Training Opportunities

In addition to providing our own highly effective training programme for carers and social workers, we also go to other agencies, local authorities and schools to deliver training. Liza Lomax, our Director of Therapy and Support Services, is one of the team that created the Akamas on-line fostering course, and delivers face-to-face training both here and elsewhere in the UK.

Courses for Carers:

• Beginning where the child is: an introduction to caring for children and young people with emotional impairments
• Attachment and Trauma: Understanding attachment, the impact of unmet attachment needs, and planning a programme for recovery
• Safer caring
• Caring for children who have been sexually abused
• Managing and working constructively with impulsive behaviour I
• Managing and working constructively with impulsive behaviour II
• Surviving and thriving: increasing carers’ self-awareness and in particular increasing awareness of secondary traumatic stress disorders
• Supporting the education of a child or young person in care
• Child protection
• Formal and informal life story work
• Making sense of contact
• Substance misuse and self-harm: helping young people to manage maladaptive behaviour
• Creating a healing environment: enabling children to recover from trauma
• Fostering and the Law
• Endings and transitions: achieving successful outcomes to placement moves and endings
• Independence or interdependence? Helping young people to make the transition to adult living
• Siblings in placement
• Attachment disorders
• Safer IT use for children
• Parent and Child Placements

Courses for Social Workers

• Supervising carers to develop and support their therapeutic work

Courses for teachers and TAs

• Understanding the impact of trauma on the child in the classroom

For more information and costing, click here