Posted March 6th, 2020
Gain a greater understanding of what is meant by therapeutic foster care, explore why we need therapeutic foster care, share practitioners’ experiences and gain best practice ideas and skills to implement in your own work/organisation.
Posted February 5th, 2020
Orb8 is delighted to announce the following two new courses: "Trauma Informed Practice - Mental Health & Wellbeing for Unaccompanied Minors" and "Trauma Informed Practice - Mental Health & Wellbeing" Please do get in touch for more information on admin@orb8.org
Posted May 20th, 2019
Dr Jane Herd will be presenting on Orb8's Best Practice Forum at the House of Lords on 21st June 2019
Posted May 20th, 2019
Dr Jane Herd's thoughts on What we know as practitioners discusses her invitation to present a best practice forum on Orb8's Provision of Therapeutic Foster Care Training for the Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma (IRCT) on 21st June 2019 at the House of Lords.
Posted March 25th, 2019
Read Dr Jane Herd’s contribution on Relationship-based Leadership for the PSW Network Publication for World Social Work Day
Posted March 11th, 2019
Sally Dickens, Speech and Language Therapist, draws attention to communication difficulties in looked after children.
Posted February 4th, 2019
Dr Jane Herd's article on Orb8's Model of Therapeutic Caring from the International Centre for Therapeutic Care's Journal.
Posted November 29th, 2018
This month PSW the leading magazine for UK social workers focuses on a Reflective Practice Group Project set up by Dr Jane Herd when she was Director of CfSWP
Posted July 18th, 2018
Dr Jane Herd has written and delivered out first training on self-harm and suicidality aimed at residential and foster care settings.
A range of a short course, management, staff and carer support during this current pandemic
We provide a wide range of day and half-day training to longer courses in respect of therapeutic working with traumatised children
Consultation, change management and service development to enhance organisational and staff and carer practice.
Working with you to develop therapeutic services, including therapeutic staff and carer practice.
A range of facilitated reflective groups from clinical case discussion to open reflective spaces.
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.
We can work with you to create bespoke services to meet your specific needs and those of the young people you work with.
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