Public Service Training

This training provides professionals with the knowledge and an understanding of the teenage brain and why teens take risks. Course content includes: 

• The teen brain and developmental changes
• Why teens take risks
• Positive risk-taking and its benefits
• Building positive relationships with teenagers
• How to encourage positive behaviour 
• Keeping teenagers safe

Parenting resources and engagement is very important. Professionals can support parents, carers and families in making sure a child develops healthily,   learns and enjoys everyday life. Course content includes:

Building strong, positive relationships with parents, families and communities

Equality, diversity and inclusion

This training provides professionals an understanding of what mental health and mental illness are and an understanding of what mental health problems commonly occur in children and teens. 

You will understand changes, challenges, and trauma in childhood and teenage years; building resilience; and what parents and carers can do to support children's mental health and wellbeing.