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Resources Tailored to Your Role

Whether you have attended one of our courses or not, there are free resources waiting for you.

Course Delegates

Additional materials to support the course content you covered during your training.

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Registered Managers

Free resources designed for children's home managers. You don't need to have attended one of our courses to access these.

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Teachers and TAs

Free resources for school staff. You don't need to have attended one of our courses to access these.

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Foster Carers

Free resources to support your understanding of behaviour and trauma-informed care.

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Workshop Materials for Staff Meetings

Twelve ready-to-use workshop modules covering neuroscience, attachment theory, behaviour, and therapeutic parenting. Each module is designed to be delivered during a staff meeting, giving your team the knowledge they need to support the people in your care.

These materials are completely free for registered managers. You do not need to have attended one of our courses to access them.

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Understand how executive function skills develop and why they matter for behaviour regulation in children and young people.

Explore the serve-and-return interaction pattern and its role in building healthy brain architecture.

Learn how the arousal-relaxation cycle shapes attachment and what it means for the people you support.

Identify the four main attachment patterns and understand how they influence behaviour in care settings.

Discover Bruce Perry's neurosequential model and the six core strengths needed for healthy development.

An introduction to Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and how it explains our responses to safety and threat.

Deepen your understanding of the autonomic nervous system and practical applications in care settings.

A deeper dive into executive function, including working memory, cognitive flexibility, and inhibitory control.

Learn about the stress response system, toxic stress, and how to create environments that reduce stress for the people you support.

Reframe your understanding of behaviour as communication and explore what drives the behaviours you see.

Understand the principles of therapeutic parenting and how they apply in residential care settings.

The foundational module explaining why neuroscience knowledge transforms how we respond to behaviour.

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