Webinar – What’s Play Got to Do With It?

Play is crucial to building attachment, connection and attunement between the parent and child in the early weeks, months and years of placement.

This webinar considers some theories around play and child development from an attachment and trauma informed perspective.

It also examines how play may be used to support children who may need help in trusting in and/or accepting the availability of their care giver.

We briefly explore play strategies and activities that might help boost being in the moment with your child/ren, as well as recognising your own play preferences too.

By thinking about how you can meet your child in a less resistant part of their brain, it will help both parents and children to begin to learn about and get to know each other.

This webinar is recommended for all stages of adoption and fostering, particularly in early placement.

This webinar is free of charge for Adoption Matters families, Foster Care Matters families and Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) families who are currently receiving support from the Centre for Fostering & Adoption Support (CFAS).

If you are an Adoption Matters solo adopter, you may invite one person to join you at our Centre for Fostering and Adoption Support webinars at no additional cost. This can be a family member or a friend who is supporting you. Please include their details on your registration form.

If you’re not connected to Adoption Matters, Foster Care Matters or CFAS, then you can still attend our webinars but at a cost of just £5 per person.

We offer closed captioning on our webinars to provide a live transcript of what is being said – if you would like to have this activated, then please do contact us at the point of booking so that the facilitator is aware.