Webinar: vicarious trauma and staff well-being in children’s residential settings

This webinar is for anyone who works with children in residential care who may have experienced trauma, including:

• people who develop children's residential services
• children’s residential managers
• children's residential workers
• people who support children and young people in residential setting
• people who support the workforce in children’s residential setting.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• how trauma can affect children and young people
• how to talk to children and young people about their experiences
• how working in high-stress and emotionally-charged environments can affect practitioners and their well-being
• how to recognise the signs of stress, burnout, and vicarious trauma in yourself and other people
• what resilience is
• why it’s important to practise self-care
• how to create a personalised self-care toolbox.

Nici Evans, Practice Improvement Advisor in Wales
Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse

Nici’s passionate about finding better ways of working together to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children, adults and families and responses for people affected by child sexual abuse.

Nici’s background is in nursing, palliative care, and teaching. Throughout her career, she’s had strong links to nursing, health, social care and police professionals. She’s supported women working in the sex industry, and victims of human trafficking and slavery.

Nici’s professional areas of special interest include communication and interpersonal skills training, trauma, and working with victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.

A qualified psychotherapist, Nici works with children and young people one day a week at a Cardiff high school. Nici also gives psychological support and runs reflective practice sessions for health professionals working in the NHS.

To find out more about this webinar, email: residentialchildcare@socialcare.wales