Relationships with families are key in being able to best support children and their families through a collaborative partnership. During this webinar, we explore how to engage with families to establish trusting and respectful relationships. We also explore communication and the barriers this can create in building these robust relationships with families. We acknowledge the parent as the expert of their child and how we can learn from families to provide the best possible care and learning opportunities for children through a collaborative partnership.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore the importance of trusting and respectful relationships with families
• Understand how communication can create barriers to a robust relationship with families.
• Understand the importance of parents as the experts of their child.
• How to create an inclusive approach with families to build a collaborative partnership for the benefit of the child, family and educators.

Training Presenter: Kirralea Lyneham – Children First Training

Kirralea is a genuine advocate for the wellbeing of children, specialising in training child protection, children’s health & safety, guiding & supporting children’s behaviour and wellbeing. She lives and breathes early childhood education and it shines in her training.

Working as both a Trainer and Educator, she loves bringing her training to life with real and current experiences to support the learning of educators.

Kirralea has 25 years experience in the Early Childhood sector as an ECT, Manager and Director in Long Day Care and Preschool services – including working in a remote community on Magnetic Island in North Queensland. She has also enjoyed teaching at TAFE NSW and Open Colleges as both a Trainer and Assessor.