FREE sleep conference and training programme for professionals in Wales

FREE sleep conference and training programme for professionals in Wales working with children with developmental disabilities, Global Developmental Delay and /or disabilities.

The Sleep Charity is a national, award-winning charity empowering the nation to sleep better. We have established ourselves as one of the leading charities in the UK at providing high quality, evidence based training and support to people of all ages with sleep problems and have an advisory board with world leading experts to ensure we do this to the highest standard, verified by the Patient Information Forum and awarded the PIF tick for being a trusted and reliable source of sleep information. If you would like to learn more about us please take a look at our website Home - The Sleep Charity

Sleep Talkers is currently being delivered in England and we have a network of over 220 Sleep Talker trainers, all providing vital sleep information and advice to the children and young people they work with across the breadth of England.
We have been successful in receiving funding from the National Lottery to extend our existing Sleep Talkers project to organisations working across Wales, allowing us the opportunity to deliver:

• A one day conference for 50 parents and/or professionals focussing on Children with ALN and Disabilities and Sleep
• A two day “Train the Trainer” programme for 25 professionals working with Children with ALN and Disabilities and their families

We are currently busy planning the 1 day conference which will take place on the 18th May in Cardiff. I am actively looking for organisations to access this exciting conference, as well as promote it to other professionals and parents. We have delivered to a huge number of charities across England and I’m hoping you may be interested in attending and able to help me share with your forums and any other organisations.

We have released seats for our 1 day conference and would love to reserve you and those you work with a space! There will only be 100 places available, so if you would like to reserve your spot, please complete the form below:

https://thesleepcharity.typeform.com/to/uwFizELh

The training will be delivered virtually over 2 days (11th & 12th July) and is designed to help delegates to understand more about sleep and improve sleep issues for children with ALN and disabilities.

One staff member per organisation can access the training and will then be trained to deliver our pre-written Sleep Talker course to staff and volunteers. This consists of 4 x 1 hour sessions. The only requirement is that as a trained trainer you will go on to train at least 1 volunteer as a Sleep Talker.

Our aim is to have over 3000 Sleep Talker volunteers across England and Wales. A volunteer could be anyone really (please get in touch if you’re not sure) and this will be an enhancement to their current role. The idea is that if someone mentions sleep in conversation then the Sleep Talker volunteer has some basic sleep knowledge and skills to offer support to that individual through an informal conversation. For example, a parent/carer making drinks at a coffee morning could be trained as a Sleep Talker.

We only have 25 training places available so if this is something you would like to pursue, please complete an expression of interest form to secure your training place. https://thesleepcharity.typeform.com/to/PJhHEBL1