About CoECT
At the Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma C I C, we offer trauma-informed training, support, and resources designed to assist parents and professionals in understanding and addressing the complexities of child trauma.
We are a dedicated team of professionals with lived experience of caring for children who have adverse childhood experiences or those who display neurodiverse characteristics
Our mission is to support families by offering trauma-informed training, providing therapeutic support, and an online community for parents and Supporting Professionals who work with families.
Our work encompasses independently accredited qualification framework, comprehensive training both online and face to face with our inspirational speakers, best selling publications and books in the sector, bespoke support services for therapeutic parents and supporting professionals working across health and social care and education. This includes the ground-breaking Therapeutic Fostering Assessment now used as a streamlined process in agencies and LAs throughout the UK Centre of Excellence in Child Trauma
Sarah Naish CEO of CoECT C.I.C
Welcome Message
As an adopter of 5 children and former social worker, I found that there were huge gaps in resources that I needed to meet my children’s needs.
Over the last 20 years our team has worked hard to fill those gaps and provide a powerful range of services and resources to help everyone working in the field of child trauma.
I have been delighted by the best selling levels of sales for our books, including the well known A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting, this has now opened the door to more learning for our colleagues. We pride ourselves on offering real life solutions and practical break through moments.
We now work globally, delivering training days, conferences, and keynote speeches, in the UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, Ireland, Malta, Estonia, New Zealand and Australia
Whatis TraumaInformedPractice (TherapeuticParenting)
Reference: Trauma-Informed Wales: A Societal Approach to Understanding, Preventing and Supporting the Impacts of Trauma and Adversity (2022) ACE Hub Wales & Traumatic Stress Wales
Topics Course
ACEs - Adverse Childhood Experiences
Becoming a Trauma Informed Practitioner (Level 4)
Best Trauma Informed Practice for Social Workers
Helping children who have been sexually harmed
Managing common behaviours
Managing Siblings
Online Safety
Overcoming Blocked Care and Reconnecting
Overcoming grief, guilt, and anxiety
PACE in Real Life
Resolving complex behaviours
Reconnecting to your child
Safeguarding
Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting
Therapeutically Managing Violent Behaviour
Therapeutic Parenting (practical application)
Trauma
Trauma Informed Life Story Work (Qualification)
Trauma Informed Teaching
What is the difference and how to implement it? (Standard Parenting vs Therapeutic Parenting) and anything else related to childhood trauma!
Conferences& Seminars
The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies & Solutions
Sarah Naish’s first-hand experiences of parenting 5 children with Developmental Trauma.
This seminar will guide parents and professionals in their Therapeutic Parenting journey and help them to…
·Overcome challenges. Understand how Trauma affects their children every day.
·Rediscover empathy
·Learn a step-by-step process to walk you through even the most difficult situations. Why do our children do the things they do?!
The P.A.R.E.N.T.S Model.
Practical solutions for real-life perspective - From Reactive to Proactive
Reducing stress by changing our approach to trauma. Information on the Trauma Tracker, Schools and Education, Behaviour Assessment Intervention Resolution Tools, preventing lying and stealing.
Straight talking solutions for professionals working with our most vulnerable children
- From Trauma to Trust
Truth, Lies, and the ‘Memory Carousel’ – Why do our children seem to remember things one day but not the next? Why do false allegations happen and what can we do about this? Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon will explain how this looks and feels from the parent, supporting professional and child perspectives, offering real strategies and insight to tackle these complex issues.
Healing Children through Therapeutic Parenting
Why do some children need therapeutic parenting? How is it different from ‘standard’ parenting? How can we practically put Therapeutic Parenting strategies in place and make a REAL difference? UK Leading expert Sarah Naish, answers all the questions and more in a clear and compelling manner. Inspirational, moving, and motivational
Essential Tools of Kinship Care
All the essential information for kinship carers, connected persons and special guardians. Taking things back to the beginning and thinking about where we start when it comes to kinship care. How to find safety in an unsafe system, looking at kinship/connected person options as a way out of the care system Thinking about how we recognise our children's early life trauma, then looking as strategies to support working with these behaviours.
Survival Strategies for Therapeutic Parents - From Chaos to Cake
Proactive mental health support for carers and parents If the A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting was your roadmap of strategies through to sanity, this conference is your hot flask of tea or coffee, and a cosy blanket which will keep you warm, safe, and well on your journey, ensuring you reach the other side, mentally and physically well.
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Therapeutic Parents Strategies-based Workshops
Inspirational workshop using their lived-in experiences.
Solve your hardest parenting problems, on the spot strategies and solutions therapeutic parenting workshop. Whatever your problem is, we have the answer!
Residential Children’s Home
Sarah Dillon has experience of therapeutic work in children’s home and Sarah Naish has run small groups of therapeutic children’s homes in the past. Together they do bespoke training for residential units
Strategies-based workshop - Starting off with why children do what they do, the trainers will then open this up for delegates to provide them with scenarios, and they will look at those in detail with strategies to manage that behaviour in their particular environment
Interrupting Trauma
On the day, as well as their tried and tested practical strategies for every situation, they will also help you to use trauma interruption methods such as Havening to see immediate and dramatic effects around Trauma-based behaviours and fear.
Our methods have produced amazing results leading to reconnection and family stability.
