Kids Company, the pioneering children’s charity providing practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable inner-city children, is staging a high-profile conference in Bristol to explore how care shapes the brain and behaviour.
Entitled Plasticine Brains, the conference will also look at how society can best support young people in care in their emotional development. It will call on the expertise of Prof Ian Goodyer, a leading child and adolescent psychiatrist at the University of Cambridge, and Prof Alessandra Lemma, a clinical psychologist and director of the Psychological Therapies Unit at the Tavistock and Portman Trust.
The event will be hosted by Camila Batmanghelidjh, pictured, the high-profile founder and director of Kids Company who has created a unique and pioneering approach in delivering services to vulnerable children.
Camila has become an advocate for vulnerable children, speaking regularly at conferences and on TV and has contributed to numerous publications.
Joycelyn Quennell and Lizzie Smorsarski, leading experts and pioneers in the creative arts-based psychotherapies, will give an introduction into the creative and relational approach of Kids Company’s work with children and young people using the imagination and human relationship as vehicles for the development of emotional literacy, transformation and change.
Kids Company’s services reach 17,000 children, including the most deprived and at risk whose parents are unable to care for them due to their own practical and emotional challenges. For many, the roles of adult and child are reversed and, despite profound love, both struggle to survive.
Kids Company provides a safe, caring, family environment where support is tailored to the needs of each individual.
In 2007 it was awarded the Liberty and JUSTICE Human Rights Award. In 2010 we were selected as a ‘Child Poverty Champion’ by the End Child Poverty project for our success in enabling children to achieve their full potential.
The conference is at AtBristol, on Friday September 28 from 10am to 4.30pm.
Tickets cost £95 (including lunch)
For more information contact Jamie Thomas at KIDSCOMPANY on 07944 502421
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