Events
Please find below information on Adoption UK events and events by other organisations which may be of use to prospective adopters, adoptive parents and practitioners.
Adoption UK conferences and workshops listings can be found on the Training pages
Social Consequences of Poor Infant Attachment ... Two is too late
When: Friday 18 May 2012
Where: The Atrium, Whittlebury Park, Northamptonshire
Event held by: NORPIP
Speakers:
- Iain Duncan Smith MP, politician who established the Centre for Social Justice and is dedicated to improving the life of society's lost and neglected.
- Professor Susan Greenfield, world respected neuroscientist
- Dr. Michael Galbraith, psychologist from Alder Hey Hospital
- Dr Amanda Jones, world-renowned attachment therapist
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and director of Kids Company
- Andrea Leadsom MP, started NORPIP, was elected as the first MP for South Northamptonshire in May 2010 and is a trustee (and for 9 years chairman) of OXPIP.
- George Hosking, founder of children's charity The Wave Trust
The neurological effects on a baby’s brain development because of the failure to bond or attach to its parent during the first crucial two years of life is profound, and only recently understood.
Our one day conference will inform all child based practitioners of this new found research and the importance of intervention long before the age of two when the nerve cells of the infant’s brain have been laid down.
Learning to be Difficult or Difficulties with Learning?
Education based probelms and solutions for parents.
When: Wednesday 30 May 2012
Where: Islington, London
Event held by: Family Futures
Does your child have problems with planning? Getting himself organised? Thinking through what she needs to do to complete tasks at home or at school? Does he seem chaotic, clumsy, forgetful, or takes ages to do basic things? Does she get frustrated, downhearted, anxious or agitated when she is faced with even a simple challenge? It may be that he or she has difficulties with what is known in the field of cognitive psychology as “Executive Functioning”.
This Workshop is an opportunity for adoptive parents and foster carers to learn how to help your children develop these important skills.
Speakers:
Marion Allen, Education Consultant
Who should attend:
Adoptive parents, foster carers, prospective adopters and foster carers and parents/carers of children who have experienced on-going trauma in their early formative years.
For further imformation, prices and to book a place on this workshop download the following information flyer and booking form:
Learning to be Difficult Flyer and Booking Form
Why Attachment Matters - in Education
When: Friday 14 September 2012
Where: The Thistle Hotel, Glasgow
Event held by: Scottish Attachment in Action and The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH)
Speaker:
- Louise Bomber – internationally renowned expert in the field of education and attachment and author of Inside I’m Hurting and What About Me?
Louise Bomber will present on supporting pupils - at home and in residential care - who have experienced significant relational traumas and losses. Some of the themes Louise will cover over the course of the day will be:
- the attachment framework
- the specific difficulties these pupils face
- the need for translation
- the pupil's voice
- the parent/carer's voice
- features of an attachment-friendly school
- practical strategies to address relational capacities that need development
Please not the AGM of Scottish Attachment in Action will be at 3.30pm.
Prices:
Members of Scottish Attachment in Action and ACAMH - £96
Non-members: £108
Adoptive, foster and kinship carers: £96
All prices are inclusive of VAT
For further information and to book, please contact Barbara Godden on 0131 555 5350 or email barbaragodden@adoptionuk.org.uk