About Our Social Mission
To help as many parents and professionals of challenging children as possible to have timely access to high quality training and supportive coaching in the I Matter Framework in their own community that helps them understand and develop confidence in their own key role in their child’s healthy social emotional development.
THERE IS WIDESPREAD CONCERN ABOUT THE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF OUR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE.
THIS BLOG WAS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE I FIRST STARTED TO PONDER AND QUESTION HOW TO SHARE MY THINKING ABOUT THIS.
I HAD DEVELOPED A TRAINING CALLED ADULT-CHILD WELL-BEING 'I MATTER' TRAINING AND THEN I WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT NEXT.
NOW THE WAY FORWARD IS CLEARER AND THERE IS A STRUCTURE AND A TEAM AND A SUPPORTIVE NETWORK IN PLACE
THE GOAL OF THE I MATTER PROJECT IS TO PUT ADULT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT BACK ON THE MAP
THIS BLOG WAS ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE I FIRST STARTED TO PONDER AND QUESTION HOW TO SHARE MY THINKING ABOUT THIS.
I HAD DEVELOPED A TRAINING CALLED ADULT-CHILD WELL-BEING 'I MATTER' TRAINING AND THEN I WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT NEXT.
NOW THE WAY FORWARD IS CLEARER AND THERE IS A STRUCTURE AND A TEAM AND A SUPPORTIVE NETWORK IN PLACE
THE GOAL OF THE I MATTER PROJECT IS TO PUT ADULT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT BACK ON THE MAP
Our Objectives |
We aim to provide child mental health psycho-education and support for professionals and parents and complex children - that makes a difference to the number of healthy adult-child relationships and the amount of healthy empathy and care in the world
'The parent who is looking for help to support a child who is struggling with relationships and empathy, can access it in timely fashion in supportive partnership with their child's school and community'. 'Schools are delivering a developmentally sensitive national curriculum in partnership with parents that prioritises social emotional development and empathy and care development not just literacy and numeracy' To achieve this end, our aims are to: 1. Improve professional understanding of the key role of relationships and social-developmental in children's brain development 2. Support schools and services in developing the capacity to provide affordable impactful parent education and support that strengthens healthy relationships and empathic understanding of self and other 3. To build a community focussed approach that supports parents and carers in developing healthier happier relationships over the longer-term We aim to connect with people and help transform relationship confidence |
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Dr Cathy Betoin
The Why?
There is a widely acknowledged crisis in the mental health and wellbeing of our children and young people. The I Matter Project seeks to address this issue by tackling the confusion around theoretical models and the big gap in current provision for training in child development for professionals and parents, through providing up to date well-evidenced research findings in a format that supports adults in working more effectively together to deliver some back to basics of healthy care.
I Matter Training aims to join up the dots for professionals between well evidenced ideas to illustrate their implications for practice decisions. Though the well-evidenced ideas taught through I Matter courses are back to basics and quite straightforward, they can however be quite challenging to implement particularly in the first stages because of the structures that exist that separate health from education and adult mental health from child mental health. The framework is powerful but adults and young people need support in making sense of ideas over time and so we are committed to delivering practice models based in local communities that combines online learning with face to face workshops and local expertise encouraging parents and professionals to develop their expertise and understanding over time.
We are passionate and enthusiastic about taking these practical sometimes life changing ideas out to parents and professionals.
I Matter Training aims to join up the dots for professionals between well evidenced ideas to illustrate their implications for practice decisions. Though the well-evidenced ideas taught through I Matter courses are back to basics and quite straightforward, they can however be quite challenging to implement particularly in the first stages because of the structures that exist that separate health from education and adult mental health from child mental health. The framework is powerful but adults and young people need support in making sense of ideas over time and so we are committed to delivering practice models based in local communities that combines online learning with face to face workshops and local expertise encouraging parents and professionals to develop their expertise and understanding over time.
We are passionate and enthusiastic about taking these practical sometimes life changing ideas out to parents and professionals.
What sorts of challenges?
I Matter Ideas can be helpfully applied to a wide range of difficulties experienced by young people and families. We are currently working with partners on the following:
i) universal services early intervention - working with reception parents about home behaviour
ii) working with parents of children with challenging behaviour
iii) working with adopters on post adoption support
iv) working with parents of children on the autistic spectrum
v) working with professionals who want to take part in parent education and support.
i) universal services early intervention - working with reception parents about home behaviour
ii) working with parents of children with challenging behaviour
iii) working with adopters on post adoption support
iv) working with parents of children on the autistic spectrum
v) working with professionals who want to take part in parent education and support.