Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding and Responding to Children who Run Away from Home and Institutions
This online course explored the link between adverse childhood experiences and running away, the risks and the impact for children and their families, and ways to effectively improve prevention and support for runaway children.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Aagje Ieven
Secretary General at Missing Children Europe
Missing Children Europe
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Reflect on the competencies of children and how different circumstances and contexts can make children vulnerable.
- Describe what characterizes a runaway child and summarize the impact that misconceptions of these characterizations can have on runaways.
- Reflect on the reasons why children runaway and describe how these reasons vary for different groups of children based on their circumstances.
- Describe adverse childhood experiences and trauma and summarize why they can lead to running away.
- Identify and describe patterns of behavior and symptoms of children at risk of running away.
- Reflect and describe the risks of running away and how it can increase the probability of new adverse childhood experiences or trauma for children.
- Describe the impact of adverse childhood experiences and trauma on children.
- Summarize and describe good practices and interventions in response to adverse childhood experiences and running away.
- Describe the barriers and benefits for children of trusted relationships with adults.
- Summarize and describe good practices to prevent running away
- Reflect on the role of communities in safeguarding children.
- Reflect on the obligation to and benefit of collaborating with children to improve services and communities and describe strategies for working with children.
Syllabus
- Children’s competences and vulnerabilities
- The definition of runaways and runaway behaviour, and how misperceptions of these terms impact runaway children
- Trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), and their link with running away
- The risks associated with running away, and the impact for children and young people
- Positive responses and interventions for runaways
- Working collectively with children and with communities as a strategy for runaway prevention
Issued on 10th August 2023
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