Journey with an Unaccompanied Child Training SeriesStanding with Joey, Ali and Afran
Learn about the journeys made by thousands of unaccompanied children each year, and the far-reaching implications and impact that these journeys have. Receive practical guidance on how to provide the best possible care and welcome to children who have arrived alone to the UK by booking your space now!
RYS offers three core trainings of different durations and levels of detail. This page covers our 5-hour Standing with Joey, Ali and Afran training. Learn more about our other training offers via the menu above.
Training: Journey with an Unaccompanied Child
Learn about the journeys made by thousands of unaccompanied children each year, and the far-reaching implications and impact that these journeys have. Receive practical guidance on how to provide the best possible care and welcome to children who have arrived alone to the UK by booking your space now!
RYS offers two core trainings which cover similar content but with different durations and levels of detail. This page concerns our 5 hour capacity-building training course Journey with an Unaccompanied Child. To learn more about our shorter training session, Walking with Afran, click the button below.
Standing with Joey, Ali and Afran
Course Information
DURATION
5 hours
PRICE
£90 per person
LOCATION
Online
FOR WHO?
Teachers, Social Workers, Youth Workers, Foster Carers, Social Work Students, Accommodation Providers, Humanitarian and Charity Workers
CO-DELIVERED BY
A young person with lived experience and a Social Worker with pan-European frontline experience
This capacity-building training is for anyone who supports, makes decisions about, or encounters unaccompanied children through their job or volunteer role. The course is particularly well suited to those who play a significant role in supporting unaccompanied children.
Participants receive practice guidance for supporting unaccompanied children, as well as an overview of the relevant asylum and social care processes, and the age assessment procedures that children are likely to experience.
The training is suitable for all experience levels. For experienced practitioners the training deepens knowledge and creates time to reconnect with children’s realities. In particular, organisations or teams looking to level-up their capacity for supporting unaccompanied children will benefit greatly.
500+
Participants
1500+
Children indirectly impacted
1337+
Hours of training received
97%
Found the training 'very good' or 'excellent' *
*of those surveyed
across all RYS trainings
Course Details
1
Meet Ali, Joey, and Afran in their birth countries and follow them as they become unaccompanied children and travel alone to Europe.
2
Build an understanding of what their life was like before they left, the factors that led them to leave, and what they experienced on their journeys across the globe.
3
Learn how the experiences of children on the move may impact their behaviours once they are in the UK.
4
Receive tools for direct practice and decision making. Leave with increased confidence for working with unaccompanied children in the UK.
Participant Reviews
"When you understand the journey, you understand the behaviour. I now feel better equipped to support my foster children"
Jenny Sampson - Foster Carer
"Very useful to consolidate our knowledge as a team, and to challenge and continue to challenge our practice, perceptions and knowledge around the lived experience of young people."
Sanna Ramen - Social Worker
"Very knowledgeable trainers, they really put you in the mind of the child and make you think more deeply about their experiences and how these might affect them."
Markus Gerald - Social Worker
'Walking With Afran'
DURATION
2 hours
LOCATION
Different cities in the UK
FOR WHO?
Individuals / groups
This awareness-raising event is held monthly in different cities across the UK. Over two hours the participants witness Afran’s journey, and learn what it is like to be an unaccompanied child on the move. Participants also uncover a number of interesting truths and common misconceptions about migration.
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