If you can control your behaviour when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding... and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
- Jane Clayson Johnson, I Am a Mother
Non-violent resistance
NVR
For parents experiencing child- to- parent abuse
Eight week course
Sometimes parents or carers are afraid of their child under the age of 18 years old. This can be because of abusive or violent behaviour at home used by the child which means that parents or carers feel they cannot be the kind of parent they would like to be.
Non Violent Resistance is an evidence-based, non-blaming, empowering and relatively short-term intervention model that empowers parents and people working with them to take positive action to end the abusive and/or violent behaviour of a child. It also helps through respecting and protecting children and all family members.
Course content
Participants are guided through a set of core principles that are adaptable to many situations by breaking the cycle of violent and destructive behaviour.
This equips the parents with confidence and self-control which enables them to address these behaviours in an effective manner.
Please contact Ciara O’Shea, Family Support Worker in Connect on 0892084483 or Pamela in East Coast Family Resource Centre on 0876443364 to register to attend this course or to request further information. All inquiries are managed in the utmost confidence and sensitive manner. For further information, please see our confidentiality policy and procedure.