Parental Presence Star Training – Outcomes Star
Parental Presence Star Training – Outcomes Star
Train with the leading & award-winning provider of Non-Violent Resistance Training for Professionals
Next Training: Tuesday 4th November 2025
Are you using NVR (Non-Violent Resistance) with parents / carers in a clinical setting?
Are you interested in a way to measure the impact this approach has on the families you support?
If yes, then we’re delighted to introduce you to the Parental Presence Outcomes Star; the first NVR-specific, collaborative outcome measure, part of the Outcomes Star suite of tools with training exclusively available through PartnershipProjects.
About the Parental Presence Star Training
The Parental Presence Star was developed by PartnershipProjects, in collaboration with Triangle Consulting Social Enterprise. The process involved workers, managers and parents with lived experience from across the UK and beyond. The tool was piloted in 2023/24 after which the results were psychometrically validated.
Completing the Parental Presence Star is intended to be a helpful, engaging and empowering process that stimulates and focuses discussion and provides a useful, shared basis for an action or support plan. It is a flexible tool that relies on the skills of the professionals using it, as well as on a degree of understanding and trust between them and the parent. The Star is designed to be used one-to-one where there is support provided over a period of time. The aim is to have a genuine interaction and complete it collaboratively.
Before using the tool, all workers are required to attend training in order that they are familiar with the materials and know when and how to use them. It is vital that you understand and use the Journey of Change underlying the scales – stuck, starting a new approach, small positive signs, building skills and confidence, and managing well. This will ensure consistent and reliable information as a basis for support planning and for use by your service. You also need to be familiar with all the scale descriptions, so you can unpack and rephrase them as needed.
PartnershipProjects is the only organisation that is licensed to offer training in the Parental Presence Star.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understanding the background and development of the Parental Presence Outcomes Star
- The 7 outcome areas
- The five-stage journey of change
- When to start and when to complete the Star
- Using the Outcomes Star Platform
- Confidentiality for your clients
- Understanding the results
About the Parental Presence Star
How does the Parental Presence Star work?
The Parental Presence Star is 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 Parental Presence Star was developed in collaboration with PartnershipProjects. The process involved practitioners, managers and parents with lived experience.
The Parental Presence Star is a holistic, person-centred keywork and measurement tool for practitioners to use in one-to-one support work. Completing the Star is an engaging, empowering and collaborative process that helps you to build an open, trusting relationship with the person that you’re supporting.
The Star aims to create a safe space where genuine conversations can happen and you can explore all relevant aspects of a person’s life, track progress and create a shared basis for an action or support plan.
The Parental Presence Star covers seven 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
What are the benefits of the Outcomes Stars?
How does the Parental Presence Star work?
The Outcomes Stars give you an evidence-based measurement tool to support keyworking in a way that is person-centred, collaborative and trauma-informed.
They work because they are underpinned with a sense of hope – that even when things are challenging, positive change in some way is always possible. Their detail and flexibility helps you to understand what’s likely to work for an individual while giving you more information to help you deliver effective services.
Why are the Outcomes Stars so effective?
- A clearer and more detailed picture of change. The Star measures not only end outcomes – for example gaining employment – but includes broader outcomes such as quality of life.
- An integral part of keywork. The Star is completed collaboratively vs self-reporting or a professional-only tool.
- Supporting action planning. The Star allows you to easily see information about the areas where support is needed and what that support should look like.
- Support for effective service delivery. The Stars help your organisation to deliver support in a holistic, strengths-based and person-centred way.
- Tailored organisational support. Many measurement tools offer little to no support on how to use them. Using an Outcomes Star means you will get tailored support so you can understand whether the Star is a good fit, training so staff can use the Star effectively and access to the Star Online digital platform.
Important Training Information
How much does it cost?
£245+VAT per person
IMPORTANT: Please note that any individual or organisation that wants to use the Parental Presence Star must complete this core training and purchase a license from Outcomes Star. Details of the cost of the license can be found here.
When & Where?
When:
Tuesday 4th November 2025, 9:30am to 4:30pm
(with plenty of breaks)
Where:
Hosted LIVE online via Zoom Pro
The full training agenda for the day will be sent ahead of the day
Who Can Attend?
The workshop is open to practitioners in CAMHS, mental health, social care, education, youth justice and the independent sector, who have already completed their Foundation Level (NVRA Level 1) Training.
Also available for Group Bookings, contact us today for a free no-obligation consultation & quote.
Email: training@partnershipprojectsuk.com
Book now:
Simply complete the below form with as much information as possible and we will be in touch with you in the next few days to discuss joining options. Or if you would prefer to email us directly, you can send email to training@partnershipprojectsuk.com
*Please note that we only allow 10 participants per course therefore there is limited availability. We will do our best to make sure you get booked on to a course, or added to a waiting list for future courses.
Why train with us?
Established in 2006
The first & foremost specialist provider of NVR training & workshops, supervision, and interventions & coaching in the UK
The leading provider in the UK
We've trained more professionals, & supported more families than any other provider
Highly Qualified Trainers & Coaches
Our team hold the highest NVR qualifications available, along with many years’ experience & specialist knowledge
Award Winning
Winners of several prestigious awards such as 'Training Provider of the Year' 2025, and ‘Best NVR Training & Intervention Provider 2025 – UK’
Giving Back to the Community
We give our time with our special interest groups, offer pro-bono work where we can, and donate to relevant charities
Over 1000 Professionals trained each year
Over the last 3 years we have trained over 3000 people
Over 100 families supported each year
Each year we offer individual coaching & group sessions for over 100 families
4.8 Star Average Rating
Amazing feedback and the highest scores for our NVR training
Our company is certified
We are registered with; CPD, Independent Safeguarding CIC, NVR Association (NVRA)
Global Reach
Although we are predominantly in the UK, we have a worldwide reputation with students in many countries around the world
Confidentiality
PartnershipProjects UK (PP) adheres to its confidentiality obligations at all times.
PP encourages all professionals (who may be undertaking any level of NVR training, accessing NVR individual or group supervision, submitting their coursework or attending PP’s accreditation module) be bound by their professional registrations or their service/local authority/organisation policies of confidential working practices.
In all cases, professionals will anonymise any family/parent references, in all cases change genders/ages/status’s when referring to case work examples in training/supervision etc.
Professionals who wish to share families personal information (names/gender etc) in their individual or group NVR supervision must be transparent and inform the families/parents/caregivers before sharing. In this circumstance, professionals must have formal written consent/permission from families/parents/caregivers to use their examples in this way.
Any information shared to PP, will be treated in line with current GDPR guidelines as per our Data Protection Policy which can be found on the following link; https://www.
