The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and National Crime Agency (NCA) launched an online safety campaign highlighting the risks children face when using live streaming platforms. Please watch their animated film #WhoIsSam and start talking to your children about their online safety. Updated guidelines have been added to Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Command's Thinkuknow website, providing parents and guardians, and children of all ages with the latest a

In case you missed it, here is a round up of news articles that we've been sharing over the past week or so on social media. Please click or tap on the links or pictures below to read more... 'Vulnerable children have to reach crisis to get help' 15/11/2017 - BBC News Virtual reality lets adults see neglect and abuse through a child's eyes 14/11/2017 - The Guardian School exclusion 'the ultimate rejection' for adopted kids 11/11/2017 - BBC News As a child psychiatrist, I kno

"Prince William has launched a big plan to help keep young people safe online. His charity, the Royal Foundation, has worked with lots of technology and social media companies, as well as charities and young people, to put together a list of advice designed to tackle the problem of cyberbullying. The list of advice, which is aimed at 11 to 16-year-olds, is called 'Stop, speak, support'.” (via BBC News) For support and more information take a look at the Stop Speak Support web

For children who have been severely psychologically damaged in contexts where the community did not (or could not) protect them, healing will require a community approach. Take a look at our ACEs and Trauma Informed Care board on Pinterest for more content... #ACEs #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #ChildhoodTrauma #7030Campaign #TraumaInformedCare #TraumatizedYouth #Trauma #NonviolentResistance #NVR #Pinterest

Relationships with supportive, caring adults as early in life as possible, can prevent or reverse the damaging effects of toxic stress. Take a look at our ACEs and Trauma Informed Care board on Pinterest for more content... #ACEs #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #AdoptedChildren #ChildhoodTrauma #7030Campaign #TraumaInformedCare #TraumatizedYouth #StressinChildhood #ToxicStress #Trauma #Pinterest

Some key stats from the 70/30 Campaign showing why prevention and treatment of Adverse Childhood Experiences (e.g. abuse, neglect and witnessing domestic violence) is so important. Take a look at our ACEs and Trauma Informed Care board on Pinterest for more content... #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #ACEs #ChildhoodTrauma #Trauma #TraumaInformedCare #TraumatizedYouth #7030Campaign #Pinterest

Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. In her TEDMED Talk, Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental health or substance abuse issues has real, tangible effects on the development of the brain. This is her impassioned plea for pediatric medicine to confront the prevention and treatment of trauma, head-on. Take a look at our ACEs and Trauma-informed Care Board on Pinterest

Adoption UK has just announced that the updated online version of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) guide has now been published. “The ASF is available to all children adopted from care and not just newly adopted children – it can be used to fund therapeutic support for children from the point at which they are placed with their adoptive families rather than having to wait until the adoption order is made.” Take a look at our Funding Support for the Adoption Community Board on

From the powerful OVEO & @StopVEO verbal abuse campaign - “Let's educate our kids in a violence free environment”. Take a look at our Videos and Audios Board on Pinterest for more content you might find of interest... #VerbalAbuse #OVEO #StopVEO #NonviolentResistance #NVR #Videos #Pinterest

It’s about asking what’s happened to a person, NOT what’s wrong with them. Take a look at our ACEs and Trauma Informed Care Board on Pinterest for more content you might find of interest... #ACEs #Trauma #AdverseChildhoodExperiences #ChildhoodTrauma #TraumaInformedCare #TraumatizedYouth #7030Campaign #Pinterest

“Robbyn Peters Bennett is a psychotherapist, educator, and child advocate who specializes in the treatment of trauma-related mental health problems resulting from the effects of early childhood stress, abuse and neglect. She is the founder of StopSpanking.org, a non-profit dedicated to educating the public on the dangers of spanking”. This is her TEDx talk... Take a look at our Videos and Audios board on Pinterest for more content you might find interesting... #TEDx #Supporti

Recently added to our Pinterest Trauma Informed Care: What Is It and Why Should We Care? from the website, SW Helper. You can see more content by following our Articles of Interest board on Pinterest... #Trauma #TraumaInformedCare #SWHelper #Pinterest #TraumatizedYouth #ChildhoodTrauma

Supportive Parenting - neither rescuing nor abandoning, but warmly encouraging... Eli R Lebowitz - Anxiety and the family: Parenting anxious children (via Yale University on YouTube) You can follow our Supportive Parenting board on Pinterest here... #EliRLebowitz #AnxietyandtheFamily #ParentingAnxiousChildren #Pinterest #SupportiveParenting

Useful tips for de-escalation, delivered with FAS in mind, but applicable to anyone who can easily become volatile. 5 Unhelpful Responses We Have to Escalated Kids and Adults (via Oregon Behavior Consultation on YouTube). You can follow our Pinterest Videos and Audios board here... #TipsforDeescalation #Pinterest

We've just updated our NVR Books board on Pinterest with this RCPV NVR Handbook for Practitioners (follow the link to download a copy). You can follow this board here for any new updates... #RCPVNVRHandbookforPractitioners #NVR #NVRBooks #Pinterest #NonviolentResistance #CPV #APVA #ChildtoParentViolence #ChallengingBehaviour #ExtremeBehaviour #ParentalAbuse #ViolentChild #ViolentandDestructiveYoungPeople #DevelopmentalTrauma #DestructiveChild #CPVA

We recently shared this Holes in the Wall blog post, please follow this link to read more... ...and you can follow our Articles of Interest board here: #Articlesofinterest #Pinterest #ChildtoParentViolence #CPV #NonviolentResistance #HolesintheWallBlog #HelenBonnick #APVA #ParentalSupport #ExtremeBehaviour #ViolentChild #ViolentandDestructiveYoungPeople #ChallengingBehaviour #DestructiveChild #DevelopmentalTrauma #CPVA

Have just updated our Pinterest NVR Books board with these books by Haim Omer... You can following this board here for any new updates... #NVRBooks #TheNewAuthority #TreatingChildhoodandAdolescentAnxiety #ParentalVigilantCare #HaimOmer #EliRLebowitz #Pinterest #DestructiveChild #ViolentChild #ViolentandDestructiveYoungPeople #NonviolentResistance #CPV #CPVA #APVA #ChallengingBehaviour #ExtremeBehaviour

Have just added these two books to our NVR Books board on Pinterest... You can keep up to by following our board here... #NVRBooks #SarahFisher #ConnectiveParenting #CarmeliteAvrahamKrehwinkel #DavidAldridge #HappyFamilies #SupportiveParenting #Pinterest

Click here to read this article from www.socialworkerhelper.com (originally shared on our FB Page in March 2016). Take a look at our Articles of Interest board on Pinterest for more content you might find of interest #TraumatizedYouth #Trauma #ChildhoodTrauma #TedXVideo #RobbynPetersBennett #SocialWorkerHelper #StressinChildhood #Pinterest