I Matter Training for Organisations
Helping You to Support Healthier Happier Relationships In Your Role
WELCOME TO I MATTER FOR ORGANISATIONS
BECOME AN I MATTER INFORMED ORGANISATION
Helping adults to help children INTRODUCTION SESSIONS
THE I MATTER FRAMEWORK INTENSIVE - 6 WEEK COURSE
WHAT IS I MATTER FOR PROFESSIONALS
SHARING I MATTER - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The truth is some rethinking is urgently needed in health and in education and social care practices.
Here at the I Matter Practice we have been training professionals and parents in the I Matter Framework since 2010. The I Matter focus is on restoring relationship health, including the place of family relationships in child and family practice.. Our work is attachment focussed and built on an understanding of interpersonal stress regulation and trauma and the power of our beliefs and attitudes.
I Matter for Organisations has three strands
i) Core awareness training helping staff in a variety of roles to do some careful thinking about some fundamentals of the theory on which good practice is based.
ii) Practical in depth skills training for a core team who is looking out for the everyday needs of anxious and challenging children and their families
iii) Supporting others - facilitation training helping you to build capacity to support other professionals and parents and carers with typical or specialist needs on an I Matter Journey
I Matter Training can help your organisation to i) build awareness and ii) support access to a specialist assessment and longer term team learning pathway for parents and professionals
The organisational journey is offered due to the clear role that an informed organisation can make to outcomes for children who are anxious or challenging.
Why Become an Organisational Member?
We're here to help you develop a pre-early help strategy to help your staff and families respond to anxious and challenging behaviour
Membership is open to GP' Practices and Schools who want to take forward support for improved Relationship Health in their community. You can become an organisational member of the I Matter Project when you have two staff who have completed the Intensive programme.
Support Staff Confidence and Wellbeing
I Matter is intended to help professionals develop shared insight with colleagues and families. Participation in I Matter Training offers staff a chance to reflect in depth about their own role. We have a senior leaders and staff development programme options for members.
Support Skills of Parents & Young People
The area of parent and young person relationship skills development is an area that has been massively overlooked. The Awards scheme supports investment in the skills of parents and young people. It helps you support prevention and in specialist intervention needs.
Put Relationship Health Skills Centre Stage in your Organisational Culture
I Matter thinking is something that takes practice. It is easy to fall back into old ways. By committing to an organisational development process you help make sure key principles get embedded into practices through building team confidence.
Your Mission... should you choose to accept it... is to develop your insight and skills in Relationship Health informed Practice with anxious or challenging children and adults so as to bring about important results. Through participation in an I Matter Challenge you will carefully explore what important research evidence on children’s mental health and well-being is REALLY saying - so that in 1-6 months time, you and your team will be moving forward with confidence in personal, professional and organisational roles to make a positive and sustained difference for one or more children - and for yourself.
ORGANISATIONAL MEMBERSHIP SUPPORTS:
The integration of
Organisational, Professional and Personal Development
We bring up to date psychological theory into a very practical form that helps you to work effectively into areas of practice that have traditionally been overlooked and hard to reach.
+ Work with a wider senior network on issues that really matter
+ Build your staff confidence with anxious and challenging children through access to training and direct coaching
+ Improve the quality of EHCP and Adoption support provision
+ Help us work with you to build pre-early help capacity to build parent-carers skills
+ Influence the shape of education of the future
INFORMATION ON ORGANISATION MEMBERSHIP
Becoming a member is about supporting a movement for improved Adult-Child and Adult-Adult Relationship Health
Stages of Organisational Development
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STAGE |
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Benefits |
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Relationship Health Matters Community |
Organisational Membership open to all. |
You can listen into Monthly discussions |
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Organisational Payment Agreement |
Staff apply to take part in I Matter Intensive training in org role |
Your staff will take part in supported intensive training |
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GETTING STARTED ORGANISATIONAL MEMBERSHIP |
When two staff including 1 SLT have completed intensive you can apply to become an organizational member (at Core or Active Level). The priority is to build a team and to start to embed I Matter thinking in everyday practices in a manner that can be sustained. You can complete an annual I Matter audit, and plan and join the senior network. You can build inhouse I Matter Informed leadership team providing access to Awareness training in form of Getting Started Inset and Essentials |
You can develop the confidence of your core team through: |
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STAGE 1 |
EXTENDED JOURNEY |
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Option to apply to Stage 2 on completion |
One or more staff registers on |
Key staff can take part in ongoing coaching to help address needs of specific children |
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STAGE 2 |
SUPPORTING OTHERS - TRAINEE LEAD PROF |
On First Steps & Intensive |
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Stage 2-1 |
Term 1: Professionals: Trainees gain experience of offering complementary study support to inhouse professionals on GS and Essentials and Intensive |
Your inhouse lead can offer complementary Study support for min 2 inhouse staff on each programme |
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Stage 2-1-PC 2 SUPPORTING PARENTS EVERYDAY |
Term 2: Everyday Concerns Parents-Carers Trainees gain experience of offering complementary study support to parents with Everyday concerns on Getting Started and Essentials |
Your inhouse lead can offer complementary Study support for min of 4 parents on GS and Essentials |
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Stage 2-2-PC SUPPORTING PARENTS RAISED CONCERNS |
Term 3: Raised Concerns Parents-Carers Trainees gain experience of offering complementary study support to parents with Raised Concerns with referral |
Your inhouse lead can offer complementary Study Support for min of 4 parents working through assessment and intensive |
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ADVANCED PRACTICE |
TRAINEE ADVANCED PRACTITIONER |
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Stage 2-3-PC SUPPORTING COMPLEX NEEDS Advanced Practice |
For those in specialist services only: Trainees offer support with the assessment and recommendations process for those with raised concerns and work face to face with young people as part of therapeutic family work |
You have an agreement with a trained Advanced Practitioner who provides oversight. |
Entry to the Stage 1 Extended Journey and potential Stage 2 Lead role is by application
Places on further training are offered as part of a process of improving care outcomes for specific focus children with additional needs
Staff should have Informed Senior Leadership support and
Stage 1:
+ A clear named focus child and a dedicated role with at least 10 hours a week with the focus child
+ An active interest in supporting anxious and challenging children with openness to learn
+ To progress to Stage 2 - experience of working effectively with a range of children with complex needs
Stage 2
+ An active interest in and experience of working with parents with openness to learn
+ Strong abilities to connect with a wide range of adults and young people
+ Be perceived as warm, positive and encouraging and ready to go the extra mile
+ Good understanding of safeguarding
+ Confidence of senior leadership
Lead Professionals can use resources to support complementary discussions with parents who are on an I Matter Journey but do not themselves train others in I Matter - that is offered by the online classes and training. Professionals who have completed I Matter Training can describe themselves as offering practice informed by I Matter Principles (to a given stage). The key role is facilitation. The use of I Matter Resources is carefully protected - so a condition of continuation of all of the licences that resources are usedd only in line with our guidelines.