Hope for Children and Families Intervention Resources -Core elements in working with children and families following maltreatment, and promoting family rehabilitation

• The workshop is aimed at practitioners working with children and families following maltreatment, and promoting family rehabilitation. Participants will be introduced to core intervention skills for direct work with... [ view full abstract ]

• The workshop is aimed at practitioners working with children and families following maltreatment, and promoting family rehabilitation. Participants will be introduced to core intervention skills for direct work with children and their parent/carers, through a videoed case example.
• An essential pre-requisite is a thorough assessment and analysis – the Safeguarding Assessment and Analysis Framework (SAAF) which evidences the potential for children and families to respond to intervention. The goal is to modify parental stress and associated abusive and neglectful parenting, promote positive parenting, secure attachments, safety and good quality care, and address any impairment of the child’s health and development, emotional and traumatic and disruptive responses, and promote resilience.
• The training approach draws on core elements of the Hope for Children and Families Intervention Resources, an innovative modular approach which provides a toolkit of resources grounded in and distilled from, the most effective evidence-based processes and practices. The approach is distinct from typical evidence-based protocols; it permits flexibility in selecting which intervention applies to the particular child and family the practitioner is working with. The approach is interactive, dynamic and collaborative, working closely with parents and children, and wider family creating a platform for strategic and responsive applications of evidence-based procedures.
- Piloting has demonstrated the effectiveness, and value of an approach which empowers the practitioner to choose which element of the resources to work with children and their families in the process of achieving collaborative goals. The approach can also help the practitioner to design an approach which is appropriate for particular forms of maltreatment their agency is working with, such as working with physical and emotional abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and exposure to violence, and children requiring alternative care.