Colby Pearce
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Supporting consistent Therapeutic Caregiving -
Companion App for Therapeutic Classrooms and alignment with home. A practical guide to Attachment & Attachment Disorder
Resilient Kids
Secure Start – Trauma Informed
Self-Paced Learning Modules
The CARE Curriculum
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Five tips for getting your child off to sleep in their own bed
One of the more common struggles reported by parents and caregivers is getting children off to sleep in their own bed. What follows is a simple method to address this issue that I often recommend, and that I used with … Continue reading →
Posted in early learning, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Uncategorized
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child care, child development, childcare, early years, Education, educator, educators, foster care, foster care support, foster carer, howto, kinship care, kinshipcare, kinshipcarer, parent, parenting, parents, post adoption support, sleep, Social Care, socialcare
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Therapeutic Parenting – The CARE Curriculum
Since I began updating A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder in early 2016, the CARE Therapeutic Framework is the name I have used when referring to content and strategies associated with the CARE Model (Consistency, Accessibility, Responsiveness, Emotional … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, early learning, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, training, Training Programs, Trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, Trauma Informed Schools, Uncategorized
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Tagged attachment, child development, child welfare, childcare, early learning, Education, educator, kinship care matters, kinshipcare, kinshipcarematters, kinshipcarer, kinshipcarersmatter, mental health, post adoption support, residential care, residential childcare, resilience, self care, socialcare, teacher, therapeutic fostercare, therapeutic fostering, therapeutic parenting, wellbeing
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Kinship CARE Project Update
The Kinship CARE Project has been extended to 2020. The Kinship CARE Project is a joint initiative of the Department for Child Protection (DCP) and Secure Start®. At the time of writing, and over the previous 18 months, Kinship CARE … Continue reading →
Kinship CARE Project Carer Handbook
The Kinship CARE Project is a dedicated endeavour to support kinship carers in South Australia who are looking after children for whom the Department for Child Protection has an authority to place. For a limited time, I am offering organisations that support kinship carers access to the Kinship CARE Project Carer Handbook via PDF download. Continue reading →
Childhood Trauma Fact Sheets for Early Learning Educators
I am pleased to be able to make available three fact sheets for early learning educators. Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, early learning, Schools, Training Programs, Trauma Informed Schools
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Tagged attachment, behaviour, child care, children, early learning, educator, educators, preschool, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive, wellbeing
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How does parenting influence attachment: The CARE Model
Consider infants. They are not born with a sophisticated language system. They cannot successfully be reasoned with about who their parents are and, therefore, who they should form an attachment to, and who not to. Rather, they form an attachment … Continue reading →
Posted in AAA Caregiving, Adoption, Attachment, Fostering, kinship care, trauma informed
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Tagged attachment, Attachment Disorder, child development, parenting, psychology, resilience
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What is Attachment Disorder?
Over the last three decades, the term ‘attachment disorder’ has entered into common usage among professionals and carers who interact with children who display markedly disturbed and developmentally inappropriate relatedness to others. With greater awareness of the consequences of attachment … Continue reading →
What is Attachment?
‘Attachment’ is a term used to describe the dependency relationship children develop towards their primary caregivers. In ordinary circumstances, an infant’s emerging attachment to their primary caregivers begins to show during the latter half of their first year post-birth, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ainsworth, attachment, attachment theory, Bowlby, child development, psychology, resilience, Strange Situation, wellbeing
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We Love Collaborating
Secure Start® is looking to collaborate with organisations who share our vision of supporting happy, connected children. Continue reading →
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Tagged adoption, attachment, child care, early learning, foster care, kinship care, Model of Care, model of practice, residential care, resilience, therapeutic foster care, therapeutic parenting, trauma, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice, trauma sensitive schools
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A Short Introduction to the Kinship CARE Project
Access a PDF of the full article here. In South Australia, forty-six percent of children in out-of-home care with an authority to place are in a kinship care placement. Kinship care is the largest form of out-of-home care in South … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment, howto, kinship care, kinship care matters, kinship carer, psychology, relationships, therapeutic care, training, trauma informed, trauma informed care, trauma informed practice
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Attachment and Resilience 