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THE POWER TO RADIATE
Foster carers and supervising social workers.
PACE
TRAINING
A specialist in what I do, I initially trained as a Registered Mental Health Nurse and subsequently throughout my 24 year career trained in Attachment Therapy, PACE model (Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy), Narrative Story Stem Assessing, Solution Focused Therapy, Family Therapy, Systemic and Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic approaches and specifically working therapeutically with trauma and abuse.
Within this career I provided complex mental health assessment and therapeutic intervention for children and young people in foster care, leaving care and those transitioning to adoptive care.
I have also managed the Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) 0-19 service as well as the CAMH Looked after Children service in Plymouth.
Trained in the P.A.C.E model of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, I now train foster carers and supervising social workers to incorporate this model, attitude and way of being in interacting & communicating with children and young people in foster care and responding to their complex emotional needs.
Two day training overview
•What is meant by P.A.C.E and this model of engaging with children and young people.
•What P.A.C.E is not.
•The use of P.A.C.E with discipline.
•Building relationships using P.A.C.E.
•Providing structure and supervision with traumatised children using P.A.C.E as a responsive model.
•Managing confrontation and coercive interaction.
•Managing behaviour using P.A.C.E as a model.
•How do you look after yourselves in this process.
Odette
(2022)The way Helen went through the course content step by step and how to apply PACE to your life was brilliant.
I went in thinking it was just a tool in the challenging times but have definitely come away with it being so much more.
Adam
(2022)This course is amazing!
Helen is excellent at presenting the content in such a calm, informative, empathetic way.
Tina
(2022)This is the best training that I have ever been on.
I enjoy learning and have read quite a bit about therapeutic parenting and attachment and PACE but the way it was delivered and the knowledge that Helen has made this a particularly enjoyable and thought provoking course,
Pamela Daze
Plymouth Local Authority Foster Carer. November 2019“I have just finished a two day course with Helen on pace.
I have done this course with other trainers at least 4 times in my 12 years of fostering. I thought I understood it but struggled to apply it in its entirety to my everyday life.
2 days with Helen and I (and my colleagues who also attended the course) now fully understand exactly what pace is and how to live it with our children.
I feel empowered, confident and excited. Looking forward to more of her training.”
Polly
(2021)This course is absolutely fabulous.
I loved it and found it the most useful and helpful in my Foster carer role. I’d like all foster carers to access this course
Anon
(2022)This course is invaluable.
There is so much I want to take away from this training and apply in the relationships I have or will have with the children I look after.
Michelle
(2022)I feel uplifted after having this training.
It’s really going to help us through life thank you.
Hayley Johns
Fostering Reviewing & Training Officer“The training was very successful…
it was well received and a great addition to the training package Plymouth offer their foster carers.”
Learning objectives
•Explore what P.A.C.E actually is.
•Explore how foster carers and supervising social workers can integrate P.A.C.E into
their work.
•Understand how foster carers and supervising social workers can respond to and support children and young people using the PACE model.
•Discuss the difficulties in integrating the model into their fostering work and seek an autonomous process by which they can manage these individual difficulties effectively.
•Understand the impact of Blocked Care on providing PACE within the relationship, and the difficulties in parenting children and young people who show resistance.
•Develop P.A.C.E skills and tools in professional, personal and emotional development within the fostering context.
Commissioning and pricing
The training is commissioned by local authorities and private fostering agencies.
I am a trusted P.A.C.E training provider for Plymouth Children and Families Services.
Pricing of the 2 day course is available on request.
