Webinar: What makes friendships great for young people with care backgrounds

Friendships are a crucial part of human relationships and care experienced children and young people often identify their friendships as their most important source of emotional support. Despite this, friendships are frequently overlooked, with professionals prioritising family relations.

Leaving school and going to college or university offers a great opportunity for care-experienced young people to make friends for life, but they often need a bit of help with this or even just an opportunity to meet likeminded people.  

Leaving school and going to college or university offers a great opportunity for care-experienced young people to make friends for life, but they often need a bit of help with this or even just an opportunity to meet likeminded people.  

In this webinar Lowis Charfe will share the findings from a small research project she undertook with her colleague Gabriel Eichsteller (ThemPra) where they found out what work is being done to support the friendships of care experienced children and young people. 

Please come and join us to explore friendships, why they're really important and and what we need to do more of to support care experienced young people's friendships. And to get you thinking, here are two questions to consider before the session:  

• What makes a friendship great?
• What's the most trouble, good or bad) you and your friend's caused? Don't worry you won't be asked to share this.

Speakers

Lowis Charfe

Formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, Lowis is now an Independent Trainer working with colleagues at ThemPra Social Pedagogy CIC. Her academic and practice-based work has focused on developing courses in social pedagogy and leadership, including leading the UK team for the Erasmus-funded MOOC Social Pedagogy Across Europe, which has engaged over 6,100 students worldwide.

Lowis is an active member of the Social Pedagogy Professional Association, the Global Alliance for Social Pedagogy, and the Human Learning Systems network. Her publications include Social Pedagogy and Social Work (SAGE, 2019), articles for the International Journal of Social Pedagogy, and contributions to the HLS e-book. In 2023, she co-authored a chapter for the Oxford University Press Handbook of Power, Politics and Social Work exploring the Danish 3P’s framework in practice.

Pricing

This webinar is free to attend for members and costs £25 per person for non-members. Please contact us at [email protected] to know your membership status.

Who should attend?

This webinar is ideal for any practitioner or institution that works with students from care backgrounds and is looking to enhance their support and services for them.

How will it be delivered?

This will be a live webinar hosted on Microsoft Teams. Once registered, the link to join will be shared ahead of the event.

Will this event be recorded?

Yes, this event is being recorded and will be uploaded to the NNECL Members area after the event. Those who are not members will not be able to access the recording.  

We may also take images of the event to share on our social media, if you wish not be included, please let us know via [email protected]

Your access needs

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