Support for educators
School can often feel an overwhelming experience for many children and young people.
Information for educators around trauma and attachment-informed approaches in schools.
As educators, you play a vital role in shaping the lives of children and young people, especially those who may have experienced early childhood trauma. By creating safe, supportive, and nurturing environments, you can help students learn to overcome challenges, build resilience and progress towards reaching their potential.
As a trauma-informed service, we are passionate about supporting adults in developing their understanding and awareness of the impact of childhood trauma, as we believe that many behaviours seen within the classroom are so often misunderstood.
If you would like to find out how we can help you support a child at school, fill in and return our referral form.
The Virtual School offers a support system for educators supporting children and young people within the care system. They have a responsibility to monitor, support and provide or resource interventions.
Derby City
Derby City's Virtual School provides Designated Teacher Network Meetings once a term, in addition to online training. They run AC Education Online Training programmes, with a range of courses focused around trauma awareness. They also run an 8-module Attachment and Trauma eLearning course, alongside a 7-day Trauma and Attachment accredited course.
Derbyshire's Virtual School offer training for schools through their 'Attachment and Relationship Aware' programme, which provides information regarding attachment, trauma and ways of supporting a whole school approach.
Beacon House
Find a range of helpful, downloadable resources, providing information about Developmental Trauma and various ways of supporting and responding to children and young people.
Visit Beacon House
Group Theraplay®: Sunshine Circles
Theraplay is an approach that helps to enhance attachment, self-esteem, trust in others and joyful engagement. It is based upon the playful, nurturing interactions between parent and child, as a means to create stronger relational bonds, that are often impacted by developmental trauma.
Theraplay UK offer training in group Theraplay, which is aimed at using Therplay in classrooms, residential settings or day care settings.
Trauma Informed Schools UK (TISUK)
Trauma Informed Schools UK provide various training and CPD opportunities, including certificate and diploma qualifications in trauma and mental health for school staff. The training is aimed at senior leaders, mental health leads and whole school training. You can further access live or pre-recorded webinars and book onto upcoming conferences.
Adoption UK
Whilst focused upon offering support around adoption, Adoption UK have collated a range of resources to support educators with difficulties related to trauma, attachment and supporting learning within the classroom.
Anna Freud - Mentally Healthy Schools
The Anna Freud website supports mentally healthy schools, sharing useful quality-assured mental health, information and advice for schools.
Downloads
We have selected some helpful resources developed by the Children, Young People, and Family Health Services (NHS Wales), that are downloadable below.