DistanceLearning& Qualifications
Level 1
First Steps in Parenting Certificate
Are you new to parenting and wondering what you do when you welcome your child home?
This is the introduction to parenting you will need.
Level 3
Diploma in Therapeutic Parent Coaching
The customised qualifications for Therapeutic Parent Coaching will assist you in comprehending how to provide support to parents and families through therapeutic parenting strategies and coaching tools. The Diploma equips participants with the skills to become effective coaches, providing comprehensive support to families and children dealing with parenting challenges.
Level 3
Certificate in Trauma-Informed Life Story Work
The qualification is aimed at supporting professionals (social workers, family support workers, children’s support workers, and therapists) who support children, young people, and their families to navigate the often challenging process of life story work.
Training FacetoFaceCourses
Caring for Sibling Groups
Domestic Abuse Training
Essential Guide to Kinship Care
Helping Children to Understand their own Behaviour Using Narratives.
Introduction to Attachment
Introduction to De-escalation
Introduction to Therapeutic Parenting
Managing Feelings for Parents - Overcoming Compassion Fatigue
Managing Feelings for Supporting Professionals - Recognising,
Understanding, and Managing Compassion Fatigue
Therapeutically Managing Violent Behaviour – In Children and Adolescents
Meeting Unmet Developmental Needs in Older Children
Safeguarding
Staying Sane as a Therapeutic Parent
Strategies to Manage Behaviour
Strategies to Manage Behaviour in Adolescents
Tentacles of Trauma
Therapeutic Parenting in Real Life
Through Our Eyes – The Male Perspective
Understanding and Managing Food Related Issues in Traumatised Children
Understanding and Responding to Grief, Loss and Bereavement in Children who have Experienced Early Life Trauma and Neglect
Understanding the Teenage Brain
Understanding Toxic Shame
Working with Children who can’t Engage.
Up to 40 attendees.
If above 40, please enquire.
If you would like to explore a virtual delivery option for any of the courses listed above, please contact us
All courses are certificated on completion.
Plus travel and accommodation if required
Training WebinarOnlyCourses
10 Vital Steps of Therapeutic Parenting - Workshop
Acing the ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences)
Always on the move - Managing high cortisol
An Anxious Child is not a Learning Child
Calming the Angry Child
Challenges for Parents who have Experienced Trauma
Dealing with Lying
Dealing with Meltdowns in Public
Helping Your Child to Manage Transitions
Honesty and Necessary Lies
Hungry Heart - Food Related Issues
Juggling Act - Managing Siblings
Lost and Lonely - Teens in Crisis
Lying and The Shame Game
Managing Birthdays and Celebrations
Managing Issues with Washing, Bathing, and Personal Care (Hygiene) - Workshop
Managing Sexualised Behaviour – Workshop
Managing the Early Days
Mess Everywhere - Disorganisation
Naming the Need
No-One Asked Me! - Managing visits (contact)
On the Look Out - Hypervigilance
Preparing for School - Working with schools (4 x 1 hour webinars)
Safe Internet Usage
Self-Harm
Separation Anxiety
Sleep Issues – Workshop
Strategies to Manage Behaviour – Dealing with Lying and Stealing
Supporting Families with Swearing
Supporting You to Support Your Families: Food Issues!
Surviving in a Couple Relationship as Therapeutic Parents!
Surviving the Holidays - Summer and Christmas
Teens and Social Media - Safe use of Social Media
Teenage Friendships and Absconding
The Real Child - Sabotage
The Trauma Room
Toilet Tales
Top Tips for Christmas
Truth, Lies, and the Memory Carousel
Understanding and Managing Triggers Therapeutically
What Lies Beneath - Internal Working Model
What’s Wrong with Me? - Diagnoses
Why Can't My Child Keep Friends?
Why Do Children Do the Things they Do?
Why I Wobble at Easter!
1 hour webinars
Delivered via Zoom
Includes 7-day recording
Assistance throughout Certificated
New webinars are added monthly!
TheSocialCareSector Hub
Trauma-InformedTrainingforSocial CareProfessionals
Understanding trauma is essential to effective social care practice. When professionals share a clear understanding of how trauma impacts behaviour and development, it supports:
More consistent and informed decision-making
Improved partnership working across services
More compassionate and effective responses to children and families
Practice that is firmly grounded in the best interests of the child
The webinars focus on practical, trauma-informed approaches that can be applied directly within social care practice They are designed to support reflective practice, consistency in approach, and improved partnership working across services.
Training is delivered mainly by our keynote speakers, Sarah Naish and Sarah Dillon, both best-selling authors with extensive professional expertise and lived experience in the field of trauma and attachment
Whats Included:
Trauma Informed Practice for Social Workers
Acing the Aces
Why do our children do the things they do?
Truth, Lies and the Memory Carousel.
Compassion fatigue (blocked care) in fostering
The Therapeutic Fostering Assessment-an overview of a new assessment tool
Meeting the unmet need-Interpreting behaviours expressed as a result of unmet need, and meeting those needs
Developmental Trauma, Causes signs and strategies
TRUE model-reducing and resolving compassion fatigue
Format
Recorded online webinars accessed via The Social Care Sector Hub
Available to view for 7 days from the time you begin watching
Flexible access for individuals and teams
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