Between the Lines - Recovery from Trauma & Post Traumatic Growth
Event Information
About this event
Your Life Your Story is a small charity that brings together both care experienced adults and caregivers together in recognition of the value and importance of those shared connections. Saira Jayne is a member of this diverse community and a trustee.
This event offers a unique insight into the impact of early life trauma across the life cycle. It will provide an opportunity to explore childhood adversity through an adult lens and to develop insight into recovery and post-traumatic growth.
It is a must-attend event for social workers, caregivers, managers, academics, and students.
Organiser Amanda Knowles MBE
Organiser of Between the Lines - Recovery from Trauma & Post Traumatic Growth
Amanda Knowles MBE was just 18 years old when she became a housemother in a local authority children’s home. She has been working with care experienced children for 45 years as a caregiver in various settings including children’s residential care, fostering, social work and supported accommodation for care leavers.
In 2017 Amanda organised the first Your Life Your Story Event to amplify the voices of care experienced adults and caregivers through storytelling. All proceeds from this workshop will fund future Your Life Your Story Events. Your Life Your Story is home to a hugely diverse community with a shared identity, as our collective voice grows louder, so does our determination to make a positive contrbution to improving services for vulnerable children and the adults they become through mutually rewarding relationships reclaimed through the shared narrative of lived experience. www.ylys.org.uk
