Adultification Awareness Raising Session
Target Audience: Multi-disciplinary and agency professionals in education, health, social care, youth services, therapeutic and clinical services
Course duration: Half day
This workshop explores the concept of ‘adultification’ and the wider historical, organisational, institutional professional, cultural and personal perspectives. The training explore the intersectionality of ‘race’, ethnicity ,gender, disability, and culture to understand the disproportionate experience of black children by professionals who minimise their vulnerability and safeguarding needs. This session uses case studies, small group discussions and serious case review findings to explore how adultification manifests in practice and how to intervene to improve professional curiosity, cultural competence and effective inter agency responses.
Learning Objectives:
- To increase awareness of the concept of ‘Adultification’
- To explore notions of vulnerability and childhood and how these are applied to some children disproportionally more than others.
- Understand the risks to Black children and young people and wider context of victimisation and adultification
- To examine the impact of adultification on mental health and well being
- Understand the broad concepts of intersectionality and Adultification which affects experiences and decision making
- Reflecting and learning from case studies / Children Safeguarding Practice Review (CSPRs
- Explore and recognise how Adultification manifests in practice and the impact on safeguarding Black children and young people
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