Capa Community Connections
Let’s Network!
We run Capa Community Connection events for professionals with bite-sized education opportunities from guest speakers, covering topics such as:
Neurodiversity
Primary age children
Trauma
Adoption, fostering and Kinship caring
Capa Community Connections – providing FREE educational workshops and presentations.
We are passionate about spreading the word around CAPVA and supporting professionals to expand their knowledge and understanding in this area. Over the past few years we have provided workshops on: Neurodiversity, Hearing from young people themselves and Adoption & Fostering experts, with over hundred professionals attending each session, benefiting from break out rooms for networking and knowledge sharing.
“Wonderful session, thanks so much. Thanks Capa for putting on this important session”
“Thanks for today, I found it very thought provoking and useful”.
Our next Community Connection event will announced soon.
You can view details of past networking sessions below, and view recordings where available.
Eliza Fricker #CapaCommunityConnections
Information and the video of the fantastic session from Eliza Fricker. In the video you can hear Eliza talk through her family’s experience with school avoidance, PDA and how it brought her to start illustrating and writing books for parents/carers and for young people themselves. She shares the story behind ‘Can’t not Won’t’ – the book that became a Sunday Times Bestseller.
Dr Thien Trang Phan – Capa Community Connections
During this session Dr Thien, joining us from Vietnam, led the attendees through her doctoral research, undertaken at Anglia Ruskin University and titled “Mothers abused by their (now) adult children”. In her presentation she acknowledges that this area is ‘an invisible problem’. Also covered were different patterns of abuse that are often seen in children who display these behaviours, such as domestic abuse and elder abuse.
Al Coates MBE – Community Connections
The session looked at CAPA through the lens of adoption, fostering and kinship carers.
Dr Vicky Baker – Hearing from young people
You may have spotted that our 'word for the year' is COMMUNITY, and to ensure we really do keep this at the forefront in our work we recently hosted a free networking event (online, so people could join regardless of location!) for professionals who work with families...