampions@norfolk.gov.uk. The Parent Champion Coordinator can look to invite these services. The Parent Champion coordinator sends out a joining link a few days before the coffee morning takes place.
Volunteer Passport training programme - online or face-to-face
Voluntary Norfolk and Adult Learning have partnered to deliver the Norfolk Volunteer Passport programme. This training programme helps volunteers gain knowledge and skills to help you find new roles more quickly and move more easily between volunteering roles.
Search for Volunteer Passport course
PEEP TALK training
PEEP TALK is aimed at any practitioners working with parents of young children aged 18 months to 4-years-old, who are seeking speech and language support.
This one-day training equips practitioners to:
- Expand their knowledge, skills and understanding in supporting parents with their young child's communication and language development, including those who are concerned about delayed language development
- Use the Peep TALK programme as a flexible toolkit, offering parents strategies and activities to boost their children's language and communication during everyday interactions in the home learning environment
- Deliver Peep TALK sessions with parents and children together, in one-to-one or group sessions.
Find PEEP Talk training dates and book your place
Secondhand smoke: promoting smokefree homes and cars
This e-learning module provides you with information on the health effects of secondhand smoke as well as training on how to deliver effective interventions to manage exposure to secondhand smoke. The training should take you less than 30 minutes to complete. Visit the NCSCT e-learning module.
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