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Our Training Programmes are designed
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- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Therapists and other allied disciplines
- Parent Mentors |
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To be sure you secure a place on one of our Training Courses, please apply within 60 days of the start date.
Family Futures' training includes a handbook for each participant on the topic of each course.
Our ratings by course participants over the past 2 years have averaged out at:
COST REDUCTION
Please note that due to the economic climate all our in-house
1-day training courses at Family Futures have been reduced to a rate of £150+VAT
PERSONALISING THE STORY
Life Story Books & Life Story Work with Looked After Children
A 1 Day Introductory Course
9 September 2010
Presented by Eugene Ellis; Child Psychotherapist &
Rachel Staff; Social Worker
Please click here to download flyer
What makes a Life Story Book meaningful to a child?
Life Story books are now a requirement for every Looked After Child. Regrettably, they are not always created for every child in foster care or for those who have been adopted. How can we work with each child to turn their unique Life Story Book into something of genuine and lasting value for them? This course draws on Family Futures’ highly respected experience of Life Story Work, providing practitioners with the skills and confidence to do this vital work. Participants are encouraged to share methods and tailor the approach to Life Story Work for their individual practice. The course provides-
- A clear structure and process for creating Life Story Books and using ongoing Life Story Work
- Hands-on experience of using Life Story Work techniques, including time lines, letter writing, clay babies, puppets and more
- Opportunity for participants to review specific considerations and constraints affecting how they use Life Story Work with their own clients
Who is the course designed for?
Staff from adoption, post-adoption, fostering and Looked After Children teams
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
WHEN TRAUMA THREATENS THE PLACEMENT : Working with families to help children settle - A 1 Day Workshop
28 September 2010
Presented by Jay Vaughan & Eugene Ellis*
Please click here to download flyer
Children fostered and adopted in the UK inevitably carry the effects of traumas, experienced in their early lives. Such trauma can be all too readily re-stimulated, leading to outbreaks of disruptive and highly challenging behaviour. Writers like Bruce Perry, Allan Shore and Bessel A. van der Kolk have alerted us to the fact that children who have been through the public care system are developmentally traumatised and that we need a greater awareness of the impact this has on the development of the brain and the central nervous system. The fight, flight, freeze trauma response can also be triggered in foster and adopted parents, leaving them incapable of calm thought.
These twin factors combined can quickly lead to placement breakdown, and more disruption. Practitioners working with children prior to or post adoption want to know how to recognise and what to do when trauma is re-stimulated, to best help the child settle, and the placement succeed.
The course provides:
- ASSESSMENT TOOLS for recognising the effects of developmental trauma on brain and body in adopted children and adopted parents
- PRACTICAL GUIDELINES for pre-empting potential trauma triggers and stabilising the situation if trauma threatens to disrupt
*The course will be run by Jay Vaughan, a qualified Drama Therapist, Theraplay practitioner and Somatic Experience practitioner who has pioneered neuro-sequential treatment in the UK for children who are fostered and adopted and Eugene Ellis,
Integrative Arts Psychotherapist and a senior practitioner at Family Futures Consortium.
Who is the course designed for?
Staff from adoption, post-adoption, fostering and Looked After Children teams
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook, peer-training CD & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
ADVANCED THERAPLAY & MIM
8 & 9 October 2010
PLEASE NOTE: Both days are open as separate workshops
Presented by Dafna Lender & Sandra Lindaman
(Both are certified Theraplay Therapists and Trainers)
Please click here to download flyer
CE credits: 12
Day One will focus on adapting Theraplay for children who have been exposed to chronic relational trauma.
We will be:
- Defining chronic relational trauma
- Discussing timing of Theraplay in treatment when using a combination of treatment modalities
- Differentiating types of traumatic reactions/behaviors in therapy and how to differentiate between them and respond to them
- Featuring in-depth case study of an older child with complex trauma treated with Theraplay combined with Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and narrative therapy
Day Two will be a group supervision format wherein participants will make case presentations with videos of their work. Please note that presentation slots are limited and last 60 minutes. Priority will be given to participants who are enrolled in the practicum. Participants will present videotaped segments of their Theraplay work to the group for feedback and supervision.
