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Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 33 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Wednesday mornings) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour

Description:

The 10 weekly online sessions for adoptive parents and carers will take place from 10.00am to 11.30am on Wednesdays via Zoom on the following dates:

September 20 & 27
October 4, 11 & 18
November 1, 8, 15, 22 & 29

The group includes one follow-up group session on December 13 2023 plus one initial consultation meeting, one review meeting and one report per participant or couple.

We will be coordinating with the different half terms over the country and may adapt the above dates if needed.

Who should attend

Adoptive parents and special guardians.

Participants will learn to:

- Take a firm stance against violence
- Hold back from physical or verbal violence
- Increase positive presence in your child’s life
- De-escalate conflicts
- Break the cycle of shame and silence
- Make changes in relating to your child in the long term
- Reduce distress for parent and child
- Feel more in control
- Recruit and use supporters
- Enjoy the benefits of being part of a group

Facilitators

Charlene Campbell: PTUK qualified Play Therapist, registered with BACP. Charlene has worked with children and young people for 20 years. Some of this time has been spent helping primary aged children break down barriers to learning within an educational context. This consisted of delivering sessions to groups of young people to help tackle difficulties such as self-esteem, confidence, bullying and friendship. She has spent several years working with Looked-After Children who display extremely challenging behaviours and have social and emotional difficulties. Charlene currently works as a play therapist, supporting children/young people to improve their mental health-and-wellbeing and also families and schools, who need advice about difficulties experienced by their pupils. Charlene has completed her Level 3 NVR training for professionals and delivers NVR to groups and to individual parents. She is a Certified Theraplay© Practitioner, has trained in Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy and is also a BUSS Practitioner in Training.

Kasia Kurylowicz: Practice Manager, qualified Social Worker, registered with Social Work England. Based at our Head Office in London, Kasia manages the delivery of our national Child to Parent Violence programme. Kasia has many years of experience of working with children, young people and their families in a wide range of contexts, including statutory social work, therapeutic social work and independent practice. Kasia has worked with children and families affected by parental alcohol misuse, child sexual exploitation, domestic violence, and other contexts and has completed training in Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) Level 1. Kasia is neurodivergent and passionate about supporting neurodivergent children and adults.

Parent Graduate with lived experience of dealing with challenging behavior and implementing NVR - Participants have found it invaluable to have Parent Graduate Facilitators with lived experience (been there and got the t-shirt) as an integral part of the NVR team.

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Price excluding VAT

£2,425 per person
£3,898 per couple

IMPORTANT: If you are making a couples booking you MUST click on the yellow 'Add more attendees' toggle box at the bottom of the booking form and add the requested partner details information. This will also ensure you are charged the correct price when you submit your booking form.

Payment via the Adoption Support Fund (ASF):

Adoptive Parents and Special Guardians

  1. Please register your expression of interest by emailing  cpv@pac-uk.org
  2. Please approach your local authority as soon as possible, sending them this flyer. They must apply for ASF funding. Please include social worker/ support team contact details in your expression of interest email.

Social workers

  1. Please register your expression of interest for parents to attend by emailing cpv@pac-uk.org
  2. It is then crucial that you apply to the ASF as a matter of urgency. We will send you a breakdown of costs to facilitate the ASF application. We will also ask you to complete a referral form so we have some information about the family’s situation.
  3. Once you have submitted the application to the ASF please complete the online booking form at pac-uk.org/cpv and select ‘Invoice’ for ‘Payment Type’ and ‘ASF – PON to follow’ (Purchase Order No) unless already known. This will mean that a place will be held for the parent.


Paying Privately

  • Please register your expression of interest by emailing cpv@pac-uk.org We will get back to you at the earliest opportunity.

If you have any questions about this online group, please call 020 7284 0555 or email us cpv@pac-uk.org or Kasia kasia@pac-uk.org.

We are sorry but registration for this event is now closed.

Please contact us if you would like to know if spaces are still available.

IMPORTANT: To ensure we are alerted to your booking you must 'Confirm Registration' after submitting your details. You will also get a confirmation email when you do this.

If you do not receive the confirmation email within a few minutes, please check your Junk folder just in case the confirmation email got delivered there instead of your Inbox. If so, select the confirmation message and mark it Not Junk, which should allow future messages to get through.

Once you have confirmed registration you must select an 'online' or 'off-line' payment option. If paying by Debit/Credit card you must click on the PayPal icon under 'On-line Payment Processing'. You will be redirected to a PayPal screen where you can either login to PayPal (if you have a PayPal account) OR click on the 'Check Out as a Guest' button where you can pay via Debit/Credit card without needing to login to a PayPal account.