Please note this training is a 2 half-day course, details below.

Dates: 9th & 10th January 2017
Time: Start 10am – Finish 14:30pm (please aim to arrive 15 minutes before for registration and refreshments)

Why do some young people cope with difficulties more easily than others? What factors really make a difference to how we deal with adversity? What can practitioners do to make a difference? This one-day course explores how you can develop an approach that builds on strengths to help young people deal with adversity, cope with change, survive disappointment and manage crises. It will draw upon practice, research and theory. Above all, it will enable participants to reflect upon their experience and build on their own strengths.

The course will include:

• Resilience, risk and coping – what do we mean
• Key resilience qualities for individuals and families
• Implications of the different coping styles of young women and young men
• Protective factors for individuals, families and communities
• The significance of emotional intelligence, problem solving and optimism
• Listening to young people and families and developing relationships of care
• Supporting connectedness

About the Trainer
Cris Hoskin has over 30 years’ experience of working with young people, parents and families in a variety of settings. This includes working with young people and parents in mainstream school, specialist (EBD) school, child and adolescent mental health and in the Youth Justice System. She has also worked in the voluntary sector for a number of years managing projects nationally for the Youth Justice Board and the Home office. She has been delivering courses for a number of years on a part time basis. In 2010 Cris left her post as commissioning lead for parenting services in a Local Authority to become a full-time freelance trainer and consultant. She is also experienced in delivering a variety of courses to adult learners focussing on the emotional well-being of children and adolescence and training parenting and family practitioners.

To book your place, email SCWDP at Cardiff Council at [email protected] or call (029) 2078 8428.