Online workshops and webinars
Our online workshops and webinars equip you to support children and young people through therapeutic and trauma-informed approaches.
In addition to our in-person training courses, we will be offering a variety of online workshops and webinars designed to enhance your skills in supporting children and young people, covering topics from understanding the adolescent brain to therapeutic parenting and self-care.
Lunchtime Webinar
Join our webinars with guest speaker, Clinical and Forensic Psychologist Dr Ian Burke to learn about harmful and problematic sexual behaviour in children and young adults.
Dr Burke specialises in the treatment and assessment of harmful and problematic sexual behaviour in children and young people. He is the clinical lead of the Pathway Programme Service. In addition to this role he also works in private practice and sits as a specialist psychologist member of the Parole Board for England and Wales.
Each one hour webinar will have a different focus, and you are welcome to join them all.
10 April 2025 @ 12:30 - Focus on adolescents
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15 May 2025 @ 12:30 - Focus on pornography
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12 June 2025 @ 12:30 - Focus on siblings sexual behaviour
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This series of webinars is open to all foster carers and professionals.
To find out more, please email us
Feedback from previous webinars
"Really useful to hear the breakdown of different age groups, to help design the correct interventions." - Social Worker
"Clear and concise information. Very easy to follow." - Early Help Worker
"A good pace and lots covered in an hour!" - Headteacher
"I feel more confident now in how to approach children and families." - DSL
- Understanding the Adolescent Brain
- Holding a Therapeutic Lens over Placement Matching
- Building Safety and Security through Play
- Building confidence in parenting with PACE
- Therapeutically caring for babies
- DDP with unaccompanied minors, young asylum seekers and refugees
- Understanding the relationship between physical symptoms and traumatic experiences – introducing the bottom-up approach
- Taking nourishing moments to look after yourself and others
- Understanding the relationship between physical symptoms and traumatic experiences – introducing the bottom-up approach
- Responding to SDQ scores for children in care
- Achieving best match – writing placement requests that describe how a child’s needs can be met
- Therapeutic parenting teams – re-framing the identity of children’s networks
- Supporting young people with emotional literacy and emotional regulation
- How ‘interdependence’ promotes ‘independence’ – importance of relationships when preparing for independence
- Pornography Webinar
- HSB Webinar
- Deeper dive into empathy (E of PACE)
- ‘It wasn’t me, honest!’ - Supporting Foster Carers when YP say things that aren’t true.
