This session is the third training session as part of a four-part training series, supporting cultural organisations to improve their work for care-experienced children and young people. This is a partnership programme with Arts Connect, funded by Arts Council England. These training sessions have been informed by The Mighty Creatives’ award-winning Creative Mentoring programme.

About the session

By the end of this session, participants will leave with a better understanding of:

• Trauma-Informed Practices and Adverse Childhood experiences,
• How to support children and young people who have experienced Adverse Childhood Experiences and Trauma,
• How our brain processes trauma and the long-term impacts this can have on a child/young person’s development, behaviour, attachments and approaches,
• The importance of creativity and creative practice on our development,
• How our practices can better support the young people we work with.

The session will be interactive and will take participants through a series of:

• Interactive Q&A sessions,
• Breakout discussions,
• Videos and audio examples,
• An exploration of case studies inspired by real-life examples.

About the Training Series

The training series (of four training sessions) aims to give participating organisations a better understanding of challenges that children in care face, how we safeguard ourselves and participants as well as how we can apply our vital creative practices to support them more meaningfully.

This session is session three of four. The following training session will be taking place on the below date:

• Thursday 30th May 09:00-12:30 – Empowering Children and Young People’s Voices.

It’s compulsory for participating organisations to take part in 3 out of the 4 training sessions, with one of these attended being the Safeguarding Best Practice session.

About the project

This training series is part of a pilot project, in partnership with Arts Connect, funded by Arts Council England. It aims to explore and research how Virtual Schools and Cultural Organisations can develop better and more meaningful partnerships to respond to an area of need.

Cultural organisations engaging in the training series will have the opportunity to apply to be part of the project, where organisations will be matched to a Virtual School partner to deliver and exploratory research project, subject to shortlisting and matching.

To find out more about the project, please visit our website here.

If you have any questions, please email Emily.york@themightycreatives.com.