This training is designed to help participants:
- Develop skills in analysis and use of the MIM for treatment planning to an advanced level
- Apply Theraplay to more challenging settings and populations
- Present Theraplay to relevant audiences
- Describe the latest developments in research and theory that impact the Theraplay model
Who is the course designed for?
Day One is open to anyone, whereas Day Two is only open to those who have previously participated on the Intermediate training.
Cost: £180 + VAT per day (includes refreshments, lunch, handouts & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
Contact Arrangements for Children who are Fostered & Adopted
21 October 2010
Presented by Wendy Daniel & Rachel Staff
Contact has become one of the most contentious issues in family placement. Research evidence as to whether contact is a proactive factor is questionable. High levels of contact for protracted periods while cases are in proceedings, the explicit and implicit messages that come with contact and "termination" of contact are difficult to manage.
Family Futures has pioneered the concept of "facilitated contact" pre and post order as a way of ensuring that contact is both safe and meaningful. Family Futures believes that face-to-face contact should be seen as a therapeutic opportunity rather than a re-enactment of the past. This course will look at ways of making contact safe, meaningful and therapeutic for all parties.
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
Introduction to the Family Futures Assessment Handbook
11 November 2010
Presented by Alan Burnell & Rachel Staff
Please click here to download flyer
Social Workers know only too well that without a clear, evidence-based framework for assessing Looked After Children and their needs, significant details can be missed. If this happens, we run the risk of errors in the decision-making process, with the potential to threaten the stability of a subsequent placement.
This interactive and highly rated workshop will introduce the comprehensive ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK from the Family Futures ‘Assessment Handbook’.
The workshop will cover -
- How to use the Assessment Framework
- How to assess -
i) the child’s degree of trauma and attachment style
ii) whether a sibling group should be placed together or separately
iii) a child’s needs for contact with birth relatives
iv) the sort of parenting the child needs, introducing the innovative Family Futures framework for matching
Participants are encouraged to share their own experience of assessment to explore how the framework can be used in practice.
Who is the course designed for?
Staff from adoption, post-adoption, fostering and Looked After Children teams
Who will present the course?
Alan Burnell; Registered Manager and Rachel Staff; Social Worker, Family Futures
Will there be any handouts? Each participant will receive -
i) a copy of the Handbook
ii) a peer-training CD with keynotes from the workshop, so that they can present the Handbook to colleagues on return to their own workplace
iii) Attendance certificate
iv) Consultation with trainers, on issues that arise on using the Handbook after the workshop, is available by arrangement
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch & all of the above)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
New Developments in Assessing and Teaching Looked After Children and Children who are Adopted
Won't Do or Can't Do?
24 November 2010
Presented by Marion Allen; Educational Specialist
She will be demonstrating the use of her new publications; Resource Packs for helping children in the classroom.
Please click here for flyer
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
TRANSITIONS - Moving Families
20 January 2011
Presented by Eugene Ellis & Sue Hughes
Helping children to move from foster home to permanent placement has been a neglected area of practice. For many children such moves are fraught, hasty and represent the loss of a significant carer. An added complexity occurs when siblings are moved together especially if they are in separate placements.
Family Futures has advocated that in certain situations serial placement of siblings is a more "natural" way to proceed and to help develop new attachment based practices can minimise the risks and how the role of foster-carers can be enhanced.
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
MATCHES - made in heaven?
Assessments of Children & Prospective Adoptive Parents
31 March 2011
Presented by Alan Burnell & Wendy Daniel
Please click here to download flyer
“Very enjoyable course and thorough information pack, will be helpful in my job”
“Brought lots of tools and frameworks together for consideration” – Course participants, 2010
One of the hardest tasks in family placement is matching prospective parents. In family placement reports, there is often a great deal of descriptive and factual information on both the child and the parents, but no framework for matching the two. Without a coherent matching approach, we have to rely on intuition alone, which is rarely sufficient. Family Futures has adapted attachment-based adult and child assessments in the development of a unique framework for matching the strengths and vulnerabilities of the prospective parents, with a profile of the parenting needs of the child. This makes it possible to make more complementary matches, to analyse post-placement parenting difficulties, and to plan post-adoption support programmes that are bespoke and specific to the particular child and its new parents.
