Restoration Intensive Practice: preparing children, young people and their families before, during and after restoration.
Participants will appreciate the need for preparation and support of children and their families before, during and after restoration, particularly as children and their families have experienced many layers of trauma. Foster carers can be central to providing the support children need during restoration and supporting and coaching birth families to demonstrate progress in the six domains of quality contact or family time. Workers will recognise the practice of partnering and...
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Implementing Trauma Informed Practice in Out-of-Home Care
Please note: This course is only available VIA CREDIT CARD payment at the time of registration. Invoice is not available. This course covers the following topics Educating and informing carers about the effects of developmental trauma on children in out-of-home care Applying an understanding of developmental trauma to positive behaviour support Supporting carers to understand and develop reparative parenting skills and techniques Understanding the link between trauma of separation...
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Leading and Supervising Preservation and Restoration Process – implementation and embedding practice
This course lays out the implementation foundations underpinning good restoration service delivery and practice within teams/units. It is a highly interactive workshop that explores leading structural and cultural changes required as well as supervising restoration casework through leadership, supervision and case consultations. Stage 1 – 1 day workshop Content: Introduction to foundation ideas underpinning implementation science and practice Analysing current assets and areas of...
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Working with Complexity and the Implications for Restoration Assessment and Safety Planning Practice
This is the foundation course that lays out the theory and evidence underpinning the dynamics of common and complex risk factors that influence assessment and case planning work activities undertaken by restoration practitioners in their work with families. This highly interactive workshop is delivered as: 2 × 1 day workshops (can be face to face or online) 2 × 2 hour group coaching sessions delivered online Stage 1 – 2 × 1 day workshops (can be face to face or online) Content...
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Enhancing Parental Capacity for Change in Restoration Work
This is the foundation course that lays out the principles and practices of positive psychology, strength-based, solution focused, motivational interviewing to promote parental willingness, ability and confidence to change. It is a highly interactive practice-based workshop delivered in 2 stages. Stage 1 – 2 × 1 day workshops (can be face to face or online) Content: Introduction to strength based, solution focused guiding principles Introduction to Hope theory and the concept of...
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Working with Young People who Self Restore
This workshop takes a whole of family approach to promoting safety, stability and permanency for young people self-restoring to unprepared families. This highly interactive workshop invites participants to assess the needs and strengths and safety plan with a young person, their family and network, using own case examples. It is delivered in two stages. Stage 1 – 3 hour workshop delivered online Content: Overview of research and evidence about young people self-restoring from care,...
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Joining the Restoration Dots: Connecting Casework to SDM® SARA outcomes to Family Time to Family Action Case Planning
This is the foundation course that lays out the connections between SARA assessments, the Family Action Plan, Family (Contact) Time and documenting evidence of change for S90 applications. This is a highly interactive workshop, calling on participants' own casework for exploration. The two hour coaching session to be held 3 weeks after the workshop will bring practitioners and supervisors together to debrief practice experiences, share learning, solution finding for ‘wicked little...
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Connecting Families
This 4-day, highly interactive Connecting Families training is an adapted version of Kevin Campbell’s Family Finding, Family Seeing model and is intended as a collection of tools, strategies, and materials to support professionals in their efforts to strengthen broken connections between youth, family, and community. The Family Finding, Family Seeing model acknowledges the critical importance of parents, relatives, and other caring people within a child or young person’s life; and...
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Introduction Conducting Investigative Interviews with Children When Allegations Have Been Made Against Staff About Reportable Conduct or Professional Misconduct
Speaking with children is often a daily activity for many professionals working in child related employment and many of the skills, knowledge and practices used in daily communication with children also apply to more formal investigative interviews with children. This introductory workshop helps participants understand the purpose and structure of a legally acceptable interview with the child and some of the child development implications underpinning good practice. Introduction...
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