Whether it is trauma-informed, attachment-sensitive, child-sensitive, etc., professionals working with young people strive to understand and meet a young person’s individual needs. Often, terminology can create difficulties – for example, saying that being trauma informed makes some people feel like they are making a diagnosis. This is why I want to present a working method that I call “Child-Informed Planning”…
What is a child-informed plan? The process of creating such a plan involves gathering as much information about a young person as possible from a variety of sources and using it to establish what might happen to a young person and what they might need to help them to learn, to flourish and to enjoy positive things. relationships.
Through a series of blog posts, I will outline this process in the coming weeks.
- Collect general information about a young person
- Assessment tools when working with a young person
- Observe a young person
- Collect the young person’s opinion
- Meeting with professionals and others to discuss the young person
- Formulate a simple one-page plan for teachers/pastoral staff
- Write a complete plan
This article will be updated in the coming weeks with links to the content published above.
