• Learn on the go: the Community Care podcast

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Learn on the go: the Community Care podcast

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  • Community Care editors and expert guests discuss the latest research, theories and practice issues, and look at what they mean for social workers.
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  • The emotional impact of 'contact': Ethan's experience and suggestions for professionals

    The emotional impact of 'contact': Ethan's experience and suggestions for professionals
    Jun 14 2024
    Ethan’s in his early 30s now. He was in foster care from the age of five and then in children’s homes from the age of 11. In this conversation we speak about staying in touch with and seeing family members while in care.

    You'll hear the word ‘contact’ quite a bit - the word that was very much in use when Ethan was young. We hope this makes sense when you listen, while we know practitioners today increasingly recognise the importance of using language that suits the individual child, whether that’s 'family time' or something else.

    Ethan speaks about his experiences of different types of ‘contact’ – including visiting his parents in jail, supervised sessions with his grandparents and siblings, goodbye meetings with other siblings who were adopted, and unsupervised time with his parents as he got older.

    He shares his thoughts on how professionals can support children and young people with the complexity of wanting and valuing connection with family, while dealing with what can be its extremely challenging emotional impact.

    Ethan was speaking to Joanna Silman, senior content editor at Community Care Inform Children.

    Community Care Inform subscribers can access additional resources and a written transcript of the podcast here: https://www.ccinform.co.uk/practice-guidance/podcast-transcript-the-emotional-impact-of-contact-ethans-experience/

    You can watch the video interview Ethan did with Jenny Molloy spoke about his experience of being taken into care, and the social workers who made the biggest difference to his life here: https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2023/10/26/choose-social-work-they-helped-me-escape-the-life-i-was-living-as-a-teenager/

    Ethan believes strongly in the importance of sharing lived experience of different aspects of being a child in care to help improve practice with young people today and speaks at training events for social workers and other professionals. If you would like to get in touch with Ethan, please email ccinformhelpdesk@markallengroup.com and we can pass a message on.
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    33 mins
  • Learn on the go: Jenny Molloy on the adult legacy of her childhood trauma

    Learn on the go: Jenny Molloy on the adult legacy of her childhood trauma
    Mar 26 2024
    Welcome to Learn On The Go, the podcast from Community Care Inform where we discuss research, theories and practice issues and look at what they mean for social care practitioners.

    In this episode we talk to Jenny Molloy, motivational speaker, trainer, care leaver and bestselling author of three books with a fourth about to be published.

    Her first book, Hackney Child, written under the pen name Hope Daniels, describes Jenny’s childhood and how at the age of nine she walked into Stoke Newington police station with her two younger brothers and asked that they be taken into care. Both their parents were addicted to alcohol, their mother was a sex worker, and they’d experienced neglect, malnourishment and poverty.

    When she was 19, Jenny decided to read her social services files, where she discovered that both her parents had also been in care and had experienced traumatic childhoods. So it is testament to Jenny’s strength of character that she not only conquered her own alcohol addiction, but achieved her childhood dream for her future: that her children be raised in a safe, loving, family home and have a "normal life", breaking the cycle of children in care having their children go into care.

    Ordinarily, Jenny talks and trains about life as a child in care, and issues around care leavers and childhood trauma. On this occasion, Jenny is talking about how childhood trauma can play out in adulthood, and how she relapsed and then recovered when it happened to her.

    We do want to give a content warning: Jenny talks about her attempted suicide, being sectioned, and time in a psychiatric hospital.

    We know it can be difficult to hear about people’s trauma so we’d like to remind you to practise self-care and use supervision and peer support if this has brought up anything difficult for you.

    And if you’ve been affected by this episode, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123.

    During the interview, Jenny references the Lambeth Children's Homes Redress Scheme, which you can read about here. And she also mentions the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS).

    The questions were asked by Natalie Valios, senior content editor at Community Care Inform Adults.

    0:02:37.3 - The three triggers

    0:10:10 - The psychiatric hospital

    0:17:49.8 - Recovery

    0:20:53.1 - Adult mental health services

    0:27:36.9 - Healing

    0:31:23.7 - Advice for social workers

    0:33:41.4 - The future

    0:37:05.8 - Hope
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    39 mins
  • Mothers' experiences of domestic abuse and social work

    Mothers' experiences of domestic abuse and social work
    Feb 8 2024
    In this episode, Helen, a facilitator of The Freedom Programme which supports victms and survivors of domestic abuse, and two other mothers with lived experience spoke to Jenny Molloy, bestselling author, motivational speaker and care leaver about their experiences with children's services and what support is most helpful for people in abusive relationships. The conversation was recorded on location at Trevi, the charity that supports women and children.

    As well as community support for women and children, Trevi runs Jasmine's Recovery Centre, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre exclusively for mothers and their children. We recorded a separate episode about mothers experiences of social work connected to substance use. You'll find the episode in the podcast feed.

    Full transcripts of both episodes and supporting materials are available to Community Care Inform subscribers at ccinform.co.uk.
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    19 mins

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