Training in Trauma and ACEs for all adults working with children who have suffered from abuse and trauma in schools, colleges and children's homes.
Who We Are
ACE Training was set up by Brian Padden to train adults working with vulnerable children in schools, colleges and children's homes how to support children with ACES and improve their life chances.
Background
Since 2007 Brian has gained a wealth of experience working with children. Initially as an FA football coach in grassroots football coaching football to boys and girls from 4 year old to 17 year olds. He has also worked as a sports coach in primary and secondary schools teaching PE and delivering after school sports.
Brian is qualified in counselling, child counselling, coaching and mentoring and has used these skills and extensive experience to develop mentoring activities which have helped hundreds of children across the country with emotional and low-level mental health problems.
This role developed in to mentoring children, he has won several awards as Regional and National Health Mentor and was nominated for the National Mentoring Awards Finals in 2019. From the hundreds of nominations received, Brian was delighted to be shortlisted as a finalist in the school mentor of the year category, and his mentoring programme won the National School Mentoring Scheme.
His interest in ACES and trauma was sparked whilst studying for a Master’s Degree at Newman University where he undertook a research project into the understanding and awareness of ACES in primary schools.
Since setting up ACE Training, we have supported 100's of professionals working with vulnerable children. These have gone on to support 1000's of children.
Many of the people we have trained have realised that they too have been impacted by ACES, and have sougth their own support.
“Adverse Childhood Experiences and trauma are having a devastating effect on children’s lives in every school in the UK, yet the awareness of it in minimal. Through my own personal experience and through the work I have done with vulnerable children over the past few years, I know that training the right people to be trauma-informed will make a huge difference to the lives and futures of very damaged and frightened children." Brian Padden
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