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Training course: The Impact of Trauma & Abuse
Duration: 9.45am to 12.30pm (including light refreshments on arrival)
Cost: £50

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This half-day training course is designed for those supporting children who have experienced trauma and abuse in their lives. The session will give participants an understanding of the impact these experiences have on their development, with a specific focus on emotional health.

Target audience: counsellors; mental health workers; teachers; social care workers; education and health professionals; foster carers; residential staff; police; and other professionals supporting children.

Learning outcomes:
By the end of the session participants will be able to:
•    Explain the complexity of a child's experience of being trafficked
•    Define stress, crisis and trauma
•    Define the symptoms of universal trauma and complex trauma
•    Identify the needs of a child and how these may be met with therapeutic care

Course facilitators:
Karen Sizeland - Karen is the Training Manager at ECPAT UK. As a qualified social worker and children’s advocate, child protection and children’s rights have been the focus of her career to date. Karen has a wide range of experience: in the local authority with a Children and Families Team; with the NSPCC as a Child Protection Officer; as a freelance advocate for two national children’s charities, National Youth Advocacy Service and Voice, and as the Training Manager for an Independent Fostering Agency. Karen holds a Certificate In Training Practice, awarded by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people.