Training Services
Adoptive Parents and Special Guardianship Carers.
Foundations for Attachment - A 6 session learning and support group programme designed by Kim Golding . The course recognises the challenges in parenting children who have relationship difficulties, and provides guidance on how to: nurture attachment relationships, build emotional connections with them, and support behaviour through ‘connection with correction’.
Nurturing Attachments - A 12 / 14 session learning and support group-work programme for Adoptive parents developed by Kim Golding. This course incorporates ‘The House Model of Parenting’ to help parents manage behaviour through therapeutic re-parenting; helping their children move from mistrust to trust, enhancing their children’s emotional growth, security in relationships and recovery from grief, loss and trauma.
Foster carers, Fostering agencies and Local Authority staff.
A range of interactive training suitable for foster carers, social workers, supervising social workers, family service workers, topics include:
Attachment - So What?
Child Development from an Attachment Trauma Perspective
Grief and Loss
Communicating with Children
Building Resilience
Riding the Waves (placement stability)
The Teenage Wonder Years
Connecting with PACE
Therapeutic re-parenting
Educational settings
Daytime or Twilight training sessions - Training topics include
Attachment and trauma: The impact upon learning and behaviour
Child Development from an Attachment Trauma Perspective
Approaches for Hard to Reach Pupils
Connecting with PACE
Building Resilience
Other bespoke training topics can be arranged
Upcoming Events
Nurturing Attachments
For Adoptive Parents
14 session group programme
Starting 9th September 2019 ending 20th January 2020
Mondays 7pm - 9:30pm in Nantwich
Foundations for Attachment
For Adoptive Parents
A 6 session group programme
Starting 13th May ending 15th July 2019
Mondays 7pm - 9:30pm in Nantwich
Adoption Support Fund
Training courses for adoptive parents and special guardianship carers can be accessed through the Adoption Support Fund.
All funding is applied for by your Local Authority. Once assessed, the local authority will apply for the funding on your behalf and make payment to the provider.