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F-words Foundations for families & service providers training program

Project Overview

CanChild’s ‘F-words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on WHO concepts, they present a holistic, strengths-based, function-promoting, family-centred approach to child health. These ideas have captured the attention of families and service providers (SPs) worldwide. The uptake of the F-words, and requests for workshops, have created a pressing need to expand F-words training. With family and SP co-applicants, we propose to create a new online F-Words Foundations Training Program for Families and Service Providers. We aim to assess two versions of our new online program:1) a self-paced program that people complete on their own, and 2) the self-paced program plus five hours of synchronous small group training with a facilitator parent, SP, and researcher (the facilitated model). We will evaluate and compare the impact of the two programs on (i) participants’ perceived knowledge, attitudes, and use of the F-words; (ii) self-reported family empowerment, parenting confidence, and perceptions of family-centred service; and (iii) acceptability, appropriateness, and feasibility of the programs. We expect that F-words training for families and SPs will increase people’s knowledge and use of the F-words, and in turn, enhance services and supports for families, children, and youth.

Principal Investigator

Peter Rosenbaum , McMaster University

Team Members

Andrea Cross, McMaster University

Rachel Teplicky, McMaster University

Partners and Donors

Kids Brain Health Network

Ontario Ministry of Children, Community, and Social Services (MCCSS)

Project Ongoing

F-words Foundations for families & service providers training program

  • Program Type

    Team grants

  • Area of research

    Neurodevelopment

  • Competition

    KBHN Strategic Investment Fund

  • Province

    Ontario

  • Start Date

    2022

  • Total Grant Amount

    $555,291

  • Health Canada Contribution

    $277,631

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+1 (514) 989-2989 info@braincanada.ca

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The offices of Brain Canada Foundation are located on the traditional, ancestral territory of the Kanien'kehá:ka Peoples, a place which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst nations. We honour and pay respect to elders past, present and emerging, and dedicate ourselves to moving forward in the spirit of partnership, collaboration, and reconciliation. In our work, we focus our efforts on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action, particularly those that pertain to improving health for Indigenous Peoples and that focus on advancing our own learning on Indigenous issues.

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