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Training and Assessment:

Today I have learnt

‘..alot of really good methods and  a new approach towards the children’
‘how to communicate better with disabled children’

Today I thought the trainer was

‘clear and gave me good information’
‘Brilliant ...he has given useful information for communicating and working with disabled children more effectively...he was clear and informative’

Martin (DICE) has jointly created resources to promote the work of the Champion for disabled children and young people – Birmingham.
Martin has also worked with the Champion to facilitate and deliver consultation sessions with disabled children and young people around Short Breaks, and the inclusion of disabled children and young people views in the strategic plans for Birmingham Local Authority.
The quality of work supplied by Martin is of a consistent and high quality. Martin works in partnership to ensure that all key objectives and outcomes of the work is achieved in a timely fashion. His skills and knowledge of inclusion, engagement and participation has without a doubt enabled the success of these two areas of work. Tony Phillips Jones (champion for disabled children and young people)
 
 

This set of courses are designed to support workers in the field of youth or community education to develop responsive practice to the aspirations and support needs of disabled children and young people. The courses support best practice in enabling the self-determination of disabled children and young people through developing skills in PSHE & Citizenship, Youth Work Approaches, Creative Group Work, Emotional Literacy, Sex and Relationships, Peer Mentoring and Education and issues that disabled children and young people face in care.

Enabling PSHE and Citizenship with Disabled Children and Young People

Enabling PSHE and Citizenship with Young Disabled People
This course supports participants in key issues in working with young disabled people with personal, social, community and life skills. The course enables practitioners to deliver and develop pshe and citizenship within educational and non formal settings with individuals and groups.
Objectives:
  1.  Understand and explore the principles, benefits and challenges of PSHE/Citizenship work with Young Disabled People
  2.  Develop an understanding of perspectives of disability, rights and empowerment of young disabled people through responsive support
  3.  Support disabled young people to explore self and develop choice and decision making skills
  4.  Develop sex and relationship education * delivered as part of or as separate course
  5.  Support disabled young people to understand others and participate in the community
  6.  Develop strategies to enable disabled young people to form a positive self identity and to take action within their communities 
  7.  Explore barriers and develop strategies to enable effective participation
  8.  Develop an appropriate curriculum that enables empowerment of young disabled people

Listening and Responding to issues and needs through creative group work

Listening and Responding to Children’s Issues and Needs through Creative Group Work
This creative course supports participants to create projects with people they support to explore and address personal, social and collective issues they face through the facilitation of support and issue groups.

Objectives:
  1.  To guide the participants through the process of designing and delivering issue and needs based work with children and young people with identified issues
  2.  Explore the ideological benefits of developmental and social issue group work for children and young people with identified issues, examining the legal climate for pursuing this work
  3.  Design and structure programmes in response to identified issues and needs within your setting
  4.  Effectively evaluate, monitor and evidence children’s and young people’s development within sessions
  5.  Understand how to effectively facilitate group work with children and young people around their needs and issues, exploring issues of leadership and group dynamics
  6.  Respond to children and young people effectively
  7.  Develop creative approaches to enable children and young people to feel comfortable with exploring self
  8. Understand legal and ethical issues around group work and working with children and young people

Enabling Youthwork with Young Disabled People

Enabling Youth Work with Young Disabled People  – (management option available)
This course supports participants to enable and include disabled young people within youth work and informal education settings. Participants shall examine disability issues and legal requirements and develop strategies for implementing a disability curriculum. This course will enhance practitioners’ ability to design and deliver inclusive and specialist programmes that respond to young disabled people’s needs and wishes.
Objectives:
  1.  Understand the medical and social model of disability
  2.  Explore issues, barriers and discrimination that young disabled people face and how this can affect your practice in working with disabled young people
  3.  Introduce language and etiquette towards disabled young people
  4.  Explore rights and legislation that exists to support the achievement and participation within society
  5.  Introduce concepts of inclusion philosophy and barriers to leisure and education
  6.  Expand participants practical knowledge and awareness in how to support inclusion and prevent barriers to participation
  7.  Structure and develop services with disabled young people * management option
  8.  Analyse specialist and inclusive youth work provision and their benefits
  9.  Develop a model for a disability equality focused curriculum

Emotional Literacy with Disabled Children and Young People

 Emotional Literacy with Children with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism
This course equips participants with an understanding of how to enhance emotional understanding and development in their work with individuals and group settings.
Objectives:
  1.  Enable participants to explore, develop and define their understanding of emotional literacy
  2.  Develop participants’ ability to recognise the importance, benefits, challenges and barriers to emotional literacy
  3.  Support participants to develop emotional skills within their practice and activities in working with disabled children, young people and adults
  4.  Develop emotionally literate relationships and projects that enhance disabled children, young people and adults emotional understanding
  5.  Enable participants to evaluate and evidence improvement of emotional literacy within their work 

Sex and Relationships Education with Disabled Young People

Sex and Relationship Education with people described as having SLD/Autism/PMLD
This course equips participants with confidence and knowledge of how to explore sexual issues with hard to reach groups
Objectives:
  1.  Support participants to become comfortable and confident with supporting and educating people with learning disabilities about sex and relationship issues
  2.  Explore personal and professional values towards sex and relationships 
  3.  Inform participants of the rights of people with learning disability and legislation in this area
  4.  Enable participants to provide sensitive, constructive support
  5.  Identify and explore barriers and challenges in sex and relationship support and education with people with learning disabilities
  6.  Investigate and develop strategies, skills and resources
  7.  Involving parents and carers
  8.  Developing a sex and relationship education curriculum

Working with Disabled Children and Young People in Care

Working with Disabled Children and Young People in Care
Introduction:
This course supports participants to understand and explore the realities, barriers and challenges that exist for disabled children and young people who live in care. A major focus is on how to develop practice in accordance with the national minimum standards and enable disabled children and young people to be involved and actively participate in making choices and decisions about their lives and their life within and after care.
Objectives:
  1.  Understand and explore the barriers and challenges of living in care
  2.  Understand criteria of the national minimum standards
  3.  Equip participants with strategies to fulfil the national minimum standards in relation to disabled children and young people
  4.  Support participants to enable  people with learning disabilities to build community and develop plans that enable their views and wishes to be hear

Peer Mentoring and Peer Education with Young Disabled People

Perfect for new or developing projects, this course will introduce you to the concepts of peer mentoring and peer education and support you to develop skills and understanding of peer education and peer mentoring in relation to working with disabled children and young people.

Objectives:

• Understand the benefits and outcomes of peer mentoring and peer education

• Understand the differences and similarity between peer mentoring and peer education approaches

• Develop understanding of policies and procedures

• Develop skills in supporting disabled children and young people to be peer mentors /educators

• Support workers to design and develop an responsive peer education / peer mentoring programme
 
 
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