Creating new futures

We recognise the complex challenges of working with traumatised, hard to reach and marginalised children and young people. We provide a wide range of services to enable organisations to meet their needs.

Virtual Delivery via Zoom

We have developed new services and adjusted current provision so it can all be delivered virtually.

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Training and Courses

Orb8 provides a wide range of training days on subjects relevant to the care, support and understanding of traumatised children and young people.

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Working with you

Through working with organisations, senior teams, staff and carers we intend to develop trauma informed expertise and excellence in service delivery to hard to reach, traumatised and marginalised children, young people and young adults.

How we work

We focus on trauma informed organisational and service development. We work directly with you to understand the needs of the organisation, staff and service users. We provide support and interventions throughout the organisation to all you to best meet the needs of the children and young people you work with.

An experienced team

All our services are provided by a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified and experienced professional consultants, trainers and lecturers with a range of backgrounds including psychotherapy, psychology, social work, education, health and research.

Services

Interventions include whole system provision of training, service development and reflective practice. Our work is therapeutically informed by latest neurodevelopmental theory and uses our own unique model of understanding and practice.

Our services

Virtual Delivery via Zoom

A range of a short courses, training half days, management, staff and carer support, consultation and supervision all delivered on Zoom

Education and training

We provide a wide range of day and half-day training to longer courses in respect of therapeutic working with traumatised children

Service and Staff Development

Consultation, change management and service development to enhance organisational and staff and carer practice.

Therapeutic Mental Health and Well Being

Working with you to develop therapeutic services, including therapeutic staff and carer practice.

Reflective Practice Groups

A range of facilitated reflective groups from clinical case discussion to open reflective spaces.

Evaluation and Research

Evaluation and Research in respect of services and service user groups in the area of hard to reach and marginalised children, young people and young adults.

Tailored for you

We can work with you to create bespoke services to meet your specific needs and those of the young people you work with.

2020 – The year of living dangerously

At risk of joining what will be a slew of summaries of 2020 titled ‘it’s been a funny old year’ I felt that I could not ignore the realities of this time in my final Newsletter piece of the year.