The Faculty of Lifelong Learning at the Institute of Technology Carlow co-created a Level 8 Certificate in Prevention, Partnership and Family Support with Tusla, the national Child and Family Agency. The part time programme was aimed at Child and Family Support Network (CFSN) members in Co. Carlow. The overall approach taken throughout this programme involved the use of specialist guest speakers and was purposively framed around the adult education principles of transformative learning and communities of practice, recognising the social and group cohesion that exists through shared endeavours and commitments of practitioners within CFSNs.