Parental Presence Star
For supporting families resisting harmful behaviour
Who is the Parental Presence Star for?
The Parental Presence Star was developed for parents engaging in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) or other similar approaches as a way to turn around and manage a home or family situation that has become unsafe, risky or otherwise unacceptable.
This Star is for all those in a parenting role, including foster carers, adoptive or step-parents, those offering supported placements or other carers. The Parental Presence Star was also successfully piloted with parents of children in a residential children’s home, where the parents had active engagement in the approach.
The Star helps them and the people supporting them identify progress towards key outcomes like dealing with difficult situations, parental presence and our family relationships, and give clarity on where to focus next.
Using the Outcomes Star approach
The Parental Presence Star is designed to be used as part of the Outcomes Star approach. That’s why we provide essential training and ongoing support to all licenced practitioners, so you can embed the Outcomes Star approach in your practice.
How does the Parental Presence Star work?
The Parental Presence Star covers seven key outcome areas that help support parents to resist harmful behaviour, and assesses their progress towards each following a five-stage Journey of Change.
You and the people you support will fill out the Star together, and use it to better identify where their strengths lie and where they might need more help, and to make plans for moving forward along the journey.
Outcome areas
Looking after myself
Our community of support
Dealing with difficult situations
Parental presence
Our family relationships
How I feel
How my child is doing
The Journey of Change
01
Stuck
02
Starting a new approach
03
Small positive signs
04
Building skills and confidence
05
Managing well
Always rooted in expertise and experience
The Parental Presence Star was developed in collaboration with PartnershipProjects. The process involved practitioners, managers and parents with lived experience.
