Our Projects
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Hope for Children and Families Programme
Promoting children’s health and development: building on strengths and overcoming difficulties, using evidence-based assessment and intervention with children and families.
Child and Family Training (C&FT) is a not-for-profit organisation that:
- develops evidence-based approaches to assessment, analysis, planning and intervention; and
- provides customised, skills based training for practitioners and managers working with children and their families
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Newly Qualified Social Workers Programmes
The C&FT 12 month programme for NQSWs in assessment, analysis and intervention delivered in Surrey County Council for three years has been positively evaluated.
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Therapeutic interventions for anxiety, depression, trauma and disruptive behaviour - utilising the Hope for Children and Families Intervention Resources
Anxiety, mood disturbance, trauma and disruptive behaviour are the most common forms of mental health problems suffered by children and young people. Reports of self-harming behaviour, pain, distress and worrying behaviour are increasing.
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAHMS) are unable to help all children and young people who find themselves in the circumstances. This means practitioners in social care, health, education and youth justice frequently have to work with children and young people who present with these symptoms and support families who are often overwhelmed and in despair.
The Hope for Children and Families approach provides a step by step set of evidence-based modules and guides, which can be utilised by all practitioners with children, young people and their families.
The guide to these approaches can be downloaded here.
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MAPChiPP Project
C&FT are working in partnership with MAPChiPP (Multi-disciplinary Assessment and Participation of Children in Child Protection Proceedings), a European project, developing a 'train the trainer' programme for practitioners in child protection.
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Communication and assessment apps for use with children and young people
Child and Family Training have also developed three iPad communication and assessment apps for use with children and young people.
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Childhood Neglect
Access the free training and development materials.
HfCF Intervention Guides
An evidence-based step by step approach to intervention and work sheets for use with children and families.
Latest News
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1st ISPCAN Caribbean Regional Conference
1st to 5th December 2018
Arnon Bentovim is presenting a workshop entitled Hope for Children and Families – Modular, Multi-Focal Interventions for Child Maltreatment.
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ISPCAN XX11 International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect, Prague
2nd - 6th September 2018
Child and Family Training made the following presentations and workshops at the conference:
Bentovim, A., Gray, J. and Vizard, E. - Treatment of complex maltreatment and related complex developmental trauma: utilising an evidence-based modular approach
Pizzey, S. - Assessment, analysis and intervention using the hope for children and families approaches
Calam, R. and El-Khani, A. - Working with families and caregivers to provide mental health and psychosocial support for children affected by armed conflict and displacement
Vizard, E., Gray, J. and von Werthern, M. - A focus on the mental health of refugee children on the move in Europe: Modular interventions for these maltreated children.
Timmer, M., Meysen, T. and Pizzey, S. - Participation of children in child protection proceedings: A European training program
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3rd International Congress on Child Protection, Unye, Turkey
30 September to 3 October 2018
Dr Arnon Bentovim, Işıl Coklar, Jenny Gray, Mehmet Akif Guzel, Stephen Pizzey and Sezen Zeytinoglu will present a pre-conference workshop using the Turkish version of the Safeguarding Children Assessment and Analysis Framework and introducing the newly published Hope for Children and Families Intervention Resources.
Jenny Gray will give a plenary presentation on International Perspectives on Child Witnesses
Dr Bentovim will give a plenary presentation on The Impact of Being Witnesses on Children’s Mental Health and the Longer Term Wellbeing of Children
Dr Bentovim will also give a plenary presentation on Malign Impacts of Toxic Stress on Children’s Development and Mental Health
David Glasgow will give a plenary presentation on In My Shoes: A computer toolkit for forensic and investigative interviewing of young children
C&FT will have an information desk at the conference.
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Evaluation of the Safeguarding Children Assessment and Analysis Framework (SAAF)
December 2017
A randomised control trial of the SAAF, was carried out in six local authorities over a two-year period. The largest local authority in the study recorded a significant reduction in the number of children made subject to a child protection plan.