The course will cover -
- Conducting attachment-based child / prospective parent assessments
- Using the Family Futures Matching Framework for matching, analysing parenting difficulties, and planning appropriate interventions for post-placement support
Who is the course designed for?
Staff from adoption, post-adoption, allied professionals involved in family placement
Who will present the course?
Alan Burnell, Registered Manager, and Wendy Daniel, Social Worker, Family Futures
Will there be any handouts?
Each participant will receive -
i) a copy of the Course Handbook
ii) a peer-training CD with keynotes from the workshop, so that they can present material to colleagues on return to their own workplace
iii) Attendance certificate iv) Consultation with trainers, on issues that arise on using the Handbook after the workshop, is available by arrangement
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch & all of the above)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
Developmental Re-Parenting:
A 1 Day Introductory Course*
13 April 2011
Presented by Wendy Daniel & Sally Short
There is a growing recognition that children who are in foster care or adopted, who have experienced repeated traumas in infancy and have attachment difficulties require therapeutic parenting. The day course aims to:
- Outline a theoretical framework for Developmental Re-Parenting.
- Provide examples of how this can be achieved at critical points in the day.
- Look at the benefits of parenting in this positive way.
The course will be presented from both a social work and a parent’s perspective. It will also look at how challenging behaviour can be understood in terms of brain and central nervous system functioning. The course will stress the importance of addressing difficult behaviour on a cognitive, affective, and a sensory motor level. The course will be presented by Wendy Daniel, Social Worker and trainee Adult Therapist and Sally Short, a Foster Carer who has employed Developmental Re-Parenting with her child.
* 50% bursary available to adoptive parents upon application (limited number of places available)
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
SIBLING PLACEMENTS
4 May 2011
Presented by Wendy Daniel & Sue Hughes
Placing sibling groups is a complex process, which often raises strong feelings when the separation of siblings is considered. It is the convention that sibling groups should be placed together and research suggests that this is a protective factor. As a result of our work with children who have experienced early trauma and experience attachment difficulties, we have come to question these assumptions. Our work has highlighted the need for very detailed assessments of sibling attachments. The day will explore the assertion that, for some children, separating sibling groups is a low-risk option and that some sibling attachments hinder rather than help the re-parenting of traumatised children.
Cost: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handbook & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
SENSORY INTEGRATION, ATTACHMENT & TRAUMA
Family Futures is pleased to be able to host this course run by Eadaoin Bhreathnach who has innovatively integrated attachment theory and sensory integration, theory and practice. This approach fits within the framework of developmental trauma as an important therapeutic intervention.
An Introduction to Sensory Attachment Interventions
23-24 June 2011
This 2-day course is for professionals who are involved in therapeutic, educational, and daily care of children at risk, accommodated or adopted.
Cost: £200 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, course handouts & attendance certificate)
For further information please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk
020 7354 4161
APPLICATION FORM
Dan
Hughes Courses
Dr. Dan Hughes is a psychologist whose developmental attachment therapy has
been much acclaimed by parents and professionals, both in this country and
the USA.
For further information, please click here
Theraplay®
Family Futures is pleased to be able to host the Theraplay® introductory
certificate course. Family Futures is committed to running the complete Theraplay
training course to enable UK participants to qualify in Theraplay®. We
therefore also host the intermediate course and supervision days.
For further information, please click here
Focus on Adoption Courses for Local Authorities to buy in;
Matching, Contact, Siblings, Transitions, Parenting & Panel Training
Designed as training for Social Workers & Therapists on key issues in contemporary adoption practice. These courses are designed for Local Authorities to buy in for groups of staff to be trained in the above key issues. Participants for each Focus on Adoption Course will be supplied with a comprehensive
handbook, included in which will be rationales, frameworks, research and references. Please contact us regarding cost and dates.
For further information, please click here
Parent Mentoring Courses
Family Futures has devised a 5-day course for parents wishing to be parent
mentors and for social workers who are training and supporting parent mentors.
For further information, please click here
For further information on any of the above courses, please contact Joanne Collett; Training Services Co-ordinator joanne@familyfutures.co.uk / 020 7354 4161
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