24TRA200 Supporting Ukraine Welcome to Our School Webinar

Date:     Thursday, 29th February 2024
Time:     4.30pm - 5.30pm
Venue:  Online via Zoom

Target Audience: Primary and Post Primary School Teachers

This one hour webinar introduces how school staff (or individual teachers) that are new to, or reviewing how they support children and young people from Ukraine and other cultural and linguistically diverse backgrounds can address wellbeing needs. The webinar outlines how to adopt key psychosocial principles (the Hobfoll principles) that have been found to be effective at addressing wellbeing needs of those impacted by a traumatic event. Practical strategies to support the principles are shared with attendees. The last 15 minutes of the webinar is for Q &A

Key Learning Outcome

• Awareness of issues arising for children new to Ireland
• Understand the Hobfoll principles
• Know how to adopt key psychosocial principles (the Hobfoll principles) into practice in their school.