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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.

Bring the Confident Parent Course to your school
Add on the Confident Teacher Course

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Schools Podcasts

Let Them Be: Resisting the Rush to Pathologise Adolescence with Dr. Briony Scott

  • podcasts
  • 03/09/2025
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Briony Scott, renowned educator and advocate for young people, to unpack the growing tendency to pathologise normal teenage emotions. Are we too quick to label sadness as depression or worry as anxiety? Briony explores how this rush to intervene can sometimes do more harm than good—and what…
Schools Podcasts

Partners, Not Strangers: How to Build a Positive Relationship with Your Child’s School

  • podcasts
  • 05/08/2025
This episode explores how parents can become confident, empowered partners in their child’s education. Through insights from an educator and head of student wellbeing, we unpack the real challenges both parents and teachers face when trying to connect—and what helps bridge the gap. You’ll hear practical strategies for building trust, improving communication, and creating a…
Schools Podcasts

How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence

  • podcasts
  • 05/03/2024
Episode Transcript In this Episode of the Parent Hope Podcast Jenny Brown  explores  “How parents can partner with schools to increase student and family confidence” with Robin Shultz. What makes for a positive partnership between parents and schools?What can get in the way of this?How can parents best deal with worries about how their child…
Schools Podcasts

Parenting Courses – Are they worth the effort? Lessons from an experienced Community Parent Educator

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  • 12/12/2023
In this episode, we will discuss parenting courses with a family skills community educator. We’ll explore what parents get out of carving out time for parenting courses – and are all parenting courses the same?          How can parents get a confidence boost from accessing a parenting course?   Steve will share…
Schools Podcasts

How parents, educators and helping professionals can contribute to children’s flourishing

  • podcasts
  • 09/12/2019
This talk was presented by Dr Jenny Brown in Dec 2018 at the school presentation day for PLC Sydney. It was delivered at the Sydney Opera House. Jenny reflects on how flourishing emerges from solid internal character, to connect genuinely with others and to self-regulate and self-direct.  She proposes that the more parents and other…
Schools

How the worry cycle plays out in schools

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  • 28/06/2023
Levels of diagnosis for behavioural and learning difficulties are incredibly high, often with 50% of kids on specialised learning plans. How can schools keep up with this demand? Is the worry cycle contributing to this phenomenon in schools?

Other School Options

Confident Teacher Course

Support teachers to use the Parent Hope principles in their classroom

  • Professional learning for teachers, using a family systems approach to enhance classroom management and engage students.
  • Based on parts 1 and 3 of the Confident Parent Course, focusing on your energy direction and the “I position” will support teachers in classroom management and shifting their focus back to what is in their control.
  • Facilitators of the Confident Parent Course can run this training for teachers.
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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. 
Manualised Clinical Intervention

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 book

Frequently 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 the course 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.
  • Optional: consider the Confident Teacher Course to complement the parent course in your school, and support teachers.

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.

Each person/facilitator will need to purchase their own training, no sharing of logins is allowed. Discounts are available for multiple facilitators.
The co-facilitator option is available and provides basic theory training and access to the Confident Parent Course for other staff supporting the main facilitator.

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