At the eight Hope and Healing by Design workshops (April to May 2017) held to inform the development of professional development strategies to support implementation of the Hope and Healing framework, residential care staff gave feedback that ‘purposeful programming’ was a high priority learning need.
The Purposeful programming in residential care workshop will cover:
- Core concepts that guide quality therapeutic residential services
- The purpose of therapeutic residential care
- Creating a therapeutic milieu
- Programming for successful outcomes—designing routines, structures and activities to provide therapeutic care
- Assessing individual needs and programming to achieve individual outcomes
- Balancing individual and group needs
Who is Martha J. Holden?
Martha is a Senior Extension Associate, Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research; Principal Investigator & Director–Residential Child Care Project, Cornell University, USA. Ms Holden has authored Children and Residential Experiences (CARE): Creating Conditions for Change, a best practice model for residential child caring organisations. As lead developer of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention System (TCI), used in children’s residential organisations since 1980. Ms Holden provides technical assistance to agencies to implement CARE and TCI System to schools, residential child caring agencies, juvenile justice programs and child welfare organisations throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and Israel. Ms Holden has been studying how to improve the quality of care for children in out of home placements and prevent the occurrence of institutional abuse through training, technical assistances, and influencing organisational culture throughout her career.
Workshops are being held in Brisbane, Townsville and RockhamptonClick HERE to access and distribute a print-friendly flyer
A small fee of $35 per participant will be charged as a contribution towards meeting catering costs – payment to be made upon registration being confirmed
PeakCare will reserve the right to place a cap on the number of registrations that are accepted from individual organisations to ensure that a wide cross-section of organisations can be represented at each workshop