Additional/Special Needs Resource Week – GUILDFORD

A week-long event of resources, hosted by the Diocese of Guildford, to help churches welcome and support children and youth with special/additional needs and their families into their church.

Ideas, advice, resources, information on diagnoses, equipment, strategies for behaviour, adapting your children/youth sessions, supporting families , mental health issues, sensory impairment (vision and hearing), sensory toys, website links, accessible church ideas.

Plus Mark Arnold (from Urban Saints) will be with us on Thursday 10th and will be available to answer questions and have discussions with before running his ‘All Inclusive?’ workshop for us in the evening. (see additional flyer)

The Resource Week and the ‘All Inclusive?’ workshop are free, but please let us know you are planning to attend the workshop by emailing either:
Steff.shepherd@cofeguildford.org.uk Kate.darwent@cofeguildford.org.uk

Thank you

All Inclusive? workshop:
Church House Guildford
10th May 2018 (7.30pm (7.15 for coffee and registration))
• Explore some of the statistics and explode some of the myths surrounding working with kids with special needs.
• Look at some of the key strategies that you can use to make what you offer more inclusive.
• Identify some of the amazing benefits that inclusion can bring to your whole church.
• Further resources that you can use as you work though this with your teams in your church.