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Access to more than 600 resources

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Access eLearning courses

Hear personal experiences

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What’s new on CATCH?

Upcoming webinar:
Self-harm – An overview (part 2)
Building on the learning from part 1, this follow up webinar, hosted by Nerys Hughes (founder of Whole Child Therapy), moves from understanding self-harm in children and young people, to applying that knowledge in practice.

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New audio interview:
When families change – Navigating separation and divorce
An adopter shares his experience of navigating divorce shortly after adopting three young siblings.

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What can you find on CATCH?

We have over 600 resources on CATCH! All of our CATCH created content has been produced with the help of key experts in the field including clinical psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists and the experts by experience – adopters, foster carers and special guardians. Meet some of our experts.

Click on a topic below to see some of our key resources from each.

Additional needs

70+ resources including:

Webinar: An introduction to developmental delay
Webinar: Sensory processing
Webinar: Disability support
Webinar: Adapting your home for children with additional needs
Audio: Children with disabilities – Making informed choices during the matching process

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Adoption process

60+ resources including:

Webinar: Your questions answered – Adoption leave and pay Q&A
Webinars on the role of adoption medical advisor – Adult and Child’s health
Video: Going to panel – Eddie (Panel member and adopter)
Webinar: Preparing for adoption introductions
Webinar: Legal process of adoption orders

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Attachment

30+ resources including:

eLearning: Attachment and your children
Webinar: The power of stories – Using stories to build relationships, overcome trauma and learn new skills
Webinar: Blossom – Resilience, resources and relationships
Webinar: Understanding the impact of shame
Webinar: Nurturing connection and healing through Trust-Based Relational Intervention® (TBRI®)

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Challenging behaviours

20+ resources including:

Webinar: Managing severe emotions and behaviours
Webinar: Changing controlling and challenging behaviour – Lessons learnt from a parent turned practitioner
Webinar: Introduction to Non-Violent Resistance – A parental support approach
Webinar: Understanding child to parent violence
Webinar: Non-Violent Resistance (NVR) and the teenage years

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Children’s wellbeing

90+ resources including:

Webinar: Parenting anxious children
Webinar: Touching stories, massage and metaphor
Introduction to therapies series
Webinar: Exploring the idea of regressive behaviours from an attachment perspective
Two part webinar series on self-harm

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Contact

40+ resources including:

Webinar: We don’t ‘do contact’…we share a contact mindset
Webinar: Promoting meaningful direct contact
Webinar: Staying in touch – Plans for siblings in adoption
Webinar: Letterbox contact and communication in adoptive families
Personal experience interviews with adopters and foster carers

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Early days of parenthood

Resources include:

eLearning: Attachment and your children
Webinar: Early days of parenthood
Personal experience interviews with adopters
Webinar: Supporting children and young people experiencing separation anxiety
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Early permanence (EP)

Resources include:

Webinar: Early permanence – Dealing with uncertainties and delays
Webinar: Fostering for adoption
Video: From foster carer to adopter
Webinar: Early permanence – Family time
Personal experience interviews with adopters

Education

150+ resources including:

Webinars on choosing the right school
Webinar: Navigating Education, Health and Care plans (EHC plans)
Webinar: Helping your child with school transitions
Five-part podcast series: Introduction to Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
Education toolkits for parents and educators

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FASD

Resources include:

Webinar: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Webinar: FASD – Neurodevelopmental presentation, complications, and support strategies
Video: Parenting a child with FASD – Abigail and David (Adoptive parents)
Webinar: Living well as a family affected by FASD
Webinar: FASD – Realising student potential within educational settings

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Food issues

Resources include:

Webinar: Practical tips and strategies for mealtimes and eating
Webinar: Eating well and nurturing others
Webinar: Understanding eating disorders
Signposting for further support

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Fostering

30+ resources including:

eLearning: Foundations of foster care
Webinar: Preparing for your first foster placement
Webinar: Supporting children and young people in foster care with challenging behaviour
Personal experience interviews with foster carers
Webinar: Supporting the transition from foster care to adoption

Keeping children safe

90+ resources including:

Webinar: Internet safety
Webinar: Talking to your child about pornography
Webinar: Gangs and Organised Crime Groups
Webinar: County Lines and protecting children
Webinar: Radicalisation – Exploring extremist groups and how they groom young people

Kinship care

20+ resources including:

Webinar: Supporting children and young people as a special guardian/kinship carer
Webinar: Managing family contact for special guardians/kinship carers
Webinar: Children’s family time for special guardians
Six-part podcast series: Becoming a special guardian
Personal experience interviews with special guardians

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Life story

40+ resources including:

Webinar: Life story work in practice
Personal experience interviews with adopters, foster carers and special guardians
Webinar: Understanding grief and loss
Webinar: Sharing your child’s life story with them
Tips and advice on talking to children about their story

Neurodiversity

30+ resources including:

Webinar: Autism spectrum conditions in care experienced children
Webinar: Autism – Different for girls?
Webinar: Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA)
Webinar: An introduction to ADHD
Webinar: Dyslexia and the early years

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Self-care

Resources include:

Webinar: Care-giving fatigue – A compassionate response
Webinar: Looking after yourself as an adoptive parent
Webinar: Understanding secondary trauma
Webinar: Tapping into a calmer state – A practical introduction to emotional freedom technique (tapping)
Webinar: Introduction to breathwork for parents and children

Siblings

Resources include:

Webinar: Parenting siblings
Webinar: Sibling rivalry
Webinar: Staying in touch plans for siblings in adoption
Personal experience interviews with adopters and foster carers

Sleep

Resources include:

Webinar: Promoting better sleep for adopted children
Supporting resources on healthy sleep routines
Signposting for additional support

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Teenagers

20+ resources including:

Webinar: Thriving, not just surviving – Improving communication and connection with your teenager
Webinar: Relational Trauma – The importance of relationships in adolescence
Webinars: Understanding the teenage years (three-part series)
Webinar: The adolescent brain
Webinar: Peer relations, social media and belonging

Therapeutic parenting

20+ resources including:

eLearning: Putting PACE into practice
Webinar: Recognising and enabling play
Practical strategies for therapeutic parenting
Webinar: Helping children to regulate their emotions
Further reading recommendations

Toileting

Resources include:

Webinar: Supporting children with toilet training
Tips and advice for dealing with wetting and soiling
Signposting for further support

Trauma

90+ resources including:

Webinar: The in-utero experience and its impact on a child
Webinar: Understanding trauma in children – Identifying and supporting diverse presentations
Webinar: Understanding the impact of neglect
Webinar: Cortisol, stress and neurobiology
Webinar: Trauma bonds – Navigating healthy relationships

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Trauma-aware teaching

40+ resources including:

eLearning: Becoming a trauma-aware school – Strategies for supporting all learners
Webinar: Understanding children’s executive functioning skills in schools
Webinar: Using PACE in schools
Webinar: Working with traumatised children in the classroom
Education toolkits and information sheets

CATCH membership vs free offer


Pre-panel training (for adopters and foster carers)
Parenting support resources
eLearning
Podcast series
Certificates
Ability to bookmark content
Personal profile area
Personal experience interviews
Live webinars
Peer support (for adopters)