Multi-agency early help training and events

Domestic Abuse: Coercive control and trauma informed practice

Increase your understanding around what coercive control is, the tactics that may be used by an abuser and how to adopt a trauma informed approach. Half-day training with a cost of £73.50 per delegate.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Domestic Abuse: empower and protect – building confidence in domestic abuse support

Increase your confidence in assessing and understanding the risk to victims of domestic abuse who you are working with and in helping to get the correct support in place.  Half-day training with a cost of £73.50 per delegate. Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Domestic Abuse: the impact on children and young people

Increase your knowledge around the impact of domestic abuse on children and young people living within the household and outline support available for families.  Half-day training with a cost of £73.50 per delegate. Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Introduction to Early Help and Thresholds

Two-hour pre-funded training which gives an overview of the Early Help system in Shropshire.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Exploitation Pathway

Enhance knowledge and practice for those working with children at risk of exploitation.   Half-day training with a cost of £73.50 per delegate. Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

LEGO® Think Bricks

Provide an understanding of a therapeutic coaching approach, designed to support children’s emotional well-being using the LEGO® Think Bricks resource  ......... brick by brick!  £265 per delegate for this 5-hour training which includes a LEGO® Think Bricks resource kit and activities resource. Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Parental Conflict Module 1 -  introduction to reducing parental conflict

This 90-minute, pre-funded module is designed for those with no previous knowledge or training in Reducing Parental Conflict.  We look at the official definition of Parental Conflict, how it differs from Domestic Abuse and how it impacts child development and family wellbeing.  Touching on some of the research findings that prompted the founding of the national programme to Reduce Parental Conflict, delegates will form an understanding of why it is essential to tackle relationship dysfunction and how easy it is to make a small difference to family life.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Parental Conflict Module 2 – using tools to support healthy parental relationships

This 2-hour, pre-funded module follows on from Parental Conflict Module 1.  This is a practical, skills-based workshop that introduces the RPC Intervention tool along with resources specifically designed to improve communication between parents.  Delegates will learn how to offer a structured intervention to parents in conflicted relationships.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Parental Conflict Module 3 – building confidence in delivering an intervention

This 2-hour, pre-funded workshop aims to help build confidence in working with parental relationships and covers talking to groups about the importance of healthy relationships, using OnePlusOne and Getting On Better cards as part of an intervention, and how to measure the impact of an intervention.  Delegates will also have the opportunity to discuss relationships they are working with.

Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Parental Conflict Module 4 - complex co-parenting part A

This 2-hour, pre-funded module delves into highly conflicted relationships between separated parents.  We look at why relationships stay conflictual after separation, the impact on co-parenting, and ways to avoid Parental Alienation and Family Court.  We explore the VSA as an empathy-led tool to help parents unpick their feelings about each other and bring them both onto the child’s side. Suitable for anyone working with families.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title.

Parental Conflict Module 5 - complex co-parenting part B

As a follow on to module 4, this pre-funded, practical, skills-based, 90-minute, workshop builds on using Relational Capability, Calibrated Questions, and negotiating skills, to encourage parents to agree a parenting plan with their co-parent.  Further information and booking details in the link on the training title

Parental Conflict – helping children to understand parental conflict

This 2-hour, pre-funded, workshop is for anyone who work directly with children and young people of primary and secondary school age.  The workshop introduces a number of activities and tools that can be used to help young people make sense of the complex adult relationships around them.  The aim is to help children talk more openly, manage their feelings, and realise they’re not alone.  A skills-based approach using easy to access games and resources for primary and secondary aged children.

Substance Misuse and Young People

This 3-hour workshop provides an understanding of young people using substances, exploring addiction, exploitation, and how artificial intelligence (AI) may influence future exploitation. Cost is £50 for an online session or £57 for a face to face session.