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Refresher Training for Foster Carers

Refresher Training for Foster Carers

Why is Refresher Training Important? Have you ever noticed how our brains like to delete information it thinks we no longer need? – If we don’t use it we lose it. Refresher training helps keep important knowledge fresh and current. Most of us need to review important concepts from time to time. Refresher courses enable […]

Autism and Sexuality

Autism training

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1563202052504{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Autism and Sexuality – empowering training for concerned carers [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1563204051238{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] For those caring for autistic young people, this subject can feel overwhelming Most would agree that “Sexuality” encompasses a broad range of overt and intangible qualities, including communication, emotional awareness, self-expression, personal space, physical sensation. These are […]

A Trauma-Informed Approach for Children’s Home Staff

A Trauma-Informed Approach for Children's Home Staff

  What is a Trauma-Informed Approach? For those caring for children within a residential setting, having a trauma-informed approach means understanding how traumatic experiences such as abuse, neglect and multiple placement breakdowns shape a child’s development, and therefore their thoughts feelings and behaviours. As well as developmental difficulties and attachment disorders, a young person’s trauma […]

A Trauma-Informed Approach for Drug Workers

Trauma-Informed Approach

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1554994818345{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] What is a Trauma-Informed Approach? [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1554995989465{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]For drug workers, having a trauma-informed approach means having an understanding of the experiences that have contributed to the service user’s development. In cases where service users experienced a high degree of trauma or abuse in their childhood, additional training in these […]

What is Enhanced (or Therapeutic) Fostering?

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[vc_row][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1553524615024{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] What is Enhanced Fostering? Enhanced Fostering, often called Therapeutic Fostering, is the type of care needed for children that have experienced a high degree of trauma and/or abuse in their life. This trauma is often compounded by the fact that they have been through several failed placements – often both […]

Trauma-Informed Practice: Understanding Trauma

Trauma-Informed Practice

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1554210294645{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Understanding Trauma – the first step to a Trauma-Informed Practice Trauma-Informed Practice is key when working with children and young people who have suffered neglect, rejection or abuse. Without support to work through trauma, they will continue to experience neurological, developmental and psychological consequences, even when placed in a secure nurturing environment. […]

Child Radicalisation

child radicalisation, radicalisation awareness training, radicalisation of young people, radicalisation course

Child Radicalisation You may have heard the term Radicalisation in relation to terrorist attacks, but what does child radicalisation really mean and why do you need to know about it? In this post we seek to answer some key questions about Child Radicalisation and provide you with several places to go for more in-depth information […]

Blended Learning Suite

Trauma Informed Care

May sees the launch of our Blended Learning suite Our Blended Learning is informed by Judith Lewis Herman’s model of the healingprocess as presented in her book “Trauma and Recovery”. ( Trauma and Recovery, Judith Lewis Herman) Our graphic is a representaion of that journey. We have designed out first 3 Blended Learning packages specifically […]

Childhood Trauma Recovery (part 1 of 3)

Childhood Trauma

Childhood Trauma Recovery and the importance of the Therapeutic Alliance When creating our training suite around Childhood Trauma, we found it useful to map it against the model of healing presented by Judith Herman in her book “Trauma and Recovery”. The model she presents is for people struggling with problems related to abusive or traumatic […]

How To Use Your Training Budget Effectively

How To Use Your Training Budget Effectively

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1555071346726{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”] Do you get value for money when commissioning training? You know that your training budget has been used effectively when the learning needs of everybody in the training room are met. Sadly, this is often not the case. The problem lies in the fact that within any live training group it […]

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