KCA training can cater for:

• Conference style events (up to 200 participants)
  If a large venue is available training costs can be reduced by inviting others to participate, sharing the learning and sharing the cost
• Whole staff group training
  Training staff from across an organisation promotes consistency of purpose and integrated practice development
• Breakfast/twilight/evening sessions
  Bite-size sessions engage hard-to-reach learners by providing relevant and inspiring training at a time and a venue appropriate to their needs
• Training events/case clinics for the network around a child
  Develop a shared understanding and shared language around the needs of a child or young person by engaging the network, including family members if appropriate

Of the 222 different courses delivered in the last year, the most frequent were:

• 1. Full day Emotion Coaching: Using emotional co-regulation and guidance to enable children and young people to develop prosocial behaviour

  School staff · College staff · Early Years practitioners · Foster carers · Adoptive parents · Residential workers · Social workers This course enables learners to understand how adult responses to the behaviour of children and young people have an impact on the brain development of the child, to recognise different styles of response, and to use the practical approach of Emotion Coaching to address behaviour in the moment in a way that promotes positive brain development and pro-social behaviour.

• 2. Full day Brain Development and Positive Parenting: Five to Thrive as a model for promoting secure attachment

  Early Years practitioners · Early Years managers · Health Visitors Helping parents and carers to understand the impact they have on the developing brain of their children can develop responsiveness and confidence. This understanding truly promotes positive parenting. This course will enable anyone who works with families to integrate this understanding into practice so that they can explain and consistently model the activities that build and maintain healthy brains.

• 3. Full day Understanding Trauma: Promoting recovery from toxic stress

  School staff · School leaders · Early Years practitioners · Early Years managers · College staff · College leaders · Social workers · Foster carers · Youth Justice workers Toxic levels of stress can injure our brains, changing the way we think, feel and behave until we have recovered from the injuries. This can happen to anyone. This course enables learners to understand key issues in working with the significant minority of children and young people who are living with brain injuries from which they have not yet recovered. It also provides opportunities to practise and develop skills in working effectively with trauma.

• 4. Half day leadership seminar: Secondary Trauma and Community Resilience

  Children's workforce · Designated Teachers · Foster carers · School staff · Social workers · Residential staff Trauma is catching! Anyone who works with traumatised children and young people may find at some point in their career that they are affected by secondary trauma. Through empathy the adult tunes in to the toxic stress that is the child's everyday experience, and from time to time this can be overwhelming. This seminar enables participants to understand key issues, and to practice and develop skills in preventing and dealing with secondary trauma. The KCA Level 4 e-learning course 'Secondary Trauma and Community Resilience' is provided free for all participants. This e-learning provides the knowledge base from one unit of the two-unit Level 4 Customised Award 'Working with Vulnerable Children and Families'.

• 5. Full day Attachment and Emotion Coaching: Using emotional co-regulation and guidance to enable children and young people to develop prosocial behaviour

  School staff · College staff · Early Years practitioners · Foster carers · Adoptive parents · Residential workers · Social workers This course enables learners to understand how adult responses to the behaviour of children and young people have an impact on the brain development of the child, to recognise different styles of response, and to use the practical approach of Emotion Coaching to address behaviour in the moment in a way that promotes positive brain development and pro-social behaviour.