About I Matter Training
We are a social enterprise with a social mission!
About Our Social Mission
We do this by supporting YOU (usually adults first and then young people) on an I Matter Journey. This is a learning process comprised of online study, plus in-depth coaching sessions: in which you learn to apply the ideas to your own work and home life supported with face to face sessions, group calls and an innovative on line journaling experience all shadowed by a dedicated coach’. Then we help you learn to support others!
Our Objectives
We aim to provide psycho-education and support for professionals and parents and complex children - that makes a difference to the number of healthy adult-child relationships and the amount of healthy empathy and care in the world
'The parent who is looking for help to support a child who is struggling with relationships, can access it in timely fashion in supportive partnership with their child's school and community'.
'Schools are delivering a developmentally sensitive national curriculum in partnership with parents that prioritises social emotional development and empathy and care development not just literacy and numeracy'
To achieve this end, our aims are to:
1. Improve professional understanding of the key role of relationships and social-developmental in children's brain development
2. Support schools and services in developing the capacity to provide affordable impactful parent education and support that strengthens healthy relationships and empathic understanding of self and other
3. To build a community focused approach that supports parents and carers in developing healthier happier relationships over the longer-term
We aim to connect with people and help transform relationship confidence
AS OF JANUARY 2020 OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN 2020-2025 HAS THE FOLLOWING THREE KEY OBJECTIVES:
1. To build on our social enterprise mission and become financially self-sustaining and well run
2. To have the I Matter Framework become a respected influential approach supporting multi-agency Child and Family Practice, sharing the learning from our experiences of working with Kendal ICC -and Love Morecambe Bay Communities
3. To impact on the quality of local EHCP planning, Adoption Support Plans and the planned care of Looked After Children
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Dr Cathy Betoin
Dr Cathy Betoin Director of the I Matter Project is a practising clinical psychologist, an experienced teacher and a parent.
After nearly 30 years of practice with children and adults with complex social emotional needs, Cathy is committed to finding ways to provide psycho-education and meaningful support to professionals and parents-carers, so that understanding increases between home and school and community.
THE KENDAL INTEGRATED CARE COMMUNITY
The home of the I Matter Framework and the linked training programme is located with the network of the Kendal Integrated Care Community a network of agencies and organisations that are working together to help Kendal and beyond support a happier healthier community for people of all ages.
The Why?
I Matter Training aims to join up the dots for professionals between well evidenced ideas to illustrate their implications for practice decisions. Though the well-evidenced ideas taught through I Matter courses are back to basics and quite straightforward, they can however be quite challenging to implement particularly in the first stages because of the structures that exist that separate health from education and adult mental health from child mental health. The framework is powerful but adults and young people need support in making sense of ideas over time and so we are committed to delivering practice models based in local communities that combines online learning with face to face workshops and local expertise encouraging parents and professionals to develop their expertise and understanding over time.
We are passionate and enthusiastic about taking these practical sometimes life changing ideas out to parents and professionals.
What sorts of challenges?
i) universal services early intervention - working with reception parents about home behaviour
ii) working with parents of children with challenging behaviour
iii) working with adopters on post adoption support
iv) working with parents of children on the autistic spectrum
v) working with professionals who want to take part in parent education and support.
In I Matter we have a saying that all children are complex but some are more complex than others. So if you are someone who actively wants to learn, there will be something here to support your journey. Let's start with You!