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This Adverse Childhood Experience Training (ACE) addresses the contemporary concern for social care and health organisations internationally. There is a growing amount of evidence showing that the experiences we receive during childhood can significantly affect us through the course of our lives. A groundbreaking study carried out in California in the mid-90s identified that children who experience a stressful and miserable childhood are more likely to develop self-defeating behaviours in adulthood. In a follow-up study, they identified that Adverse Childhood Experiences are not just a health concern, but that children who are currently experiencing ACE are more likely to perform poorly in education, become involved in antisocial behaviour and partake in substance abuse.

The longitudinal study also identified the cyclical nature of ACE and that trauma can become intergenerational. As professionals, we can reduce the impact of these traumatic events by developing a trauma-informed approach.

This Adverse Childhood Experience Training supports a paradigm shift from “What is wrong with them?” to “What have they lived through, and how has this shaped their development?”

This course enables learners to recognise, understand and manage behaviour in vulnerable children in an effective trauma informed way. It explains anger, what it might look like, and how can learn to recognise it. The course also presents a description of stress, the brain, behaviours and helps learners to develop methods to help avoid and minimise the need for physical intervention.

This is an online module with 5 online sessions (1.5 hours each) :  In booking this training you are commiting to attend all 5 sessions.

This series of workshops is aimed at introducing parents and carers to online risks, resilience and raising their understanding of young people’s experiences and perspective. They then examine the significance of social media and digital technologies in young people’s lives and relationships and offers a systematic and evidence-informed approach for safeguarding young people online. 

The aim is to enhance parents and carers digital parenting skills with a focus on early identification of risks, promoting digital resilience and achieving digital well-being in a developmentally appropriate manner. This also offers a practical approach to working with trauma and supporting young people’s positive development. 

Level 1 training is the starting point for learning Makaton. It is recommended for:

parents, family members, carers and workers who need to use Makaton at home and in their work
participants who need a more detailed knowledge about using and applying Makaton to develop the communication skills of others.

Level 1 training provides a practical introduction to the Makaton Language Programme.

Sessions include discussing commonly asked questions, hints and tips for effective signing and symbol use and how to start using Makaton in everyday situations at home or work.

You will also learn the signs and symbols from Stages 1 and 2, and some of the Additional stage, of the Core Vocabulary.

Trauma informed model of care (TIMOC) training is aimed at social workers, personal advisors and foster carers working with children and young people who experienced trauma. The training will explain the impact of trauma on our body and how our mind processes information,help participants in the training to better understand behaviour often linked to you people who have experienced trauma. The Training will cover signs and symptoms of trauma adding assessments of young people's needs in this area. The training then goes onto explore how to meet the care needs of these young people, with practical advice for everyday care. Simple direct tools which can be used by all will also be explained. The course will also cover Fast Feet, explaining this theraputic intervention.

How should attend: Social Workers, personal advisors and foster carers working with children and young people who have experienced trauma.

Deaf Awareness workshop for Staff and Volunteers in their work with vulnerable service users, families, and colleagues.

Delivered by Signs4Life -Award-winning Signs4Life is leading efforts towards a society in which people with disabilities have full access and are working to raise the public and political awareness of disability provision

This course is for all carers and residentual staf who have an interest in this area. The course will cover information on a range of substances and their effects. It also covers the signs and symptoms of substance misuse and when medial help is required. It also identifies how substances are used and why young people use substances. Delegates will also learn some of the legal aspects of taking substances and details about supporting agencies.

This training aims to help participants have a good understanding of anxiety and the impact on looked after children and provide them with strategies to help support young people to manage their anxieties

The training is made up of 2 sections:
1. Prior to the work shop taking place you will be sent a training video to watch and asked to make notes on the questions presented in it.

2. The workshop will then take the form of a question and answer session, looking at the training you've watched and the questions you bring to the workshop.

This training is being run by CAMHS

Course description

Following the consultation within the framework for the EYFS this new 1 or 2 day PFA (Paediatric Emergency First Aid) course is designed to allow child care settings to have a mixture of staff trained in first aid for children and infants.

Who is the course suitable for?

This new course is for all newly qualified and current people who work in an early years setting, nurseries, preschools and schools and foster carers.

This 2 and half hour virtual workshop is to help managers to support the wellbeing of their staff.