How to support parents with intellectual disability to meet their parenting goals

Parents with intellectual disability are a diverse population group who have many different strengths and strategies for parenting. These parents can support their children’s development and wellbeing and, like all parents, may need support from their family, community and services at times. Parents with intellectual disability can experience social and structural challenges that affect their parenting capacity and access to supports. These challenges can contribute to misunderstandings about their ability to parent and may lead to critical support needs being missed.

Evidence is emerging on how practitioners can best support positive outcomes for parents with intellectual disability and their children. Evidence suggests that using a strengths- and relationship-based approach that prioritises parents’ voices and wishes is important when working with these families.

This webinar will help you:

understand that parents with intellectual disability are capable of supporting their children’s development and wellbeing
develop a better understanding of the structural and social challenges that parents with intellectual disability can experience
understand the importance of a strengths-based approach that prioritise parent’s voices when working with parents with intellectual disability
learn key principles and strategies to support parents with intellectual disability with their parenting.

This webinar will interest practitioners who work in the child and family sector or allied health professionals who may work with a parent with intellectual disability.

This webinar is co-produced by CFCA at AIFS and Emerging Minds in a series focusing on children’s mental health. They are working together as part of the Emerging Minds: National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, which is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care under the National Support for Child and Youth Mental Health Program.