This FREE online training aims to support practitioners in understanding signs of trauma and how it may present in the early years.
By focusing on Trauma in the Early Years, practitioners will be able to support children in identifying how to stay safe and encourage them to share when they may be struggling.
Target audience: Early years practitioners, leaders, managers, teachers, and childminders.
Organisation: West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership
Contact: vrp@westmidlands.police.uk
Cost: Free
Places: Limited - first come, first served
Dates & booking (choose your preferred date and book via the corresponding link below):
NOTE: This training is being offered monthly throughout the year. Please only book on to one session.
Thu 25 Jan, 10:00-11:00
Thu 29 Feb, 10:00-11:00
Thu 28 Mar, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 25 Apr, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 23 May, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 27 Jun, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 25 Jul, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 29 Aug, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 26 Sep, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 31 Oct, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Thu 28 Nov, 10:00-11:00
BOOK: Wed 11 Dec, 10:00-11:00
What is the West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership?
The West Midlands Violence Reduction Partnership (WM VRP) aims to reduce violent crime across the West Midlands region. It benefits from the expertise of partners in public health, criminal justice, sports, education, and policing in order to take on a collaborative approach towards reducing violence.
Violence and the causes of violent acts are complex and multi-layered. Tackling the root causes is not straightforward. It takes time and cooperation between organisations with a shared will.
The WM VRP adopts a public health approach to violence. This means thinking about violence in the same way that doctors consider the spread of diseases. It means focusing on understanding the root causes of the problem and on testing, evaluating and upscaling interventions. Developing stronger data and analysis about the problem is key to working in this way.
This is an opportunity to take a longer term approach, to deliver a safer world for the next generation. Some of the VRP’s prevention activities involve the whole community and others are focused on supporting those most likely to be affected by violence. The aim is to keep people safe and free of violence in their lives.