Promoting emotional well-being should be at the heart of all work with young people. The sessions in this toolkit aim to: • Build resilience in young people so that they are better equipped to deal with the challenges that come their way • Raise awareness…
The workbook enables workers to explain the meaning of various emotions/feelings and promotes a conversation with children about in which situations they experience the discussed emotion. Click here to view/download
This book is for women who have mild to moderate depression before or after having their baby, or if they are recovering from an episode of severe depression associated with pregnancy. It could also be useful if you are supporting someone with depression. This workbook…
Workers can use this poster to 1. Help children to more accurately express their feelings by developing their emotional vocabulary. 2. Help children learn to recognize the feelings of others by facial expressions. Click here to view/download
Helping Children to Cope with Change, Stress and Anxiety provides practical activities and strategies for children who are experiencing mild to moderate levels of stress, have difficulty coping with changes in their life or are prone to mild to moderate anxiety. Contents: Part One Being…
Children have to leave their homes for many reasons. Natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, can uproot hundreds of thousands of children in just a few days. Many other children become homeless in less dramatic ways. For financial or other family reasons, children may find themselves…
The Program is organised as a Teaching and Learning Kit, comprised of: Picture Video Book: Meet Mr Angry Ant! Teacher Program & Guide: with full teaching/learning program notes, background information, suggested activity sequence, Activity Cards and handouts, and other Print Masters The “Meet Mr Angry…
‘Spiralling’ is an education toolkit and film for use as a resource to help prevent domestic abuse in the next generation, by carrying out activities with and for children and young people of all ages. It includes a short film about a young couple’s abusive…
This workbook has been created as a psychotherapeutic tool for therapists to use in working with children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with a medical illness but can be utilised by any practitioners trying to establish children’s/young people’s views, wishes and feelings. The activities…
This video is just over 29 minutes long and will give parents/carers a good understanding of some of the key issues around child sexual abuse: what it is, why it happens and how it can be prevented. This child sexual abuse awareness video enables them…
While originally intended for use in classes/groups, the resources (activities, worksheets, songs, videos and others) can be also used during 1:1 work with children. The lessons plans are divided into five Stay Safe Topics: • Feeling Safe and Unsafe • Friendship and Bullying • Touches…
Busy Bodies Adolescent Development Programme provides information on the physical and emotional changes that children may experience during puberty, to reassure them that puberty is a normal part of growing up. Busy Bodies is a useful resource to help support both workers and parents in providing…
Strengthening Family Ties: A Workbook of Activities Designed to Strengthen Family Relationships contains fun activities related to five areas of family functioning which are: Building Trust, Family Support, Kindness, Communication, and Working Together. It is recommended that activities in the first section, Building Trust, be…
The Bouncing Back! learning pack is a collection of creative learning activities for use with family members to develop skills, knowledge and awareness for drug and alcohol prevention. The pack has been designed for use with small, diverse family groups including parents, carers, young people…
This resource pack can be used with young people at risk of sexual exploitation. The aim is to enable young people to consider the issues and risks around child sexual exploitation identify risky situations and learn to build appropriate strategies to increase their safety. Contents:…
The guide below outlines a 6 session Feelings Programme. It details activities which can be completed with a child or young person who has lived with domestic abuse which may have impaired their ability to understand emotional situations and respond appropriately. They may not be…
The questionnaire can be used by professionals working with young people aged between 13 and 18 as a way of opening up discussions about safety in a non-accusatory manner. The idea behind this tool is that it gives young people information about risky situations, whilst…
This workbook is for children where a family member has a mental illness. Click here to view/download THE WORKBOOK IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS: SECTION ONE contains a general discussion about the concept of mental illness for children who may never have discussed this topic. SECTION TWO…
SenseAbility is a strengths-based resilience program designed for those working with young children aged 12-18 years. It consists of a suite of modules developed to enhance and maintain emotional and psychological resilience. It was created with classroom delivery in mind, but the modules can easily…
The Kids Central Toolkit aims to provide workers and services with information, resources and tools to use child-centred approaches in their work with children, young people and families. The Toolkit is based around six key principles that support child-centred practice, and each principle includes a…
Guides Making History: A Social Worker’s Guide to Life Books An excellent guide for social workers on how to create a life strory book. Click here to view LifeStoryWorks.org LifeStoryWorks.org website provides a very helpful guide on how to create a life story book from scratch. Click…
101 Healing Stories for Kids and Teens is a straightforward guide on using storytelling and metaphors in a variety of therapeutic settings. Ideal for all who work with young people, this unique resource can be combined with other inventive and evidence–based techniques such as play,…
The aim of the awareness program is to teach children 6 age-appropriate rules to remember if they are ever confronted with an unsafe situation. The rules are: Safe touch and unsafe touch Hitting is wrong Doesn’t matter who it is Stranger safety/Smart choices Shout, Run, Tell/Tell them…
The Teen Relationship Workbook is for professionals working with young people to prevent or end relationship abuse. The workbook can be used in individual sessions, educational settings andpsych-educational or support groups. Although the workbook is certainly appropriate as a means of general education on relationship issues,…
This book contains a range of worksheets which are designed to teach social skills to many different types of children, particularly those with social problems. Often labeled as having a social skills deficit, these children may be considered aggressive, socially isolated, or shy. The underlying concept is…
This 186-page workbook is a fantastic resource containing many exercises and activities designed to help teens think about the patterns of their anxiety and the circumstances around it. This is followed by a lot of practical advice on how to change their habits and boost…
The booklet contains various activities, worksheets and templates assisting social workers and early help workers to involve children in the process of assessments, intervention planning as well as conducting reviews in a positive, supportive and enabling way. Click here to view/download Chapter 1 – Contents, acknowledgements…
Storyberries offers both classic and contemporary stories in an easy-to-read online format with vibrant illustrations designed to excite children and engage them around reading. It also offers discussion guides designed to encourage caregivers and children the opportunity to explore real-life issues together. You can choose…
Relax like a cat is a colourful booklet for younger children to practice controlled breathing and muscle relaxation. Long, deep controlled breaths slow down the breathing rate and help children to relax. Muscle relaxation involves practicing tensing and relaxing different muscles in the body. This…
Feeling is Thinking is an eight-week group work program that focuses on working with children who experience difficulties in their interpersonal relationships, and in expressing their strong feelings, in particular anger, sadness and frustration. The 82-pages pack, however, contains a lot of material which can…