It hopes to expand training from the current base, predominantly comprising social workers, to other children's professionals such as drug and alcohol workers.
The charity already runs family group conferences in eight of Scotland's local authorities, including Aberdeen City, East Lothian and Fife, and hopes more councils will adopt the system.
The conferences bring parents together with members of the wider family, such as aunts, uncles and grandparents, and even close friends, to decide on a family plan for the care and protection of a child.
Margaret McKay, the charity's chief executive, said: "At the moment, it is the exception rather than the rule that an FGC service is available to a vulnerable family. We want this to change, and will work to establish family group conferencing as a mainstream service.
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