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Welcome to CLB Highland

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Morning all, and a very warm welcome to our new website. As a group of professionals, we realised that collectively we share a lot of information and resources about change and loss with our colleagues, with families and with Children and Young People. However, we also realised that we didn’t have one place that everyone could go to access all of this.
As a result, we have been working on this website, that anyone can access, to find out about the support available in Highland when experiencing Change, Loss or Bereavement.
The website is still under construction, and will continue to be added to over the coming months. We hope to be able to share relevant resources, signpost to support available, point you in the direction of useful websites and also for families, children & young people and practitioners to share with us what has worked for them and why.
This blog will be used to share reviews of books, of support we have accessed, theory, training and anything else relevant to the Highland Community in terms of Change and Loss.
Thank you for joining us on the journey, and for your patience while we develop the site. Sign up to the blog to receive regular updates as we progress.

April is the Month of the Military Child – a time to celebrate together

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Highland has many Children and Young People from Armed Forces Families: Army, RAF, Navy and Marines from Regular, Reserve and Veteran families.

We hope you will join the many Schools and Early Learning Centres across Highland, nationally and internationally by raising awareness and understanding of being a Child or Young Person from an Armed Forces family;  their lived experiences, challenges they may have faced and overcome, the numerous countries they may have lived in, the cultures they may have experienced.

The Month of the Military Child uses the Dandelion as its logo: their seeds are blown and scattered but they land, take root, blossom, and thrive.

Celebrate their Unique Life and Journey

Click Here to access lots of Month of the Military Child resources and materials

Visit and explore Armed Forces Families Highland website – packed full of information for everyone.

Neurodiversity Celebration Week 18th – 24th March 2024

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Neurodiversity refers to the different ways the brain can work and interpret information, people naturally think about things differently but for some people this difference can be attributed to a neurodevelopmental difference such as autism, ADHD, Tourette’s, Developmental Language Disorder and others. Neurodiversity Celebration Week is a worldwide initiative that challenges stereotypes and misconceptions about neurological differences. It aims to transform how neurodivergent individuals are perceived and supported and recognises the many talents and advantages of being neurodivergent.

A child or young person with neurodevelopmental differences is likely to find change, loss and bereavement especially challenging because of their differences in processing information. This could be a big change such as the death of a relative or a much smaller change such as leaving school to return home at the end of the day.

For more information see the Pines website (the Pines is the neurodevelopmental service in Highland), this includes several videos: https://www.thepineshighland.com/dealing-with-change

World Book Day

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Today, Thursday March the 7th, is World Book Day. It encourages us to celebrate reading and reminds us how essential reading is to the young minds of the future.

Books provide children and young people with a sense of escapism from reality or difficult circumstances and allow them to discover stories on their own terms in a language they understand. In an era of technology books have an important role to play and the CLB team has a great book list of books to support change, loss and bereavement. Please take the time to visit our booklist page, find out more about some of our recommended books and take the time to read a couple. The list has a wide range of books associated with change and loss. These are just some of the great resources out there. We try to add new ones as we discover them, and we recommend having them in the home/borrowing them from the library/keeping some in your classroom to normalise change and loss for our children and young people.

CLB Training Dates

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We are running our Change, Loss & Bereavement Awareness Raising sessions again next term. If you have a look at our Training Pathway we recommend this (and some other resources and training) as a good foundation to exploring how to support Children and Young People who are experiencing change and loss. You can click on the links within the flyer to take you to the booking pages which will give you more information about the content and who it is suitable for.
Please also see our new poster for professionals working with C&YP experiencing change and loss. This gives an overview of what you can find right here on the CLB website.

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024

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Children’s Mental Health Week 2024 will take place from 5th to 11th February 2024. This year’s theme is ‘My Voice Matters’.  There is a link to a very brief video to explain a little more around what this means:

More information can be found on the Children’s Mental Health Week website, which is:

https://www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk

Why not have a look at the Highland Wellbeing Website, which has lots of helpful links to services and resources to support children and young people, and has proven to be useful for parents/carers and professionals too.

https://www.wellbeinghighland.co.uk

National Mourning

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At this time of national mourning, children and young people might have questions about what has happened or be dealing with feelings of grief for numerous reasons. Adults supporting children and young people might need some guidance on how to respond. Winston’s Wish have created a support page with easy to read information and plan to update it with resources and information, including guides on how to support young people and answer their questions Winston’s Wish – Supporting Children and young People on the Death of the Queen

Please also remember that we have a book list and other resources that you can find under the Professionals section of the website.

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Training Dates 2022/23 – Seasons for Growth

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Are you considering what training you would like to access in the year ahead? Or are you a companion who needs to attend a reconnector to remain accredited? Has your accreditation lapsed, but you would like to be able to still deliver Seasons? Trained CYP Companion but now interested in being able to offer the Parent Programme?

It’s never too early to get booked on to our training for the year ahead. Visit the Seasons Training page to see all of the dates available to new and existing Seasons companions.

If you are completely new to Seasons, take a look at our Training Pathway first to decide which training and which staff are most suited to what is on offer.

Our Change, Loss & Bereavement Training Dates for 2022/23 will be published soon and sign up will be via the Highland CPD calendar. Further information to follow.

Want to know a little more about Seasons for Growth?

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We have created a short video that may be useful for you if you would like to watch and hear about the Seasons Children & Young People Programme or the Seasons Parent Programme. This may be particularly useful for sharing with School staff, Parents or C&YP if you are looking at getting the programme up and running in your school.

Keep an eye on the blog for our training dates for the year ahead, they will be coming very soon!

Upcoming Training Dates

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Our Change, Loss and Bereavement sessions continue to be on offer for the remainder of this academic year. Our next session is next Tuesday, the 22nd of March at 4pm. The session is delivered over google meet, gives an introduction to change and loss and is suitable for any member of staff working with children, young people and their families.
For more information, or to book a place please contact jo.chamberlain@highland.gov.uk

We also continue to offer Seasons for Growth C&YP Training and Parent Programme Training. Our C&YP Training is almost full for the year, with one or two spaces left on the June dates – if you want one of these spaces, get in touch quickly!

Our Parent Programme Training is running for the last time this academic year on Tuesday 26th April. If you or a member of your team are already trained in the C&YP programme and would like to be able to deliver the Parent Programme please get in touch (again ASAP) to sign up. Places are limited and we are placing orders for materials in the coming days. If you want further information about what the programme and the training entails, again; get in touch with Jo to find out more.

Change, Loss & Bereavement Training on In-Service Day

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Just a quick reminder that our CLB training is running on the In-Service day next week. If you or someone you know has been keen to access this training please contact jo.chamberlain@highland.gov.uk for joining instructions. The session is 1.5 hours long, with time built in for questions and discussion.

See how the training fits in to the bigger picture on our Training Pathway.

Please also note the dates available for the rest of the school year. To book on to one of these just get in touch.