Benefits

This online course is designed to support organisations to:

• empower parents and carers to feel better equipped to manage the journey of parenting
• help parents and carers raise resilient children and prevent mental health difficulties
• help address the stressors that impact work-life balance and hinder employee performance and retention
• improve workplace culture by demonstrating a commitment to employee wellbeing and family life
• offer employees a flexible, self-paced programme with expert guidance, designed to fit busy schedules
• create an inclusive workplace culture helping improve employee productivity and reduce absence.

46% of working parents worry about their children’s mental health, of these parents, 20% took days off to care for them, 21% reported lower productivity at work, and 15% sought job changes for better hours or proximity to home (Deloitte, 2024).

Organisations need practical, scalable solutions that reduce stress for working parents and improve overall employee wellbeing and engagement.

We partner with organisations to offer this course as a corporate benefit, creating a win-win for both employees and employers.

Course content and modules

The course consists of six modules, each focusing on a specific parenting skill. These skills will help parents and carers to improve their relationships with their children and respond effectively to challenging behaviours. Each module is split into convenient 15-minute sections, ideal for busy working parents.

Modules

1. Connecting: How to build a strong bond with your child.
2. Praise and Reward: How to encourage desired behaviours.
3. Selective Ignoring: How to discourage unwanted behaviours.
4. Clear Instructions: How to ensure your child understands what is expected of them.
5. Boundaries and Consequences: How to set limits in advance in an effective way.
6. Time Out to calm down: How to manage extreme behaviours.

What do you get?

When signing up to our Parenting Smart Online Course, you will get access to:

• online modules with dedicated Place2Be professionals to join discussions and aid online learning
• dynamic and safe learning community offering the opportunity to learn from other parents’ and carers’ experiences
• outcomes evaluation and engagement report
• dedicated registration page and registration coordination
• digital promotional toolkit.

What do other people say?

Read what others have to say about the course and find out how this course can help parents and carers in your organisation.

"I really liked and enjoyed the course. It is very practical; it helps to model parents’ behaviour for children. It clears up all the grey areas and turns them into structured and manageable parts of relationship with the child. The course indeed stimulate growth and personal development for a parent, and improves the child’s life as well as the parent’s."

"I am doing much better as a parent than before, practicing what I've learnt from this programme. I see that I am much calmer when I see certain behaviours in my children. This is because I've changed my approach to them, and I'm beginning to see fewer behaviours I didn't like. They are also putting in effort because now we communicate better the things we want to see with each other."

"I must say these modules have been a great help, with the end drawing near I'm going to miss the sessions....it has felt like online therapy which is much needed!!!!!😊"

Background

We worked closely with the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust to turn the Personalised Individual Parent Training (PIPT) to a convenient online course.

Since 2022, the online programme has been used in Place2Be's partner schools with strong outcomes, including improved parental self-efficacy which has a strong positive correlation with children's wellbeing.