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We leverage modern digital solutions to expand how carers and professionals access and engage with training and peer-learning about trauma-informed care. We do this through accredited and non-accredited training, facilitation of peer networks, leading research initiatives, and translating knowledge to guide practice. Community of Practices workshops for therapeutic specialists, house managers and more.

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Foster Care Week is an annual celebration of foster carers and their supporters for contributions they make to children’s lives. Jess Wright, an occupational therapist with a psychology background, recently received the Outstanding Support for Exceptional Circumstances Award for her work supporting foster carers over an 18-month period.
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Foster Care Week, observed from September 10-16, is an annual celebration acknowledging the incredible contribution our volunteer foster carers make to the lives of children in out-of-home care. The theme for 2023 was “Hearts of Gold”, a theme that reflects the type of person it takes to commit to welcoming someone else’s child into their home.
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    Research

    We partner with leading researchers to identify and fill the gaps in knowledge about what works in out-of-home care.

    Learn

    We facilitate monthly communities of practice for therapeutic specialists, and those with a clinical role, in therapeutic residential care.

    Innovate

    We innovate and curate collections of knowledge on critical practice issues in out-of-home care.

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    About us

    Why is reflection important for trauma-informed work?

    Why did you become a therapeutic specialist?

    What would you tell others thinking about becoming a therapeutic specialist?

    What changes have you seen in the young people you work with?

    What are the best parts of being a therapeutic specialist?

    What are the challenges of being a therapeutic specialist?

    How does the exposure to trauma impact on staff?

    What is the role of relationship in therapeutic care?

    What is an average day for a therapeutic specialist?

    What is a therapeutic specialist?

    Welcome to responding to child sexual exploitation

    Safe Connections: How to use the resource kit