Helping professionals understand the adoption experience

If you work with parents and carers who are looking after care experienced children, then this session is for you! This training has been designed to help you understand early trauma and how it might impact a child in later life. People who have attended these sessions have come from a variety of different sectors including: teaching, social worker, fostering agencies, charities and faith organisations. This session is for anyone who works with families that have been affected by adoption and will help increase your competency around adoption.

This course is for anyone who works with parents and carers who look after care experienced children

Helping community leaders understand the adoption experience

If you are a leader of any community group who connects with parents and carers of care experienced children and young people, then this session is for you. This training session has been designed to help you understand early trauma and how it might impact a child in later life. People who have attended these sessions have come from a variety of different organisations including: charities, faith organisations, Scouts and Guides, sports clubs and activity groups. This session will help you to understand the environment you are in may impact the children in your care and how you can best promote an inclusive and supportive environment for care experienced children and their parent(s). 

This course is for any community leader who connects with parents and carers who look after care experienced children

Compassion Fatigue and Secondary Trauma

Secondary trauma, also known as ‘compassion fatigue’, can lead to an erosion in your ability to feel empathy. This course will help you recover. People who work with or care for people with trauma – such as parents, nurses, social workers and teachers – can begin to experience a lack of empathy for others in both their professional and private lives. This is often seen as ‘burnout’, when in fact the person may be experiencing ‘compassion fatigue’ or ‘secondary trauma’ because of working in such conditions over a long time period (usually years). Even the most experienced professionals and parents can be at risk, and this course will help you place your needs at the core of your work and family life. It will help participants recognise the signs of secondary trauma and to recognise the impact it can have upon their own emotional wellbeing and mental health.

This course is suitable for all adopters, foster parents, special guardians and everyone working in this area.