Our team is seeking facilitators for our study, “Improving the Health of Parents and Their Adolescent and Transition-Age Youth with IDD”. The study focuses on comparing outcomes of two established parent activation interventions designed for parents/caregivers of youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Parent Activation is an important and growing concept in child health care relating to a parent’s knowledge, confidence, and willingness to act concerning their child’s health, and has an established evaluation metric.
The Role
We are seeking trainees/fellows (graduate students in psychology, education, etc.) who will support parent group facilitation via an online platform using an existing manualized intervention. This is an opportunity for skill building, leadership development, earning hours towards academic credits or licensure, contributing to research, and providing a much needed clinical/community service. Our parent intervention groups have been running successfully for 12 months and our existing cadre of LEND fellows and facilitators have described the opportunity as enriching and rewarding.
Responsibilities
The commitment would be to participate in training on the intervention and facilitate the groups, which involves 1-2 hours per week (weeknight evenings and/or weekend morning).
All training and group facilitation takes place virtually, and each group intervention runs for 4 weeks, although we hope facilitators would be available for more than one group series.
While our funder requirements do not allow for reimbursement of our group facilitators, past facilitators have found this very useful in career development and reported high satisfaction with the experience.
Please contact Scott Davis at scott_davis@unc.edu if interested.