Cardiff University would like to talk to education, social care and mental health practitioners, about their experiences and views on mental health and wellbeing provision in secondary schools and colleges in Wales… Read More
Be-Longing, parents, and mental health – online foster care event
This is an event for care experienced and those that work in foster care. The event will start with a screening of the award-winning short film, Be-Longing, followed by a Q&A session where special guests Stanley J. Browne and Niki Igbaroola, who will be sharing their own experiences of the care system, and discussing the feeling of being born to the wrong family when moving around while in foster care… Read More
Unconscious Bias – Understanding Diversity and Discrimination
This training will be a highly interactive exploration of equality, diversity and inclusion. It will encourage you to investigate different manifestations of unconscious bias in a safe and supportive format. This is an EDI session like no other and promises to be fun as well as thought provoking… Read More
Objects and their stories
This course will demonstrate how objects can be used as an accessible tool to evoke, release and relieve emotions, how objects can become a safe home for these feelings, and how a focus on objects can free the imagination and promote creative practices and relationships… Read More
Transgender applicants: assessment and analysis
This course is aimed at social care professionals who are engaged in the assessment of prospective adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers and who wish to increase their awareness and confidence in considering gender issues in assessment, analysis and decision making… Read More
Assessing Adult Relationships
The purpose of this open course is to give participants an opportunity to consider what good practice in assessing adult relationships is, exploring their own values and assumptions and to consider the importance of attachment styles, motivation, sex and sexuality, and loss and infertility… Read More
Crisis after Crisis – the impact on babies, young children and families
This Children in Wales’ webinar focuses on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis on babies, their families and the services that support them… Read More
Pride and prejudice: supporting LGBTQ+ young people
The training will explore LGBT issues and young people. The process of coming out, issues for young people such as bullying, gender identity and sexuality. Read More
Anxiety in young people: Understanding theory and practical solutions
This one day training will increase awareness and understanding of anxiety and help to gain practical solutions to support young people. Participants will become familiar with the Polyvagal Theory and the work of Dr Stephen Podges and trauma and the work of Dr Bessel van der Volk and how trauma affects PTSD and OCD… Read More
Understanding Autism and how it can impact on the child and family/carers
The aim of the course is to raise awareness and develop an increased understanding of autism in order to continually improve the quality of support to children on the spectrum and their families/carers… Read More
