Training
Experienced in delivering training to YOT practitioners, children’s centre staff, social workers and tertiary students.
Training and Workshops have been delivered on:
- Assessments
- Report Writing
- Integrated Planning
- Working with children and young people
- Supporting parents
- Foster care induction
- Child & Adolescent Development
- Attachment
- Identifying pathways to and steps down from risk taking behaviour
tight rope
Workshops and full-day training events are available for teams wanting to implement the tightrope
The full-day event will cover
- Research and theories that underpin the tightrope (adolescent development, desistance and resilience)
- Considering the impact of trauma on brain development and behaviour
- Understanding the fit with assessment and planning processes and models of direct work
- Inspecting the 8 elements of the tightrope
- Practice using the mapping form with a casestudy
The workshop will cover
- An introduction to the tightrope
- The fit with various approaches of direct work with adolescents
- A brief overview of each element of the tightrope
The tightrope toolkit is available for purchase, see more detail in the resources page
“Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time.” Deborah Chaskin
Upcoming Workshops
Engaging Young People in Risk Assessment
Introducing the tightrope to positively engage young people in recognising and managing risk (for example, in offending, substance misuse and self harm).
Adolescent Development
Interactive sessions to consider adolescent brain development and the impact of trauma on behaviour. Can dovetail with the Engaging workshop to make a full-day training session.