Supporting Unaccompanied Minors in Day to Day Trauma-Informed Practice

The training will explore reasoning and practice for trauma-informed psychosocial group support of UASC. The focus will be on teaching non-psychotherapeutically trained, but informed key workers, practical tools as well as fundamental principles for working with UASC. The goal will be to enable workers to creatively adapt their support to the context, cultural and psychosocial needs of the relevant group or setting, while remaining within the remit of safe practice.

Areas covered will include engagement, psychoeducation, relationship building, distress management, problem solving, managing nightmares, and exploring narratives, what is safe or not safe in engaging in trauma informed practice.

Outcomes:

• To understand the background and challenges faced by UAS children and young people
• To gain an awareness of the multiple layers of trauma that may be experienced by UAS children and young people
• To share practical strategies and tools that can be used with children and young people with high level trauma
• To become an informed practitioner (where not psychotherapeutically trained)

Within each 2-day programme there are four discrete sessions

Session 1

Understanding trauma/Promoting engagement and Psychoeducation

Participants understand trauma, how it may present, and what helps or hinders recovery

Participants are able to use simple tools for psychoeducation

Participants develop ideas of how to engage UASC to the program

Session 2

Dealing with distress/ Dealing with worries and day-to-day hassles

Participants understand anxiety and the impact of distress on cognition, learning and social skills

Participants have tools to psycho educate about anxiety and distress, and how to explore the impact of anxiety and distress in the session, including body map and labelling emotions

Participants develop ideas of reducing distress and how to explore this with participants in an age and culturally sensitive manner, including simple relaxation techniques.

Participants have tools to support UASC dealing with day-to day hassles.

Session 3

Dealing with traumatic memory intrusions and nightmares/Sharing and witnessing basic narratives

Participants understand and are able to use simple tools for dealing with intrusive memories and nightmares

Participants learn to use a simple tool for supporting UASC to tell their story

Session 4

Thinking about the future and support network/ Understanding and getting support in the case of deportation

Participants understand principles of addressing the topic of ‘deportation’ with UASC

Participants are able to explore ending and develop a simple support network map for going into the future.

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NB: Please book using the first date, March 6th. This will secure you a place on both days.

Please note

This training session from Norfolk Virtual School is for Norfolk based professionals working to support our children and young people. Any bookings made by colleagues outside Norfolk where not supporting our cohorts will be contacted and cancelled where appropriate.

Cancellation Policy

This Professional Development is currently fully subsidised by the Virtual School; there are no charges to delegates. If you need to cancel, we kindly ask that you contact us 5 working days before the course start date. This allows us to offer your space to other potential delegates.

The Virtual School reserves the right to cancel or postpone a training course if there are fewer than 6 delegates for an online event or fewer than 10 for an in-person event. If we must cancel, we will notify delegates 5 working days for virtual and 10 working days for in person courses, before the scheduled start date. A member of the Virtual School team will contact delegates who have signed up to discuss alternative dates or CPD options

This training session from Norfolk Virtual School is for Norfolk based professionals working to support our children and young people. Any bookings made by colleagues outside Norfolk where not supporting our cohorts will be contacted and cancelled where appropriate.

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