Promoting Resilience, Positive Mental, Social & Physical Health – Advanced

Participants must have a good working knowledge of the PACE model.

This course shows how Resilience is linked to recovery from trauma and how adults can help children and young people to develop Resilience.

Building resilience is the ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats or even significant sources of stress. Resilience can help our children manage stress and feelings of anxiety and uncertainty. Emotional pain and sadness are common when we have suffered a significant trauma or personal loss or even when we hear of someone else’s loss or trauma.

Looked-after children and young people should expect the same opportunities as other children and young people, including being healthy and safe. In addition, they should be provided with the options needed to help them move successfully to adulthood. The needs of looked-after children and young people vary but are often complex and can be met only by a range of services operating collaboratively across different settings. This course provides an overview of the physical and emotional health and welfare needs of children in care and how carers can work towards meeting them.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Assist Foster Carers to be able to define what is meant by Resilience
2. Look at Resilience concerning recovery from childhood trauma and abuse.
3. Examine building Resilience in the context of the child’ s various social networks
4. Identify factors that contribute to Resilience and how we can support them.
5. Plan ways of building on the child’ s strengths and increasing Resilience and positive self-identity
6. Understand what positive mental health means and how the definition can differ from person to person and within different settings
7. Understand the factors affecting health and wellbeing
8. Understanding how health outcomes for looked-after children can be improved
9. Understand the roles and responsibilities of carers in promoting healthy lifestyles for children in their care
10. Understand the importance of Resilience and how to help children in care develop and maintain it
11. Identify and understand the importance of support strategies for the carer.
12. Appreciate the roles of key health professionals and how to contact the