Project Description
F-Words Training Project Summary: Functioning, Family, Fitness, Fun, Friends, and Future
CanChild’s ‘F‐words for Child Development’ offer a fresh way for everyone to look at health. Based on World Health Organization (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 worldwide.
The uptake of the F‐words, and requests for workshops, have created a pressing need to expand the 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.
The project team aims to assess two versions of our new online program:
- a self‐paced program that people complete on their own, and
- the self‐paced program plus five hours of synchronous small group training with a facilitator parent, service provider, and researcher (the facilitated model)
The project team 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 Foundations Training Program for families and service providers will increase people’s knowledge and use of the F‐words—and in turn, enhance services and supports for families, children, and youth.
Funding Partners
Kids Brain Health Network – $100,000
Brain Canada – $100,000
Ontario Ministry of Children, Community, and Social Services (MCCSS) – $335,291
CanChild – $20,000 in-kind
Contributions as of February 2023
Team
Principal Investigators
Dr. Andrea Cross , McMaster University
Dr. Peter Rosenbaum, McMaster University
Co-Investigators
Dr. Chantal Camden, Université de Sherbrooke
Alice Kelen Soper, McMaster University
Vanessa Tomas, University of Toronto
Rachel Teplicky, McMaster University
Dr. Jonathan Weiss, York University
Collaborators
Julie Brocklehurst, Parent Partner
Dr. Danijela Grahovac, McMaster University
Heather Oliver-Hamilton, Children’s Treatment Network
Kim Hesketh, Children’s Treatment Network
JoAnne Mosel, Parent Partner
Sara Pot, Parent Partner
Joleen Castle, KidsInclusive
Marilyn Wright, McMaster University
Kasia Świeczkowska, Parent Partner
