Learning to let go - Edinburgh

26th September 2024 - Training Room, Norton Park Conference Centre, 57 Albion Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5QY

9.30am - 4.00pm

Essential learning for professionals and family members who support young people with additional support needs.

Young people with additional needs and their parents share their powerful experiences and personal learning of what helps and hinders the process of ‘letting go.’

Using our new transitions framework you will gain practical skills and resources to enable young people and families to prepare for and succeed in lifes big changes, including:

-Leaving school or college

- Joining social activities

- Building relationships

- Getting a job

- Moving home.

Delivered alongside staff from the Scottish Transitions Forum, Scotland's experts on improving support for young people with additional needs.

Who is this for?

Parents and carers of young people aged 14+ with additional support needs, and all the professionals who support them.

Cost:

• £150 per professional
• £20 per Parent (refreshments included, delegates are asked to bring their own lunch)

Our Trainers

Alexander Warren is an actor, a teacher and a Hearts fan (please don’t hold that against him)! He runs his own business, AJP Dreams, to inspire young people to go for their dreams and to encourage families and professionals to listen and help - in particular, to imagine bigger and not simply make do with what appears realistic.

David Warren is a retired computer scientist. His son Alexander inspires people across Scotland by sharing his life story and experiences of living with a learning disability. David occasionally helps him write his presentations and gives a "parent's view". He is immensely proud of how his son has overcome his disadvantages in life, and his commitment to helping others.

Scott Richardson-Read co-facilitates the Scottish Transitions Forum, primarily working with a group of young people called the Divergent Influencers to ensure disabled and autistic voices are heard when it comes to transition. He works alongside professionals, software developers, academics, policy makers, local authorities, Scottish Government and third sector organisations to make sure growing up for young disabled, autistic, and other young people with additional support needs is the best it can be.

What you will learn

• Parents' and young peoples experiences of letting go, and things that help or get in the way.
• A unique transitions framework to help families and young people prepare for and succeed in biglife changes.
• A deeper sense of how to create an environment that supports young people and families to take steps to independence.
• Personalised practical next steps for the young people you support.

Host or Publisher ARC Scotland