Foster positive partnerships with parents, support student mental health
Empower your school with the Parent Hope Project: family systems courses that build positive parent partnerships, and enhance student wellbeing by reducing anxiety and promoting confidence.
Hybrid online training, with live mentoring, to facilitate the 4-part Confident Parent Course at your school.
Add on the Confident Teacher Course
Free school resources
Let Them Be: Resisting the Rush to Pathologise Adolescence with Dr. Briony Scott
- podcasts
- 03/09/2025
Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School
- podcasts
- 05/08/2025
How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence
- podcasts
- 05/03/2024
Parenting Courses – Are they worth the effort? Lessons from an experienced Community Parent Educator
- podcasts
- 12/12/2023
How parents, educators and helping professionals can contribute to children’s flourishing
- podcasts
- 09/12/2019
Other School Options

School counsellor training to use manualised intervention with parents
Our manualised program can support school counsellors to work with parents of disengaged students.
- Comprehensive training to support parents of disengaged students using our semi-manualised program.
- Live mentoring and practical intervention tools to address school attendance issues via parents and teachers.
- Flexible implementation options for group or individual support.
- Opportunities to collaborate with external professionals trained in the Parent Hope approach.

Speaker for Your School: Dr Jenny Brown
Host Dr Brown for a tailored talk on differentiation-based parenting and teaching strategies – how to best improve children’s resourcefulness and independence.
- Expert insights on differentiation-based parenting and teaching.
- Tailored strategies to address the specific needs of your school community.
- An engaging session with Dr. Brown, known for her impactful approach to emotional health and education.
Note: Limited availability; book well in advance.
Contact our office to bookFrequently asked questions
The overall theme of the Confident Parent Course is when parents’ make a project out of themselves rather than anxiously focussing on their child, this provides developmental ‘breathing space’ for the child, reducing worry and increasing parent confidence.
The 4-part course explores the following questions:
See more about the course here, or a video intro here.
You can start with
- the theory course – Family systems and symptoms in children for an understanding of the family systems approach to parenting
- book in your group mentor sessions, one before and one after completing your training
- watch the Confident Parent Course (either the full video version, or group discussion highlights)
- complete the facilitator training in how to present the course
- Plan how to use your package in your school. Perhaps begin with teacher training, scheduling an initial 1 part parenting courses, followed by the 4 part course for interested parents. Support for this will be provided in the mentor sessions.
Each session of the faith-based version concludes with a short reflection of a relevant bible verse, and the workbook has reflection questions linked to the verse. You are able to skip this part if needed depending on your audience.