Training and Events for Early Years Workforce

Blackpool Better Start offers more than 25 targeted services and community initiatives to support the town’s families through pregnancy and the earliest years of their children’s lives.

To enable professionals to learn more about current programmes and future developments, Blackpool Better Start provides multi agency workforce training, learning events and conferences.

To find out more about training and development opportunities, please contact OWD@blackpool.gov.uk

Adversity & Trauma: The Impact, Coping Strategies, & Protective Factors for our Blackpool Clients & Workforce

22nd April @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tier 1 Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Training: This training explores the impact trauma and adversity has on a person’s lifespan, the coping strategies and self-soothing mechanisms adopted, and the [...]

Better Start Overview

23rd April @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Initiatives for improving early child development in children 0-4 years of age & their families Better Start training presented by Police Officer Jo Mills and Health Visitor Rebecca Calvert [...]

Brain Architecture Game

6th May @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Brain Architecture Game  (2 hours) The Solaris Centre/Bickerstaffe House) Better Start training presented by Police Officer Jo Mills and Health Visitor Rebecca Calvert The Brain Architecture Game is an interactive [...]

Resilience Film: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope

15th May @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Resilience Film: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope (90 mins, online) This documentary film reveals how toxic stress can trigger hormones that wreak havoc on the [...]

Adversity & Trauma: The Impact, Coping Strategies, & Protective Factors for our Blackpool Clients & Workforce

20th May @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tier 1 Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Training: This training explores the impact trauma and adversity has on a person’s lifespan, the coping strategies and self-soothing mechanisms adopted, and the [...]

Brain Architecture Game

21st May @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Brain Architecture Game  (2 hours) The Solaris Centre/Bickerstaffe House) Better Start training presented by Police Officer Jo Mills and Health Visitor Rebecca Calvert The Brain Architecture Game is an interactive [...]

Adversity & Trauma: The Impact, Coping Strategies, & Protective Factors for our Blackpool Clients & Workforce

22nd May @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm

Tier 1 Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Training: This training explores the impact trauma and adversity has on a person’s lifespan, the coping strategies and self-soothing mechanisms adopted, and the [...]

Better Start Overview

28th May @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am

Initiatives for improving early child development in children 0-4 years of age & their families Better Start training presented by Police Officer Jo Mills and Health Visitor Rebecca Calvert [...]