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To register your FREE place click here Growing Up Is Never Easy – Thursday 7 th May (12noon-1pm) 'Growing up is never easy' explores the developmental stages to adulthood, provides a better understanding of young people’s developmental needs and the importance of relationships to support and manage these key stages. Conflict Triggers and Response Styles – Wednesday 20 th May (8:30-9:30am) Conflict Triggers and Response Styles' explores some of the triggers involved in relationships that contribute to potential conflict escalation and its impact on those relationships. It highlights how to manage conflicts by understanding response styles and how they are applied, as a guide. When it comes to conflict, it is useful to identify and understand how conflict response styles can inform good practice. Anxiety and Resilience – Tuesday 9 th June (12noon-1pm) 'Anxiety and Resilience - Understanding Emotions and Coping' highlights the state of being anxious and afraid and the difference between anxiety and stress which are underlying causes for this state. Utilising the SCCR’s digital resource to show the science behind this state the meaning of resilience is explored and how different factors may affect this. The idea that resilience is not a character trait but something that we have and build on through our lives through experiential learning is looked at and tips and coping skills on how to build this up are discussed. Understanding Emotions and Anger – Tuesday 23 rd June (8:30am-9:30am) 'Understanding Emotions and Anger' will introduce you to primary and secondary emotions, emotions we present and emotions we feel. It demonstrates how the process of anger works, its trigger, escalation, release, de-escalation and resolve. Understanding that anger is a normal human emotion and looking at self-awareness and tools we can use to identify emotions and regulate them. How to have that difficult conversation – Wednesday 8 th July (12noon-1pm) 'How to have that difficult conversation (communication)' will highlight how we can help us strengthen our relationships, build our confidence and resilience, help the other person/s to listen and understand us better, help us learn to manage other difficult situations more compassionately, and make us a better communicator. It will provide practical tips on managing a tricky conversation and ways that you can support yourselves and others through them. The Cranial Cocktail – Wednesday 22 nd July (8:30am-9:30am) 'The Cranial Cocktail - Mind and Body' introduces the SCCR psychoeducational information resource- Cranial Cocktail. The resource illustrates the mind body connection between neurochemicals and emotional states, providing a key support resource in emotional regulation. To register for any of these events click here For further information on this and all other SCCR training and events being held across Scotland, please contact our Event Organiser, Caroline Ross, on [email protected]

We are particularly looking to engage men who may be interested in making a positive difference in a young person’s life. At this time, because of feedback from the young people we support, we are particularly keen to hear from potential male volunteers; and whilst we are happy to accept applications from males and females of all ages we are keen to hear from potential volunteers in their 20s or 30s as our young people are often looking to share activities and experiences with people within this age range. It may also be useful, though not essential, if a potential volunteer has access to a car as some travel may be involved. If you are a member of any group and you think this would be of interest then Aberlour would love to come along and connect, to tell you more about the work we do and the difference you would make for a young person. Just now we have seen a real shortage of male befrienders and we know how crucial the volunteer work is to help a young person. As a volunteer befriender you would be matched with a child, who you would spend regular time with on a 1:1 basis, building a trusting relationship and having fun. You would take part in activities that a child enjoys such as playing football/going to the park or to introduce them to new activities or hobbies that they may not have the opportunity to take part in normally. Please check out our opportunity on this site.

Julia Abel shares why a new investment of almost £4.5m over five years will help Intandem improve the lives of children and families experiencing the care system. Read more.

Aberlour, One Parent Families Scotland and Trussell commissioned the research as they campaign for reform of how debt is pursued. Read more here .

The Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution has re-launched its website with a new look! Their website has changed over the past decade as they've added new resources. Their website was full of great digital conflict resolution resources created for families, and professionals and volunteers who work with them - but recently finding your way around the website hasn't always been as clear as they'd like. After talking to a range of users of our site, the SCCR have got a good idea of what works and what could be better. They've remapped the website so that the user experience is better than ever. Resources are more clearly signposted , with it taking no more than a couple of clicks in most instances to reach what you're after. For example, if you're a teacher and you're looking for our teacher pack Emotions and the Brain , you can now find it be simply clicking the 'For Professionals and Practitioners' tab ; the dropdown menu that appears has another tab, 'For Teachers' that takes you to a page that collects all our educational resources. Voila! SCCR have also have added to the site a new search function . If you know what you're after, type in a keyword and you'll be shown a range of entries containing that search term.

The dates have now been confirmed for Protecting People's final suicide prevention training sessions taking place between now and the end of the financial year. Please see this document which lists all session dates, descriptors and booking links.