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iTrent Self Service


MHFA will give you the skills and confidence to recognise symptoms, provide initial help, and guide the person towards appropriate professional help.

This brief introductory workshop will present some creative, physical, sensory, and cognitive emotional regulation tips and tools which can be used and transferred to work with children, adult, and parents, including for our own regulation. Including breathing and relaxation strategies; and tools such as creating sensory boxes and supporting young people, ourselves and the team around them to find their inner calm. This will include some of the tools from the bestselling Presley the Pug, The Therapeutic Treasure Box, and the Therapeutic treasure deck of cards.

Dr Karen Treisman is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who has worked in the National Health System and children’s services for several years. Karen has also worked cross-culturally in both Africa and Asia with groups ranging from former child soldiers to survivors of the Rwandan Genocide. She also is the author of 10 books, including the bestselling book, “The therapeutic treasure box”, 4 sets of therapeutic card decks, and 6 therapeutic soft cuddly toys.
Karen has extensive experience in the areas of trauma, parenting, adversity (ACE’s) and attachment, and works clinically using a range of therapeutic approaches with families, systems, and children in or on the edge of care, unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people, and adopted children. Karen also specialises in supporting organisations and systems to move towards becoming, and to sustain adversity, culturally and, trauma-informed, infused, and responsive practice. This work focuses on creating meaningful and multi-layered cultural and paradigm shift across whole systems. This was the focus of Dr Treisman’s Winston Churchill Fellowship Karen was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship Travel Award which involved visited several places in the USA to further study whole system and organisational approaches to trauma-informed and trauma-responsive care and this topic is the focus of Dr Treisman’s next book due to be published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers entitled “A Treasure Box for Creating Trauma-Informed Organizations: A Ready-to-Use Resource For Trauma, Adversity, and Culturally Informed, Infused and Responsive Systems”.
In addition to holding a doctorate in Clinical psychology, Karen has undergone a range of specialist training courses including in EMDR, Narrative Therapy, Trauma-focused CBT, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Systemic Psychotherapy, Video Interaction Guidance, Sensory Approaches, and Theraplay.

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In Wandsworth the Early Help IT System (EHITS) is used by the workforce to record and share information, taken from the Early Help Assessment form, securely for children and young people that they are working with. EHITS can also be used to request services from organisations.

5 places remaining

Meets: Monthly
Venue: Online, via Zoom
The MRC Critical and Reflective Practice group, at King’sCollege London, is a well-established forum that provides an opportunity to:

• Identify and discuss key areas of emerging social work research;
• Explore the implications of major policy documents for practice;
• Debate and discuss key areas in contemporary social work with colleagues from across London.

The MRC Critical and Reflective Practice Forum has run for 15 years, and brings together practitioners and managers from across London and the South East. This unique forum works as a ‘book group’, looking at articles, research papers and policy documents, which are
circulated beforehand to members, and considers their implications for practice.
Topics are selected by the group but, recently, have included: a critical appraisal of the concept of disguisedcompliance; how we engage fathers; the impact of Covid-19; and pre-birth assessments.

Each session to be book on TPD online

Friday 25 September 2020, 10-11am
Friday 30 October 2020, 10-11am
Friday 27 November 2020, 10-11am

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A feature of many of the children and young people we work with, as well as very often their parents, is that they have experienced trauma in their lives.
This webinar will explore the impact that trauma can have.

The webinar will cover:
• The impact of trauma on all aspects of child and ado- lescent development;
• Theoretical and research-based frameworks for understanding the nature of trauma;
• The combined impact that trauma and discrimination can play in the lives of children and young people;
• The meaning of trauma-informed practice;
• Practical interventions that can help children recover from the impact of trauma.

3 places remaining

*IF YOU ARE EMPLOYED BY RICHMOND OR WANDSWORTH COUNCILS, PLEASE BOOK THIS COURSE VIA YOUR ITRENT SELF SERVICE*

iTrent Self Service 

Acquire the coaching skills to better motivate, engage and work with your staff

Acquire the knowledge to make your work environment safe from the dangerous substance of asbestos.

Matching a child with a foster carer or adopter is one of the turning points in a child's life (Schofield et al 2011). Successful matching depends on good assessment, clear support plans, careful decision making and a high level of information sharing between professionals.
This best practice briefing will share key messages from research and skills in improving matching for our children and young people in Wandsworth.

Make yourself aware of how best to make your work environment safe and how you should conduct yourself.

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This training course has been developed in order to provide Wandsworth Councils Children’s Social Services staff with a firm theoretical and practical understanding of Mosaic navigation, administration and Workflow functions, as well as Wandsworth Councils Mosaic recording standards.