Kinship Kitchen Teen Group
*New Teen Group will be starting on 17 January 2024 and running weekly (term-time) until Easter 2024. This is a group for young people aged 12-16, growing up in kinship care (regardless of legal orders- open to SGO/Care Orders/No Orders- all are welcome).
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The group will be held in South London, SE23. Participants will have an opportunity to gain a food safety qualification and possibly flexible paid employment, depending on their age and suitability.
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This group will be led by qualified social worker, Anna Lou Manca. All Kinship Kitchen staff that children will come in contact with are DBS checked.
Kinship Carers Hub Webinars
Kinship Hub are proud to announce our newest support offering for kinship carers. We are working collaboratively with Silenced (www.silenced.org.uk) who have secured London Catalyst funding, to offer kinship carers the opportunity to access a FREE specialist programme 'Who's in Charge?' This is a 9-week child to parent abuse (CPA) programme aimed at kinship carers whose children are being abusive or violent toward them and/or family members. Sessions will be held via MS Teams from 7-9pm for eight weeks on Tuesday evenings from 20 February 2024 till 16 April 2023 (with a break Easter week), with a further follow-up session in May/June 2024.
In the eight-week ‘Who’s In Charge?’ course (presented online via MS Teams), carers will gain insights into their child’s behaviours, experiences that contribute to children developing violent and abuse behaviours, practical strategies and interventions for managing aggressive and violent behaviours and offer emotional support.
Benefits of the Who’s in Charge? Training:
- Reduce carer’s feelings of isolation
- Challenge carer’s feelings of guilt
- Lessen deterministic thinking about causes- it is always multi-causal
- Reinforce belief in the possibility of change (without giving false hope or creating complacency
- Clarify boundaries of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
- Arm carers with some simple concepts that have proved empowering: e.g. entitlement the power of being irresponsible, etc.
- Examine strategies for creating meaningful and practical consequences for unacceptable behaviours. Finding consequences for children who care about little and don’t want to cooperate is very difficult.
- Explore anger, both childrens’ and (often more usefully) carers’
- Encourage assertiveness
- Encourage self-care
- Reinforce progress and provide emotional support while parents are attempting to become more assertive parents.
Programme Outline:
Session 1- Introductions, questionnaires and genograms
Session 2- Cause and influences of abusive behaviour
Session 3- What is abuse?
Session 4- What can I control in my child’s life?
Session 5- Consequences
Session 6- Anger and breaking the myths of anger
Session 7- Assertiveness
Session 8- Self-care, future goal setting and evaluation
Session 9- One or two month follow up on goal achievement, evaluation and further goals.
*As places for these trainings are limited, we will be prioritising carers that are currently affected by this issue and are also available to attend all 8 sessions and the follow up at the end of the course.
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South London Kinship Carers Cooking Club Dates
Kinship Carers Cooking Club for those with children 0-11 will come back on 27th January at a new venue!
South London Gallery @ 82 Peckham Road, SE15 5LQ. Our cooking session will be held upstairs (there is a lift) from 1pm-3pm every last Saturday of the month, term time only. We will batch cook some delicious dishes for us to take home and maybe keep in the freezer for another day. We will also be operating a community fridge with donations from our partner supermarkets.
North London Kinship Carers Cooking Club Dates
Kinship Carers Cooking Club has finished for 2023. We are uncertain at this time when it will return.
Kinship Kitchen Fermentation Workshops
Check back later for more upcoming workshop dates.
Kinship Carers Meet-ups
We also plan family fun days/ social meet-ups a couple times per year as an opportunity for new families to come and meet everyone and have a fun day with other kinship families. Check back soon for upcoming dates.