Safe4Child – Trauma informed approaches to support staff working with children and adolescents exhibiting behaviors that challenge
Project duration
Source of funding
Erasmus+
KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education
Total funding
358 235 €
The aim of the project is to develop a training for frontline workers and nursing students related to aggression management in child and adolescent psychiatric and residential units. In addition, we will develop a high-fidelity simulation virtual platform that works with VR glasses.
Main objectives:
- To develop a trauma focused framework for managing aggressive children and adolescents in psychiatric and residential units.
- To develop an online course (5ect), “Safe4Child – trauma focus care for child aggression management” with a course handbook
- To develop a technical high-fidelity virtual reality environment with a user manual for Safe4Child trauma focus care simulations.
- To make a Safe4Child trauma focus care implementation guide for extended target groups.
In this Safe4Child project we will have four main results consisting of several activities.
In the first result (R1): Trauma focus framework for children’s and adolescents’ aggressive behavior management
A framework for Safe4Child trauma focus care will be developed, based on mapping current evidence and stakeholder consultation.
Activities for result one are:
- literature review related to trauma focused care in child psychiatric care
- safety incidents data report from child psychiatric wards to indicate the level of aggression
- focus group interviews in each participating country among frontline workers working with children in psychiatric and residential units
- dissemination of result activities will take place via scientific and professional publications
In the second result (R2): Online Course curriculum “Safe4Child –trauma focus care for child aggression management”
A online course curriculum “Safe4Child – trauma focus care for child and adolescent aggression management” will be developed.
Activities of this result two are:
- developing high-fidelity simulation content to use in virtual surroundings
- developing, piloting, and evaluating an online course content (5 ect) “Safe4Child – trauma focus care for child and adolescent aggression management”
- a course handbook will be handed out
- dissemination of result activities will take place via scientific and professional publications
In the third result (R3): Technical, high-fidelity virtual reality environment
A technical high-fidelity virtual reality environment will be developed.
Activities for this result three are:
- planning a technical platform for virtual reality (VR) cases
- developing, testing and evaluating virtual reality (VR) high-fidelity surroundings with Safe4Child – trauma focus care cases among nursing students
- a user manual for VR simulations will be handed out
In the fourth result (R4): Implementation guide for extended target groups
A Safe4Child trauma focus care implementation guide will be developed.
Activities for this result four are:
- collecting information from previous results
- extended stakeholder analysis will be conducted including early childhood education, school healthcare, socialwork, residental childcare and child psychiatry
- developed implementation guide content will be validated by Steering Group (SG) panel
- dissemination of result activities will take place via scientific publications
All project materials will be made available freely on the project website under Creative Commons 4.0 International License, Attribution-Non-Commercial: all materials can be downloaded and used for non-commercial reasons, but authors need to be quoted.
Check the materials and read more on Safe4Child project’s website.
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Turku University of Applied Science, Finland
University College Cork, Ireland
University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Hamburt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
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