Identity - Understanding the Needs of Looked After Children
Target Audience
Adopters / CAH Staff / Connected Carers / Foster Carers / SGO's / Short Break Carers
Event Types
Course (daytime)
Course categories
Adopters and Foster Carers / Children and Young People
Adopters and Foster Carers subcategories
CS4 - Equality and Diversity
Children and Young People subcategories
Children's Social Care
Event description
A healthy, coherent sense of identity is fundamental to good mental health and wellbeing in all of us. So how can we enable our children to develop this amidst all the disruptions in their lives?
Come to this interactive two day course if you want to discover the essential building blocks:
• What Identity is and why is it important
• What particular challenges do children brought up in care face?
• What specific issues toddlers and teenagers encounter
• Tools and skills to strengthen a positive sense of identity in our children
Anna is the author of “Becoming an Ally to the Gender-Expansive Child: A guide for parents and carers”
This course has been recommended by carers and social workers.
To register your interest in attending this course, please request a place
Learning outcomes
• To consider identity theory and how this might shape and influence communication and decision-making
• To deepen awareness and understanding of how difference impacts upon the experience of children and young people and their emerging identity
• To reflect on, discuss and problem solve any current issues for foster carers and adopters
• To work together as a group sharing our knowledge and
• To inform best practice in our care of children looked after or adopted
Closing Date
Wednesday 21 March 2018
Start Date
Thursday 22 March 2018
Start Date
Friday 23 March 2018