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Making space for young peoples' voice and agency is at the heart of good therapeutic practice, and one of the 10 Essential Elements of Therapeutic Care. As Meaghan Vosz writes in this weeks' blog, young peoples' participation in residential care is a right, not a privilege.
Yet, too often, young peoples' experiences of participation in residential care are negative or non-existent. Our latest Research Briefing speaks directly to this issue and highlights the importance of ensuring young people have opportunities to access relevant information about their lives, develop their capacity to express themselves and to impact decision-making processes.
We had a great turn-out at the Therapeutic of Specialist Community of Practice last week, with 33 TS's joining the online space. A stand out for me was hearing how COVID-19 has presented unexpected opportunities for increasing family engagement and young peoples' participation in ITC.
Finally, this month we are excited to launch and see the new registrations flowing in for our Foundational Training in Intensive Therapeutic Care. Please reach out if you have any questions or feedback on the training. You will also see below that I have included some other professional development resources on childhood trauma that you and staff may find useful.
Kelly Royds, Senior Advisor
Foundational Training in Intensive Therapeutic Care
Ongoing - 12 week series of 12 Online Training Modules
The Foundational Training in Intensive Therapeutic Care is a training resource for all new workers in Intensive Therapeutic Care (ITC) in NSW. It is designed to complement agencies existing training and to develop a shared understanding of the principles of supporting young people across the ITC system.
10 ways to enable young people’s participation in therapeutic residential care
Meaghan Vosz & Associate Professor Lynne McPherson, Director of Research, CETC
Many young people in residential care have negative experiences of participation. In this blog, doctoral researcher Meaghan Vosz and Associate Professor Lynne McPherson offer ITC practitioners some ideas about how to involve young people in decisions that affect their lives.
Young peoples’ participation is a right, not a privilege
Meaghan Vosz, Researcher
In a recent survey of 143 children and young people in residential care in NSW, only 48% said they usually get a chance to have a say and usually feel listened to; 25% said they don’t usually get to have a say and don’t usually feel listened to (NSW Department of Communities and Justice, 2019). In this blog, Meaghan Vosz explores some of the common barriers and opportunities for meaningful youth participation in residential care.
Therapeutic residential workers? Who are we?
Dr Glenys Bristow, Senior Advisor, CETC
What are the characteristics of therapeutic residential workers? In this blog, Dr Bristow introduces her research into the artistry of therapeutic residential workers and shares four different types of knowledge exceptional workers bring to the field of Therapeutic Residential Care.
Enabling Young People’s Participation in Residential Care Decision Making
This research brief addresses the following issues in young people’s participation: Understanding participation, Participation for groups of young people in residential care, Why is participation important?, Benefits of participation, Models of participation, Enabling practice: implications for practitioners and organisations, Young people’s participation in service, program and policy design.
Expert Speaker Webinars about Trauma, Attachment and Healing
We have organised a series of webinars with some of the world’s leading experts in the neurobiology of trauma, attachment and healing. The one on one online interviews between Dr Joe Tucci – our CEO – and these wonderful speakers starts in May. You will hear about their most up to date thinking and ideas.
We know so many of you want to access professional development right now. So we have made it super affordable. All the webinars are only $25 each.
SEMINAR 1. PROFESSOR STEVE PORGES
11am – 12pm (AEST) 12 May 2020
SEMINAR 2. DAN HUGHES AND JON BAYLIN
11am – 12pm (AEST) 13 May 2020
There are a few surprise speakers being organized as we speak.
You can register to watch as it happens or view the webinar as a recording after it is over and at a time that is suitable for you.
The 10800NAT Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma consists of five units of competency moving participants through foundational theory, building a practice guide to support their work, trauma focused assessment and intervention models and finally an exploration of all of the organisational issues that support the most effective relationship based practice with traumatised children, young people and families. (RTO No. 22094)
Virtual Classroom: Multiple dates
Working with traumatised children and young people can impact us all but our understanding of the neurobiology of trauma can inform our approach to looking after ourselves as much as others. Self-care is critical to ensuring our own wellbeing as well as our capacity to support the children, young people and families with whom we work.
This workshop has been designed to explore how interactions across the screen of digital platforms can help shape powerful meanings and opportunities for children and young people and their network of important adults to share experiences of past hurt, imagination, play and healing.
Want to know more?
If you would like to find out more about the Centre or discuss how the Centre could support your work contact Kelly Royds on 0407 516 858 or on kroyds@childhood.org.au
If you would like to discuss how the Centre can build your staff capacity through training and accredited courses contact Marina Dickson on 1300 381 581 or on mdickson@childhood.org.au
We want to hear from you!
We would love to hear any feedback how we are going and ideas on how we can better work together.
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