HENRY home page About HENRY * Why is HENRY needed? * Supporting the national agenda HENRY training courses * Core training * Group facilitation training * Let's Get Healthy with HENRY * Training for trainers * Refresher courses * Course evaluation & trainees' views HENRY e-learning HENRY resources * The HENRY handbook * HENRY toolkit with the Glugs * Tuning in to Mealtimes DVD The HENRY team HENRY – the charity and  limited company Contact us Core training The core HENRY training is a 2-day course that offers insights into our own lifestyle as well as practical ways of supporting families to adopt a healthier way of life. It takes a partnership approach – between trainers and trainees as well as between practitioners and families. Like all HENRY courses, it is light-hearted with a serious purpose, informal and interactive, sharing practitioners’ knowledge and skills as well as exploring how to enhance these. The course includes demonstrations and the opportunity to practise new skills, introduces a toolkit of family-friendly resources, and a DVD on how to feed babies and toddlers in ways that promote healthy eating habits. This course is offered to Sure Start Children’s Centre teams, helping to foster a consistent and coherent approach both in interactions with families and within the Centre, and to multi-disciplinary groups of health and community practitioners. We are always glad to discuss how best to tailor a course to meet the needs of individual groups.

HENRY training courses HENRY offers a variety of courses and opportunities for individuals, teams and organisations. The training is practical, interactive, reflective, flexible and fun, and explores effective ways of working with parents both in adopting a healthy lifestyle and in parent support more generally. Participants are provided with a toolkit of imaginative resources to augment their work. For those working directly with babies and preschool children, support and encouragement is provided to help them develop an environment that is more resilient to obesogenic influences. Group facilitation training The 2-day group facilitation course has been designed for practitioners who wish to develop their group facilitation skills and offer the 8-week Let’s Get Healthy with HENRY programme to parents and carers. To take part in this training, participants must have already attended the core training course. Let's Get Healthy with HENRY This 8-week programme has been designed to cover the key lifestyle areas with groups of parents and carers. Each session begins with family time and young children are then cared for while parents/carers explore the topic of the week. Participants receive the HENRY toolkit and supporting materials. Training for trainers course Training is now available to organisations who wish to offer HENRY training more widely. This is a rigorous scheme for individuals who are already experienced in facilitative training, and who have additional experience in the Family Partnership Approach and /or solution focused support. The training process involves observing HENRY courses, a 2-day training for trainers to practise delivery skills, co-leading with an experienced HENRY trainer, a supervised training to assess readiness and on-going support. Refresher courses, supervision and support Lifestyle change and obesity are difficult and sensitive areas, and practitioners and trainers value the opportunity to attend top-up sessions to review their skills and address challenges.

Course evaluation & trainees' views All our training courses have been fully evaluated. Here is some feedback  that we have received from trainees. It is gratifying to find that trainees also report a marked increase in their confidence around working with parents on obesity and lifestyle issues. This chart shows how confidence levels change following training.