Building Foundations for Children's Lives
Training professionals in evidence-based strategies to support parents and teachers.
Our programmes teach practitioners to support the needs of all children, both neurodiverse and neurotypical to achieve the best outcomes possible. Our programmes are designed to be cost-effective, and easy to implement and scale. invest in play® is an international not-for-profit organisation and programmes and training are available in multiple languages.
Working with parents
Support parents/caregivers by providing the most current, culturally relevant, evidence-based strategies to help their children increase social skills and emotional regulation; and to reduce parenting stress and family conflict.
Working with teachers/educators
Train teachers to use the most effective, culturally appropriate, evidence-based strategies to create inclusive classrooms which improve children's social and emotional competence and teacher well-being.
Attend one of our workshops
Workshops and Masterclasses
Available Workshops, Masterclasses and Supervision
You can book places below if there is availability. If there is not a training in your location or you are interested in training a group of staff, in your local area, please enquire about group rates at info@investinplay.com
The Six Bricks for Kids
Our unique research-based model that is easy to implement and scale
The Six Bricks for Kids model, outlines evidence-based strategies that help parents and caregivers build a strong foundation for children's lives. These include:
Play and positive attention to create solid adult-child relationships and trust.
Support for children's learning skills, social skills and emotion regulation.
Caring boundaries that create a predictable and safe framework for children to thrive.
Self-regulation strategies for caregivers and children.
Learn more about Six Bricks for Kids
Based on Evidence: Research and Theory
invest in play® is based on over 50 years of theory and research about parent and teacher training. This has produced a wealth of information about effective prevention and treatment for reducing children’s challenging behaviours and increasing social emotional resilience
Become a facilitator and part of our community
Join an international network of experts in the field who share the goal of implementing and scaling evidence-based interventions to children.
Bring investinplay to your community
We work with global communities who wish to adopt the programme. These cultural adaptations are created in response to community needs and may be based on language, nationality, racial, ethnic and cultural context.
