Tag Archives: kinship care

Getting Behaviour Management Right for Deeply Hurt and Troubled Children and Young People: A Triple-A Approach

Posted on August 5, 2025 by colbypearce

Recently, I was invited to deliver training to staff of a local children’s services organisation. I chose to deliver the training on a reflective process for understanding and responding therapeutically to behaviours of concern exhibited by children and young people … Continue reading →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting, Schools, trauma informed care, Trauma Informed Schools | Tagged attachment, attachment theory, Colby Pearce, Donald Winnicott, foster care, John Bowlby, kinship care, OOHC, out of home care, parenting, residential child care, school, social worker, teacher, therapeutic care, trauma informed, trauma informed school | 2 Comments

The Secure Start Podcast Episode 12: Lar Nossa Senhora do Livramento

Posted on June 26, 2025 by colbypearce

Lar Nossa Senhora do Livramento, or “Livramento” for short, is an inspirational home for girls and young women in need, with an interesting 215 year history! That’s right, 215 years since a group of concerned citizens of Porto established a … Continue reading →

Posted in podcast | Tagged attachment, fostercare, kinship care, residential care, residential child care, Social Care, socialcare, therapeutic care, therapeutic residential care, trauma informed | Leave a comment

The Secure Start Podcast Episode 11: Dr Lisa Cherry

Posted on June 15, 2025 by colbypearce

This past week I had the privilege to speak to Dr Lisa Cherry FRSA on The Secure Start Podcast. Lisa is an inspirational global voice for children and young people who could not be safely cared for at home, and … Continue reading →

Posted in podcast | Tagged adoption, attachment, care experienced, care experienced person, care leaver, fostercare, fostering, homelessness, kinship care, parenting, residential child care, resilience, therapeutic care, therapeutic residential care, trauma informed, trauma informed classroom, trauma informed school | Leave a comment

Exploring Attachment, Self-Worth, and Shame

Posted on June 7, 2025 by colbypearce

In this episode of The Secure Start Podcast we do something a little different. This past week I was interviewed by Edmund Hill-Thompson, Head of Learning at Blue Sky Network Social Care as part of their learning and development series … Continue reading →

Posted in podcast | Tagged attachment, attachment relationship, attachment style, attachment theory, child welfare, eduucator, foster care, foster carer, kinship care, kinship carer, residential child care, school, Social Care, therapeutic care, therapeutic residential child care | Leave a comment

Getting behaviour management right for deeply hurt and troubled children and young people: A Triple-A Approach

Posted on May 17, 2025 by colbypearce

Managing behaviours of concern exhibited by deeply hurt and troubled children and young people can be challenging, with conventional approaches like time-out, reward charts, and removing access to a desired item or privilege rarely resulting in a desired outcome. Often … Continue reading →

Posted in AAA Caregiving, Fostering, kinship care, Parenting | Tagged adoption, attachment, behaviour management, behaviour problems, childhood trauma, fostercare, kinship care, meltdown, parenting, tantrum, trauma informed | Leave a comment

The Secure Start Podcast Episode 4: Catherine Knibbs

Posted on May 17, 2025 by colbypearce

I recently interviewed Cath Knibbs on The Secure Start Podcast. Cath is an international authority on online harms to children, and a great speaker to boot! You can watch the podcast at the link below or listen here. Cath’s Bio: … Continue reading →

Posted in podcast | Tagged attachment, children, Cyber trauma, fostercare, fostering, kids, kinship care, online harms, parenting, teens, trauma informed | Leave a comment

What are we not getting right for our boys?

Posted on April 28, 2025 by colbypearce

In a recent interview with Catherine Knibbs on The Secure Start Podcast, as part of my ‘question without notice’ segment I was asked what we are not doing for, or getting right, with our boys. This followed on from a … Continue reading →

Posted in Children's Behaviour, Parenting, podcast | Tagged adoption, Child Protection, child safeguarding, child welfare, cybertrauma, feminism, foster care, fostercare, gender, kids, kinship care, masculinity, men, mental health, online harms, parenting, safeguarding, socialcare, teachers | Leave a comment

The Secure Start Podcast Episode One: Sally Rhodes

Posted on March 22, 2025 by colbypearce

I recently started a podcast. This is a project I intended to launch more than a year ago. Unfortunately, life intervened. My first guest is Sally Rhodes. Sally has a Master of Social Work, and a Graduate Diploma in Family … Continue reading →

Posted in podcast | Tagged autism, Child Protection, child welfare, child welfareleadership, family, foster care, kinship care, mental health, OOHC, out of home care, parenting, podcast, residential child care, reunification, Social Care, trauma, trauma informed | Leave a comment

Breaking the cycle of children entering state care

Posted on February 6, 2025 by colbypearce

One of the more insidious impacts of early relational/developmental trauma lies in the area of language development and, especially, inner state language. In an environment where parents are grossly preoccupied with their own challenges, opportunities for language growth are stunted. … Continue reading →

Posted in trauma informed | Tagged adoption, attachment, breakthecycle, fostercare, fostering, kinship care, parenting, trauma informed, traumainformed | 1 Comment

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