Escape The Trap Facilitator Training
Become a Facilitator
If you are working with young people, recognise the emerging levels of abuse they can experience in their early relationships and want to take a pro-active approach to addressing the issue and support those you work with then Escape the Trap is for you.
During the three day CPD Accredited training facilitators will learn how to run this programme, exploring ways to address the difficult and sensitive issue of teenage relationship abuse in an interactive way using experiential activities and self-reflection.
The programme is also accessible to use one to one with the accompanying Escape the Trap workbook.
Practitioners are training to become facilitators across the UK and represent a wide range of agencies including: school pastoral & learning mentors, school nurses, pupil referral unit’s, youth offending, youth services, children & young people’s services, specialist domestic abuse services, Brook Advisory, community safety, behaviour consultants, counsellors, scout leaders, police, IDSVA’s & YDVA’s.
Training Outline
Escape the Trap facilitator training will support practioners to learn about the:
- Concept & structure of the programme
- Group agreements
- Exploring one’s own thinking and understanding about teenage relationship abuse
- Additonal Risk Factors
- Generating discussion with young people
- Develop ways to address the difficult and sensitive issue of teenage relationship abuse using experiential activities and self-reflection
- Understanding prevalance of social media abuse
- Working flexibly to meet the needs of your group
- Safety planning with young people
- Monitoring Risk
- Applying the programme in one to one work
- The Escape the Trap facilitator training event provides an intensive learning experience over three days.
Over the three-day facilitator training, practitioners will gain an understanding of the complex dynamics of teenage relationship abuse. Each week of the programme will be explored in depth so practitioners will feel confident and equipped to deliver it at the end of the training.
All practitioners must have completed recognised safeguarding training.
Please see our Events page for forthcoming dates.
Testimonials
Who’s in Charge? Facilitator Training
Three-day Facilitator Training.
Overall Aims of the Nine Week Programme
- Reduce parent’s feelings of isolation.
- Challenge parent’s feelings of guilt.
- Lessen deterministic thinking about causes (e.g. “he can’t help it.. he has ADHD” or “… he saw his father be violent”) – it is always multi-causal.
- Reinforce belief in possibility of change (without giving false hope or creating complacency).
- Clarify boundaries of what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour (harder than it sounds as there are many grey areas and we need to avoid imposing our own values).
- Arm parents with some simple concepts that have proved empowering: e.g. entitlement, the power of being irresponsible, etc.
- Examine strategies for creating meaningful and practical consequences for unacceptable behaviour. The approach of most parenting courses and materials is to assume that children are basically cooperative and only need encouragement and positivity to be good. These approaches usually have failed miserably with the oppositional children of the WiC? parents. Finding consequences for children who care about little and don’t want to cooperate is very difficult.
- Explore anger, both children’s and (often more usefully) parents’
- Encourage assertiveness
- Encourage self-care
- Reinforce progress and provide emotional support while parents are attempting to become more assertive parents.
Goals:
- It is expected that parents will feel less depressed and powerless by the end of the course (evaluation of those who complete the course strongly supports this at two month follow up).
- It is hoped that the amount of violence and abusive behaviour will decrease in a majority of the families and the majority of group completers do report less abuse (but this depends on many variables that are out of our control and change in children’s behaviour may be a long term consequence of changes in parental behaviour). The majority of parents (about 66%) do report an improvement in their problem child’s abusive behaviour at 2-month follow-up. However, most are still experiencing some verbal abuse and yelling. Changing parents behaviour is part of a long process of change for many.
- Raise awareness of the issue of violence to parents in the community and in the field.
Child on Parent Violence Talk Radio Interview – 7 August 2019
WIC? Facilitator Training
For further information on our three day training in the Who’s in Charge? programme please click the WIC? Training Booking Form at the top of the page.
Also look at our Child to Parent Violence One Day Workshop.
For further information on this training, please contact Cathy directly via the Contact page.
Please see our Events page for forthcoming dates.
