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    This three day training explores the practice issues at the heart of permanency planning, and can be taken in its entirety or workshop by workshop. The workshops are for social workers, as an in-service update; social workers new to adoption work, as an invaluable socialisation into an adoption team; CAMHS team members working within adoption; psychologists and other professionals working with adopted children and families. This course is also of relevance to therapists and counsellors, and those intending to apply to register as Adoption support Agencies.
     
    12th November (AM)

    Assessing for the impact of infertility and loss in prospective adopters
    How to tackle this very difficult area of assessment

     
    12th November (PM)

    Adult attachment styles Assessing adult attachment styles

     
    18th November (AM)

    Trauma and attachment
    Adoption support services: therapeutic work with children and adoptive parents in the context of attachment theory

     
    18th November (PM)

    NEW! Pre-placement training for adopters
    Starts with the question: 'How well do you know this child?' How can you work with adopters to prepare them for permanency?

     
    25th November (AM)

    NEW! Preventing adoption disruptions What works?

     
    25th November (PM)

    NEW! Separating siblings Together or apart?

     
    Date: Thursday 12th, Wednesday 18th and Wednesday 25th
    November 2009
    Time: 10.00am – 1.00pm; 1.30pm – 4.30pm
    Venue: London Irish Centre
    50 - 52 Camden Square
    London NW1 9XB
    Facilitator Hedi Argent, Rose Dagoo, Franca Brenninkmeyer,
    Maggie Rogers
    Fees
    £368 + £55.20 (vat) = £423.20 for all six sessions
    £70 + £10.50 (vat) = £80.50 per session

    INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS CAN BE BOOKED SINGLY

    Registration:
    Please complete a booking form and return it ASAP to:
    Training,Post-Adoption Centre, 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ,
    Tel: (020) 7284 0555 Fax:  020 7482 2367

    email: training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk

    Click here for the Training Leaflet 2009-2010


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    FREE TRAINING
    Teaching adoptive parents and foster carers how to promote positive racial, ethnic and cultural identity in their black, mixed race or minority ethnic children can be challenging. PAC has developed a three day workshop designed to provide professionals with these skills, using as its basis PAC's innovative resource pack of the same name as the training. For the cost of the resource pack (£98.99) you can attend this three day workshop FREE
     
    Attend this training, then go back and train your team and your parents!
     
    Book early to avoid disappointment
    - places are strictly limited to 20
    Date: Tuesday 24th, Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th November 2009
    Time: 10.00am - 4.00pm
    Venue: Action for Children Stephenson Hall
    85 Highbury Park Road
    London N5 1UD
    Facilitator Beryl Coley, Barrymore James and Maggie Rogers

    Fee for resource pack £98.99

    Registration:
    Please complete a booking form and return it ASAP to:
    Training,Post-Adoption Centre, 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ,
    Tel: (020) 7284 0555 Fax:  020 7482 2367

    email: training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk

    Click here for the Training Leaflet 2009-2010


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    This workshop will help professionals think about the not commonly considered phenomenon of the post-placement blues. It will explore case material and provide pre-placement training suggestions and a space for discussing social workers’ own case experience of adopters and the blues.
    Date: Friday 29th January 2010
    Time: 9.30am - 4.00pm
    Venue: London Irish Centre
    50 - 52 Camden Square
    London NW1 9XB
    Facilitator Maggie Rogers & Pavlina Georgiades
    Fees
    PAC Subscribing Local Authorities £127 + £22.23 (vat) = £149.23
    PAC Non-Subscribing Local Authorities £136 + £23.80 (vat) = £159.80

    Registration:
    Please complete a booking form and return it ASAP to:
    Training,Post-Adoption Centre, 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ,
    Tel: (020) 7284 0555 Fax:  020 7482 2367

    email: training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk

    Click here for the Training Leaflet 2009-2010


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    A seminar for adoptive parents and foster carers, counsellors, therapists, social workers, medical professionals and teachers.

    In this seminar, Louise Bomber will explore some of the issues that children can face in primary and secondary schools when they have experienced significant, relational traumas and losses in their early years. Children can sometimes have a distorted view of themselves, others and the school context they find themselves in. They are at risk of being misunderstood and at worst excluded by the very places that could offer them opportunities for second chance learning.

    Louise will outline the characteristics of an Attachment Friendly School and the importance of facilitating significant relationships at school in order to develop and practice different relational capacities. She will describe many of the strategies that have been found to be effective in supporting these children to settle to learn and make the most of the opportunities at school. The day will be thought provoking and may challenge our current ways of 'doing school'.

    About the facilitator:
    Louise Michelle Bomber is qualified as both a teacher and a therapist. She has worked with individual pupils, classes and whole school settings, teachers and support staff across both the primary and secondary phases. She has provided consultations and training for education, health and social services. She currently works as an Adoption Support Teacher for the Adoption & Permanency Team in Brighton & Hove and works with and supports children & young people in care in a private capacity.

    Date: Friday 5th February 2010
    Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm
    Venue: Action for Children Stephenson Hall,
    85 Highbury Park,
    London N5 1UD
    Facilitator Louise Michelle Bomber
    Fees
    PAC Subscribing Local Authorities £127 + £19.05 (vat) = £146.05
    PAC Non-Subscribing Local Authorities £136 + £20.40 (vat) = £156.40

    Registration:
    Please complete a booking form and return it ASAP to:
    Training,Post-Adoption Centre, 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ,
    Tel: (020) 7284 0555 Fax:  020 7482 2367

    email: training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk

    Click here for the Training Leaflet 2009-2010


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    Theraplay® is short term play therapy for children and their caregivers with the goals of enhancing adult-child relationships and resolving behavioural problems such as excessive tantrums, anger, hitting, biting, clinginess, fearfulness, controlling behaviours, self-harming behaviour and attachment disturbances. The MIM (Marschak Interaction Method) is an observationally based assessment method used to evaluate parent-child relationships.
     
    Who should attend
    This five day training workshop is for qualified professionals looking for training in child/family counselling and attachment therapy, including: psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counsellors, family therapists, play therapists, psychiatric nurses, school psychologists, teachers, occupational therapists and early childhood & developmental specialists.
    Date: Monday 1st - 5th March 2010
    Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm
    Venue: Action for Children, Stephenson Hall,
    85 Highbury Park
    London N5 1UD
    Facilitator Lorie Walton, Mary Ring
    and one Trainer Assistant of The Theraplay® Institute
    Fees
    £1,005 + £175.88 vat = £1,180.88 per person (inclusive of lunch)
    Non-refundable deposit of £375 + £65.63 vat = £440.63 payable upon booking
    Balance of £630 + £110.25 vat = £740.25 payable by 31st January 2010

    Registration:
    Please complete the Theraplay® registration form and return it ASAP to:
    Training,Post-Adoption Centre, 5 Torriano Mews, Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RZ,
    Tel: (020) 7284 0555 Fax:  020 7482 2367

    email: training@postadoptioncentre.org.uk

    Click here for the course leaflet


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