Adoption UK is now offering practitioners individual places on our Insight and Strategies workshop, based on the highly successful parent support programme ‘It’s a Piece of Cake?’ All the workshops below are suitable for social workers, health visitors, therapists, teachers and others who work with adoptive or foster families.

Insight and Strategies: two-day workshop aiming to give practitioners a deeper understanding of life in an adoptive or foster family. Learn strategies to help support parents and carers living with hurt children, and develop understanding.

What the participants of Insight and Strategies say...

"This course has given me the insight into developing more positive strategies and advising carers."

"I feel I am better able to do my job in supporting adopters."

"We can go away with practical ideas about working with adopters and other carers. This is rare in a course. The exercises helped to focus on certain issues and these will be retained and not be put in a drawer and forgotten."

One-day workshops

Agencies can purchase the following one-day workshops for their practitioners at a venue and date of their choice:

Parental Substance Misuse: information on the physical and behavioural effects on children born to parents misusing alcohol, tobacco and drugs, and possible long term implications. Provides knowledge and information to develop strategies in the home, school and community.

School and Education Issues: issues that may arise in the classroom for a child due to the effects of separation, loss, trauma and attachment. Explores strategies and practical suggestions for supporting the child in school.

Contact and the Adopted Child: explores the purpose and meaning of contact for those involved, looking at different types of contact and how it can help a child develop a healthy sense of identity.

Telling About Adoption: explores the importance of life story work and telling about adoption. Covers practicalities, resources and potential difficulties involved in undertaking life story work.

To find out more about Adoption UK’s training in England or Scotland, contact the Training Team.

For information about training in Northern Ireland contact Trainer Coordinator Sheila Lavery.