Adoption UK has a highly skilled team of trainers with vast amounts of personal and professional experience and knowledge. All our trainers are adoptive or foster parents, giving them a unique insight when delivering training and allowing them to share personally in the whole experience of adoption.
Places on Adoption UK’s training workshops can be purchased:
· individually by parents and carers
· by adoption or fostering agencies for their parents and carers
· individually by practitioners
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Parents and carers can now book individual places on the workshops below at a range of venues:
Parental Substance Misuse: one-day workshop on the physical and behavioural effects on children born to parents misusing alcohol, tobacco and drugs, and possible long term implications. Provides knowledge and information to develop strategies in the home, school and community.
Contact and the Adopted Child: one-day workshop exploring the purpose and meaning of contact for those involved, looking at different types of contact and how it can help a child develop a healthy sense of identity.
School and Education Issues: one-day workshop covering issues that may arise in the classroom for a child due to the effects of separation, loss, trauma and attachment. Explores strategies and practical suggestions for supporting the child in school.
Parenting Adopted Teenagers: one-day workshop examining issues that affect adoptive parents, foster carers and children during the teenage years, highlighting the warning signs of serious emotional or behavioural difficulties. The issue of control in the older child is discussed, alongside ways parents can maximise their influence over behaviour without alienating their child.
Telling About Adoption: one-day workshop exploring the importance of life story work and telling about adoption. Covers practicalities, resources and potential difficulties involved in undertaking life story work.
Understanding the Needs of the Child at Placement: two-day workshop, ideal for adopters and foster carers who have been approved and are waiting for placement. It explores the issues that affect parents and children, aiming to help new parents make positive connections with their child in the early days of placement, based on a knowledge of attachment and the effects of early trauma.
To book a place or find out more about Adoption UK’s training in England or Scotland, contact the Training Team.
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Find out about training in Northern Ireland.
