Explore the effect of ENVISAGE-SP: Creating opportunities to change how service providers think, talk about, and approach childhood disability.

ENVISAGE-SP is a co-designed translation of the ENVISAGE-Families program. The ENVISAGE-Families workshops aim to provide families with information about the new and different ways we are thinking about childhood disability. Our overall aim is to empower parents to take a strengths-based approach to their child and family’s situation; help parents feel connected and supported; provide tools and resources to help them get what they need at the time they need it; and help parents feel confident when making decisions about their child and family. ENVISAGE-SP is designed for service providers - those providing health, disability of social services to parents/caregivers raising children with a disability, for example, therapists, physicians, paediatricians, social workers. ENVISAGE-SP online workshops address the following themes: • WORKSHOP 1: New ways of thinking about HEALTH • WORKSHOP 2: Child, Sibling and Family DEVELOPMENT • WORKSHOP 3: PARENTING: a dance led by the children • WORKSHOP 4: Attending to FAMILY WELLBEING • WORKSHOP 5: COMMUNICATING, COLLABORATING, CONNECTING Participants will be asked to work through the pre-workshop activities (1-hour per week), as well as engage in weekly one-hour online facilitated discussions (for 5 weeks total). ENVISAGE-SP will be delivered through an online educational platform (Moodle -https://envisagenetwork.net). It will involve five online (synchronous) 60-minute facilitated discussions, weekly review of workshop materials including written and online resources (e.g., videos, podcasts, publications, etc.), and online individual reflection exercises that are provided on the learning platform with personal/professional reflections collated by participants in a private structured workbook. The total time commitment over the 12 months (including the quantitative evaluation component) is ~20 hours (+2 additional hours for participants who agree to be interviewed post-program, for a total=22hrs). The interviews will be conducted by an investigator not involved in delivery of the program, and conducted online using video-conference technology. Each online workshop discussion will be facilitated by a country-specific parent and a clinician-researcher. Participants will have access to all the workshop materials and the online discussion board to share resources and post questions for up to one year following completion of the program. Adherence to the program is monitored by (i) attendance records at online discussions; (ii) review of web analytics related to time using the online learning resources; and (iii) completion of data collection at each time point.