Creating a context for healing in the other 23 hours.
Select the options below for available course dates.
For information on the differences with these available dates, scroll down to the "Meeting Your Training Needs" section.
Open Train the Trainer Course: "Come to us"
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- 30th April- 2nd May 2024 Brisbane, Qld
- 29th October- 31st October Newcastle, NSW
Agency Hosted Training Dates: "We Come to You"
Contact TACT now to discuss holding these dates for your Agency
- 27th February- 29th February 2024
- 25th June- 27th June 2024
- 27th August- 29th August 2024
- 27th November- 29th November 2024
Three Pillars of Transforming Care is a comprehensive two-day course designed to assist out-of-home care and special education providers understand and address the core trauma-related needs of their children and young people.
The program is designed by Dr Howard Bath and Dr Diana Boswell, both with extensive backgrounds as practitioners and researchers in out of home care to provide essential insights and tools for those working in environments where complex care needs are paramount.
The Three Pillars program is used widely around the world, particularly in Europe, the USA, Canada, and New Zealand, in addition to Australia. It is widely cited and there is a growing body of research evidence that attests to its effectiveness.
The program applies a holistic approach to understanding and addressing the core trauma-related needs of children and young people. By focusing on the three core needs and the related pillars of intervention, the course seeks to enable workers, parents and other mentors to create supportive environments that nurture emotional, psychological, social and educational well-being.
The Three Pillars of Transforming Care Framework
The Three Pillars of Transforming Care course has been developed for Agencies that wish to ensure that their staff and carers are informed about and sensitive to, the impacts of early adversity and trauma on children and young people.
It focuses on the three, core trauma-related needs of children and young people in special care and education settings and the priorities for intervention and support.
Developed by Drs Howard Bath and Diana Boswell, both with extensive backgrounds as practitioners and researchers in out of home care, the course is now provided in Australia, Europe, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the USA. In Sweden, for example, over 20,000 residential workers in hostels for unaccompanied minor refugees and other care services, have been trained in the framework, largely through the Save the Children organisation.
Designed primarily for direct carers (residential and foster care workers and other mentors) and education specialists, the Three Pillars course is based on research evidence, current clinical perspectives and years of direct experience with children and young people with complex needs and challenging behaviours.
The Three Pillars is not a ‘whole-of-agency’ change model so it does not venture into issues such as the types of meetings in a program, the specific training requirements, staffing or the nature of documentation, nor does it require a long-term financial relationship with the developers. It is designed to enrich existing service provision and to integrate with other models of care, for example, the CARE model out of Cornell University or ‘Sanctuary’.
Topic Areas:
- The need to understand the impact of severe adversity and trauma from within a positive-growth context rather than an exclusive focus on harm and dysfunction.
- The fundamentals of trauma theory including types of trauma, arousal and stress mechanisms, the impact on brain development, the role of memory and dissociation.
- Research on the behavioral, social, cognitive and emotional difficulties that may affect young people who have been exposed to the various types of trauma
- The Three Pillars of transformation - the need to FEEL SAFE; the need for positive, trust-based CONNECTIONS with caring adults, engagement with the ‘normal’ community and cultural roots; and the need to develop adaptive COPING strategies for complex external life circumstances as well as a turbulent inner world.
Approach & Materials:
Instructional methods include brief presentations, videos, worksheets, group discussions and a small number of role plays. Trainers receive a comprehensive training manual covering all course material as well as a guidebook that includes all PowerPoint slides and handouts.
The textbook The Three Pillars of Transforming Care: Trauma and resilience in the other 23 hours (2018, H. Bath & J. Seita, Faculty of Education Publishing, University of Winnipeg) provides a resource and reference guide for course material. This book is provided to participants to read before the course.
A knowledge test based on the contents of the book and training manual, is undertaken at the conclusion of the course. Upon successful completion of the course and knowledge test, participants receive a certificate and certification to provide the course for staff and carers within their agencies.
Meeting Your Needs: Tailored Pathways
The Three Pillars of Transforming Care program is customizable to suit your service requirements. The following are the four key options crafted to address the specific needs of your organisation.
1. Agency Hosted Direct Training: “We come to you”
TACT will come to your workplace to deliver this training to your staff.
This option will provide a 2 day (12 hour) DIRECT training of the Three Pillars for up to 10 front-line staff/carers with one instructor, and up to 20 with two instructors.
The two-day direct training course is designed for agencies who do not identify the need for an Three Pillars internal trainer.
2. Open Train the Trainer Course: “Come to us”
This training is hosted by TACT and will provide instruction, materials, venue and catering. It is recommended an agency sends a minimum of 2 staff to enable an effective role out within their programs. Details of the dates, location, venue and costs will be provided on the TACT Training website.
The three-day train-the-trainer course is designed for organizations that wish to develop an in-house capacity to provide the Three Pillars of Transforming Care.
Who is this course for?
The course is targeted at senior practitioners, coordinators, trainers, clinicians and others with responsibility for training, program design, case management or supervision. The program will include training resources as well as covering the skills and program requirements for providing the training to others.
It is assumed that participants will be experienced practitioners who have some familiarity with the issues involved, some working knowledge of developmental/complex trauma, and experience working with children and young people who have experienced severe adversity.
A short knowledge test based on the contents of the book and training manual, is undertaken at the conclusion of the course. Upon successful completion of the course and knowledge test, participants receive certification to provide the course for staff and carers within their agencies for a period of 3 years.
3. Agency Hosted Train the Trainer Course: “We come to you”
TACT will come to your workplace to deliver this training to your staff. Your agency will provide the venue and catering. It is recommended that the agency has a minimum of 6 training participants and a maximum of 20.
For up to 10 participants one instructor will provide this training; 11-20 participants requires two instructors.
The three-day train-the-trainer course is designed for organizations that are of medium to large in size and wish to develop an in-house capacity to provide the Three Pillars of Transforming Care. Organizations will save resources and cost and TACT will come to your workplace to facilitate the course. This option also allows for some capacity to tailor aspects of the course to meet the needs of specific client groups.
Who is this course for?
The course is targeted at senior practitioners, trainers, clinicians and others with responsibility for training, program design, case management or supervision.
It is assumed that participants will be experienced practitioners who have some familiarity with the issues involved, some familiarity with the concepts of developmental/complex forms of trauma, and experience working with vulnerable children and young people.
A short knowledge test based on the contents of the book and training manual, is undertaken at the conclusion of the course. Upon successful completion of the course and knowledge test, participants receive a certificate and certification to provide the course for staff and carers within their agencies.
4. Agency Hosted HYBRID course with both Direct training and & Train the Trainer streams: “We come to you”
TACT will come to your workplace to deliver this training to your staff. This option will provide a 2-day DIRECT Training of the Three Pillars to primarily front-line staff with an additional 3rd day for Senior Practitioners to attend and seek certification in becoming trainers.
The three-day HYBRID train-the-trainer course is designed for agencies new to Three Pillars that wish to provide direct training to direct care staff as well as identify up to 6 Senior practitioners to attend an additional day and be certified as trainers.
A knowledge test based on the contents of the book and training manual, is undertaken at the conclusion of the course (for those participating in the train-the-trainer stream). Upon successful completion of the course and knowledge test, participants receive certification to provide the course for staff and carers within their agencies.
TACT aims to meet the needs of your organisation. Please contact us to discuss your needs including additional dates and options not listed.