Yes, of course! Please refer to the start dates and registration cut off dates below. You will have approximately one month to complete a course, dipping in and out when convenient for you.

Once registered, you will receive an email from us to access the course on the day it opens. 

We are forever learning, and we certainly didn’t get a manual when we had our own children. Some of us learnt through trial and error, and we basically parented how our caregivers parented us. Thanks to the science available, we now know how the brain develops and what we can do to build healthy brains.

All children who come into care have developmental trauma to some degree.  They have missed some of the nurturing they needed in their early years, and so the architecture of their brain has been impacted. To heal our tamariki we need to change our traditional parenting to become more therapeutic. Our training will give you the therapeutic skills you need to build the relationship and help your child heal.

We are introducing a Training Framework over the next year. (The courses we are releasing now fall into the Foundational Level.)

Eventually our Training will be broken down into three levels;

1. Foundational
2. Progressive – Intermediate
3. Advanced

Each level will have three tiers to it, with each tier containing four courses. Once you have finished a tier you will receive a certificate, and once you have completed 12 courses you will receive a Caring Families Aotearoa level qualification.

We will provide more information in the coming months as we release more courses.

If you are worried about the technical side, you can call us for support. We can talk you through it so you feel confident to get underway. Call 0800 693 323 for some friendly guidance.  

Yes, but we recommend you check first the estimated completion time for each course to ensure you are able to finish them by the due date.

Yes. Our Regional Coordinators can deliver an online course in a group setting. We would ideally like to have a minimum of six participants. Please contact our Training Coordinator HERE to enquire.

We can provide our training to any group, including schools, social workers, NGOs, Iwi social services and other professionals working in the social service sector. All our training is based on Dyadic Developmental Practice (DDP) using an attitude of PACE. Please contact our Training Coordinator HERE to enquire.

We recognise that many caregivers prefer face-to-face training. Unfortunately, we are a small team, operating on a limited budget, so do not currently have the capacity to deliver all our training courses in person across the country like we used to.  

We hope that our new self-directed online learning makes it easier for our caregivers to complete a course in the comfort of their own home, at their own pace.

The key information from our old courses has been broken down into smaller chunks and we will be releasing them over the next year.