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SUMMARY:'All Inclusive?' - Supporting Families
DESCRIPTION:Supporting Families – understanding and supporting\, practically and pastorally\, families of children and young people with additional needs \nThis seminar looks at:  \nUnderstanding the terminology regarding additional/special needs\, disability etc. \nNavigating the diagnosis; what is the journey that many families are on? \nTransitions\, milestones\, rites of passage; what are some of the key ‘trigger’ points for families? \nDads\, siblings\, challenges during lockdown and more… \nWhat appropriate practical and pastoral support can be offered to families? \nFurther information\, resources and support to explore. \nThe seminar provides you with everything you need to better understand some of the challenges families of children and young people with additional/special needs encounter\, what that experience can be like for them\, and how to offer and provide appropriate and informed support. \nThe ‘All Inclusive?’ – Supporting Families training programme includes: \n– A comprehensive colour A4 training workbook with a wealth of information and resources sent to each participant in advance. \n– Access to a series of videos to explore and learn through\, covering a range of topics related to supporting families of children and young people with additional needs. \n– Finally\, a Zoom session including discussion groups\, case studies\, Q&A\, and signposting to further resources to investigate\, as we wrap this programme up together. \n“This morning\, I attended another AMAZING Zoom training session on ‘All Inclusive?’ – Supporting Families – by Mark Arnold (Additional Needs Ministry Director at Urban Saints). It was SO GOOD to meet virtually with other professionals passionate about making their work/ministry INCLUSIVE and ACCESSIBLE to all. It was CRUCIAL to take the time out to reflect on what we do at EDGE and think about how we include everybody. HIGHLY recommended training!”  \n“This morning’s training was OFF THE CHARTS!! I recommend this training to EVERYBODY!”
URL:https://additionalneedsalliance.org.uk/event/all-inclusive-supporting-families-3/
LOCATION:‘All Inclusive?’ Online
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SUMMARY:'All Inclusive?' How to Include Autistic Children and Young People in Church
DESCRIPTION:‘All Inclusive?’ – How to Include Autistic Children and Young People in Church – accessibility\, inclusion\, belonging\, and spiritual development for all. An Urban Saints event. Includes a full-colour A4 workbook\, a copy of the accompanying Grove Youth series book\, access to video learning\, and an interactive online group training session. \nWithout considered and intentional measures\, many aspects of church life can pose challenges for Autistic children and young people. \nThis practical training provides useful advice on how to make church a space where Autistic children and young people can thrive. It urges children’s\, youth and families workers to be agents of change within both their own ministries and the wider church community\, building a better place for accessibility\, inclusion\, belonging and spiritual development for all. \nAreas covered include:\n– What Autism is (and isn’t!)\, medical model vs. social model\, brain overloads\, myth busting etc.\n– Barriers experienced by Autistic children and young people in church\, including physical\, programme and people barriers.\n– Reducing or removing these barriers\, and who can help.\n– How these changes can create belonging for everyone\, including stories from Autistic young people\, their families\, and church children’s/youth workers. 10 ways to create belonging.\n– Further resources\, links\, and information\nThe ‘All Inclusive?’ – How to Include Autistic Children and Young People in Church training programme includes:\n– A comprehensive colour A4 training workbook with a wealth of information and resources sent to each participant in advance.\n– A copy of the accompanying Grove Youth series book which provides further context and depth to the training content.\n– Access to a series of videos to explore and learn through\, covering a range of associated topics.\n– Finally\, a Zoom session including discussion groups\, case studies\, Q&A\, and signposting to further resources to investigate\, as we wrap this programme up together.\n– Participants completing at least three of the Urban Saints ‘All Inclusive?’ training programmes will receive a certificate. \n“Thank you Mark for this and for the excellent session on Saturday – This is all very new to me – it was really helpful and I will be processing everything!” \n“Thank you so much for the training yesterday\, despite having a lot of experience as a teacher and a parent and godparent to several children with sen and additional needs I always find your training helpful.” \n“Fab morning spent doing the ‘All Inclusive? – How to Include Autistic Children and Young People in Church’ training. Really enjoyed it Mark Arnold!” \n“It was fantastic as always. Got some more great actions points to put into place. Thank you .”
URL:https://additionalneedsalliance.org.uk/event/all-inclusive-how-to-include-autistic-children-and-young-people-in-church-3/
LOCATION:‘All Inclusive?’ Online
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SUMMARY:'All Inclusive?' - Invited to Belong:2U
DESCRIPTION:Tickets are £10.00 each for the training and two supporting workbooks\, or £25.00 for the training\, workbooks\, and the ‘Invited to Belong’ resource pack (recommended).\nWe launched our new Urban Saints ‘Invited to Belong:2U’ training resource at the National Youth Ministry Weekend 2022\, providing valuable content to add to the ‘Invited to Belong’ resource that we launched at NYMW 2021. \nI can now offer ‘open’ online training sessions for this course\, which you can book places on via the Eventbrite link at the top and bottom of this post. \n‘Invited to Belong’ is a six-stage practical and interactive learning process for leaders and teams who support young people and children with additional needs in Christian settings.\nWe open the box together to be inspired\, challenged\, and equipped to invite young people with additional needs to experience a deeper and more genuine sense of belonging within the ministries they are a part of. \nWe explore ‘inspiration to belong’\, ‘stories of belonging’\, ‘barriers to belonging’\, ‘enabling belonging’\, a vision for belonging’ and ‘invited to belong’. \nLet’s work together to enable our children’s\, youth\, and families ministries to be accessible\, inclusive\, and a place of belonging for all. \nEveryone registering will receive two hard copy full-colour A4 training and resource workbooks (we’ll post these straight to you)\, along with links to a playlist of helpful and informative videos to watch. If you order a ticket with a copy of the ‘Included to Belong’ resource itself\, we’ll send that too (recommend one resource ticket per team/group\, plus as many training tickets as you need). \nThen we’ll have a Zoom session gathering everyone together (max. 25) where we can get some more training input\, discuss everything\, look at some case studies\, have some Q&A\, and signpost towards further resources! \nA recent comment about ‘Invited to Belong’ sent to us from a youth leader shows the impact it is having…\n“I just wanted to let you know how useful we’re finding the ‘Invited to Belong’ resource. We used some of it at our youth group team meeting this week\, along with some of our young leaders\, and it produced some really helpful conversation. We’ve come up with a good list of ways we can make our group better and more inclusive! We will continue to use it at future meetings. The individual fact sheets are a great source of information. Thanks for all the resources you put together. They are really invaluable.” Thrive\, Leeds \nFor more information about the ‘Invited to Belong’ resource\, visit http://www.urbansaints.org/invitedtobelong \nAs always\, it’s limited to the first 25 people (you can order multiple tickets up to a limit of five) so we’ll be closing bookings once the course is full. \n“Just wanted to say a big thank you for all your hard work in helping me feel 100% more equipped than I did before in leading our children and young people\, and reaching out to other families in our community with additional needs and/or disabilities.”\n“All the videos\, the handbook\, the organisation\, the breakout space to share ideas was really\, really appreciated and makes all the difference when a workshop is so well thought through and organised.” \nLooking forward to ‘seeing’ you there!
URL:https://additionalneedsalliance.org.uk/event/all-inclusive-invited-to-belong2u-2/
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