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…
Think Victim is a victim empathy workbook designed for children and young people. his worksheet outlines a number one-to-one activities designed to get the young person to think in depth about an offence or anti-social behaviour they have committed, and to identify any victims. Click…
This Emotional Resilience Toolkit provides practical guidance in promoting the resilience of young people as part of an integrated health and wellbeing programme. The toolkit provides a decription of the 5 day programme as well as material for its delivery. The resource is designed to…
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…
This manual is for everyone who facilitates groups and is interested in understanding how to utilise games in a therapeutic way to meet the needs of a group. Content: 1. Group starters Name games ‘Getting to know you’ games Warm-up games 2. Group games Team…
Autism, My Sibling, and Me is a colorful workbook specifically designed to engage young children. A host of cartoon characters accompany children as they learn about what autism means for their brother or sister. The resource also aims to guide young siblings through any autism-related questions…
A great compilation of 40+ engaging worksheets facilitating children’s participation in an assessment of them. The worksheets help workers to ascertain children’s daily routine, likes, dislikes, feelings, wishes as well as their views on their family, friends, helpers, home, neighbourhood, school etc. The booklet also…
Calm Harm provides tasks that help you resist or manage the urge to self-harm and it’s completely private and password protected. What does it do? The four categories of tasks target the main reasons for why people self harm: Distract helps to combat the urge by…
The tool contains 24 pictures of various animals and suggestions how they can be used to get to know children and discuss their views and feelings in an interactive and fun way. Click here to view/download the tool as a pdf file Click here to view/download…
This beautifully illustrated guide describes various interactive techniques which social workers can use to engage children in a child protection process. The booklet not only provides various tips on activities which can be used but also contains a range of tools which professionals can print out. Contents: 1….
This tool supports social workers to gain an understanding of a child’s or young person’s daily routine in an engaging way. The document contains 40+ individual slips with various activities/feelings which a child is asked to sort out into three piles – every day, sometimes…
You may find this resource helpful if you are setting up a group to teach young people skills needed for aggression control. The resource outlines 8 group sessions which cover the following topics: Introduction to program Overview how anger works Identifying anger trigger & behavioural…