A FREE WORKSHOP FOR CORAMBAAF FULL MEMBER AGENCIES ONLY (LOCAL AUTHORITIES, REGIONAL ADOPTION AGENCIES, VOLUNTARY ADOPTION AGENCIES AND INDEPENDENT FOSTERING PROVIDERS) IN ENGLAND, WALES, NORTHERN IRELAND AND IRELAND - ONE ALLOCATED PLACE PER AGENCY (MAXIMUM 20 AVAILABLE PLACES), ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS. BOOKING ESSENTIAL. LIGHT REFRESHMENTS (TEA, COFFEE, BISCUITS) WILL BE PROVIDED.
ALL ATTENDEES MUST BE IN CURRENT MEMBERSHIP OF CORAMBAAF ON THE DATE OF THE WORKSHOP.
THEME
The Secure Base Model devised by Gillian Schofield and Mary Beek (UEA) focuses on the interactions that occur between caregivers and children, through the provision of a positive framework for therapeutic caregiving, which helps infants, children and young people to move towards greater security and builds resilience.
With children firmly in focus, this workshop provides an introduction to the Secure Base Model framework and specific related tools which enable practitioners to assess prospective foster carers’ and adopters’ parenting capacities and on-going support needs.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Fostering social workers, fostering team/registered managers and fostering panel members, adoption social workers, adoption team managers, special guardianship assessors, children’s social workers and service managers, children’s guardians, residential workers, care workers.
20 places available.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- To provides a framework for considering the skills and capacities associated with offering therapeutic care as part of family life in foster care and adoption
- To develop critical thinking and reflective practice in the completion of fostering, adoption and assessments relating to parenting capacity and support provision
- To consider the application of Secure Base resources and tools to specific practice areas
FACILITATORS
Jacqui Lawrence*
* Facilitator subject to change
TIME
Registration 9.30am – 9.55am*
Start 10.00am*
Close 4.00pm*
*Times subject to change
CONTACT
Telephone 020 7520 7523
Email [email protected]
RELATED READING
This practical guide is designed to support foster carers and adopters in offering the best possible sensitive care for troubled children who have often experienced trauma and loss, using the Secure Base Model. It provides a valuable framework and strength-based approach for making sense of fostered and adopted children’s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential.
Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research.
