Journey with an Unaccompanied Child Training Series
Walking with Afran
Learn about the journeys made by thousands of unaccompanied children each year, and the far-reaching implications and impact that these journeys have, by booking your space now!
RYS offers three core trainings of different durations and levels of detail. This page covers our two-and-a-half hour session Walking with Afran. Learn more about our other training offers via the menu above.
Training: Walking with 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 two core trainings which cover similar content but with different durations and levels of detail. This page concerns our 2.5 hour session Walking with Afran. To learn more about our more in-depth capacity building training, Journey with an Unaccompanied Child, click the button below.
Walking with Afran
Course Information
DURATION
2.5 hours
PRICE
£45 per person
LOCATION
Online
FOR WHO?
Anyone who encounters asylum seeking children and young people in their job or volunteer role
DELIVERED BY
An RYS Social Worker with pan-European frontline experience
This live training session is focused on building the knowledge of individuals and organisations who are supporting unaccompanied children in the UK.
Over a single two-and-a-half-hour session participants develop an understanding of why children leave their homes alone or how they become separated, and gain insight into the common experiences of unaccompanied children, including the risks and challenges they face, and traumatic experiences they endure.
Participants leave with an understanding of what to do and what not to do, when meeting an unaccompanied child for the first time.
600+
Participants
1750+
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 Afran in his birth country and follow him as he becomes unaccompanied children and travel alone to Europe.
2
Build an understanding of what their life was like before he left, the factors that led him to leave, and what he experienced on his journey across the globe.
3
Uncover a number of interesting truths and common misconceptions about European and global migration.
4
Understand what to do, and what not to do, when meeting an unaccompanied child for the first time.
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Arrange a meeting to discuss an exclusive group booking for your team or organisation.
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Participant Reviews
"Fantastic - good practice guidelines, statistics and specifics regarding a young person's journey. Very applicable to my role as a secondary school teacher."
Sharon Davies - Secondary School Teacher
"Until you walk a tiny bit in someone's shoes, you cannot possibly understand."
Nikita Hamidy - School Administrator
"The training hit home that as a member of the media I need to choose my words carefully; to remember the reality of why people leave home and what they experience on their journey."
Clive Hammond - Journalist
'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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