What Newbold Hope can offer Professional Staff


Newbold Hope is a CPD accredited parent-led organisation which works with parents and professionals to reduce anxiety-led difficult and dangerous behaviour in children and young people with disabilities and additional needs. Newbold Hope also works to change the widespread but misguided societal perceptions of blame and judgement towards this group of children and their families.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Newbold Hope has delivered over 400 live online training sessions about behaviour-related topics to parents and professionals, with around 30,000 people attending at least one of the sessions.

The sessions promote The Newbold Hope Approach, which is rooted in kindness, understanding, encouraging open-mindedness and curiosity, with absolutely no judgement or blame.

Newbold Hope also runs an online community for parents of this cohort of children with over12,000 members including some of the most vulnerable families in the UK. There is also a separate community for professionals and support staff who work with this group of families across health, education, social care, and the Third Sector.

The organisation was founded in April 2017 by Yvonne Newbold MBE, a mother with first-hand lived experience of violent and challenging behaviour in her profoundly disabled son with complex medical needs. It now has a small team, all of whom are parents with lived experience who, like Yvonne, successfully moved their children beyond their violent episodes and towards much happier times with a future full of hope.

So far, Newbold Hope has successfully enabled thousands of other families to significantly reduce or completely eradicate difficult and dangerous behaviour in their children.

Evaluations from people attending Newbold Hope online training sessions are consistently positive, and indicate that: -

The helpfulness of the sessions is rated as 9.6 out of 10.

97% of parents attending report that they feel more confident in their parenting skills.

99% of parents would recommend the sessions to other families,

 

Based on messages of thanks and other forms of informal follow-up communications with people 3 or more months after attending one of our training sessions, a very significant number of families have successfully reduced their children’s difficult and dangerous behaviour episodes in terms of intensity, duration and frequency, and report that they are now at much more manageable levels.

Evaluation on the impact of joining the online community group is similarly positive, with 96% of members reporting that family life had become easier since joining the group.

Working as closely as we do with families of children and young people who have a disability or an additional need, as well as presenting with extreme behaviours, Newbold Hope understands the positive impact it can have when staff supporting these families and young people have a good understanding of the underlying causes of these behaviours, and how important it is to offer real support without judgement or blame. All our training is solution-focused and is packed full of practical and doable strategies which have already be proven to work for countless families.

Lived experience informs everything that we do at Newbold Hope, and we are uniquely positioned to deliver robust training that is rooted in real-life and informed by the very real needs of this group of children, young people and their families. We have unrivalled experience in being able to share practical strategies that have already been proven to work with countless other families.


What do we mean by “difficult and dangerous behaviours”?

The difficult and dangerous behaviours that are present in this group of children and young people may include: -


  • Hurting or attempting to hurt others.
  • The use offensive language.
  • Controlling or attempting to control others.
  • Self-harm.
  • Hurting or attempting to hurt animals.
  • Threatening to hurt others.
  • Running away or attempting to run away.
  • Property destruction.
  • Bullying behaviour or ‘picking-on’ other children and young people.
  • Avoiding demands,
  • Sexualised behaviour.
  • Suicide attempts.
  • Suicidal thoughts.
  • Eating disorders.
  • Substance misuse.
  • Alcohol misuse.
  • Being at risk of exploitation in the community.
  • Being at risk of exploitation online such as being groomed.

 

What we can offer

Three online digital community hosted on private Facebook groups, as follows: -

Newbold Hope – Family Support Group – currently we have over 12,000 UK families, all parents of children or young people with a disability or an additional need, who also have violent and challenging behaviour which risks hurting others. https://www.facebook.com/groups/SENDVCBProjFamilies


Newbold Hope – The Dad’s Shed – a separate group just for Dads who meet the same criteria as our Family Support Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/584119188764221


Newbold Hope – Community of Practice – a community for professionals and other staff who work with this cohort of children and young people https://www.facebook.com/groups/2970473609629763


Training for staff

Half day or full day training courses with CPD certification, delivered both online and in person, on the following topics: -


  1. How to reduce extreme behaviour in SEND children and young people.
  2. Understanding anxiety and how to reduce it.
  3. How to boost self-esteem in SEND children and young people.
  4. How to boost communication skills in SEND children and young people.
  5. Understanding childhood controlling behaviour & how to address it.
  6. Understanding demand avoidant behaviour and how to help this group of children and young people to succeed.
  7. Sensory issues, how and why they impact on behaviour, and what you can do to help.
  8. Change transitions and routine, how and why they impact on behaviour and what you can do to help.

 

Two topics can be delivered in a half day, four topics in a full day.


Costs


Please contact Yvonne Newbold for further information: yvonne@yvonnenewbold.com


Please note - slides used in training are not sent out to participants.

 


Coming soon for staff

Online self-study courses on all the above topics.


Topics covered in the staff training can include: -

  • Physical violence towards other people and/or pets
  • Controlling behaviour
  • Demand-avoidant behaviours
  • Self-harm
  • Property destruction
  • Using inappropriate and offensive language
  • How anxiety-led behaviour is caused by distress, confusion, fear and feeling unsafe, not by wilful misconduct
  • How this behaviour is instinctive, beyond a child’s control, and not a “choice”
  • An understanding of anxiety, what it is and how it can present in children
  • Sensory Issues
  • Communication
  • Routines
  • Resistance to change
  • Managing transitions
  • Processing speed
  • Alexithymia
  • Theory of Mind
  • Masking
  • Self-esteem
  • Controlling behaviour
  • Demand-avoidant behaviour
  • Safety strategies to reduce risk to others
  • How to identify the underlying causes of behaviour
  • Why it is important to move away from traditional disciplinary strategies
  • Why it’s nobody’s fault
  • Understanding the damaging impact of blame and judgement
  • The importance of kindness, building trust and connection

 

All our training includes dozens of strategies for managing difficult or dangerous behaviours which have been proven to work in countless families already. 

 

Our website

There are further articles and videos on a range of behaviour topics available on our website. www.newboldhope.org



 The following link takes you to an Introduction of 12 issues children who display difficult or dangerous behaviour may be experiencing.

Read Here

 

 

Testimonials about Newbold Hope’s training

“Yvonne’s training has helped our family in ways other professionals and services haven’t been able to. Yvonne understands our lives and how challenging they can be and has helped me see things through my child’s perspective and think of ways to help him through difficulties rather than see him as challenging. She has brought communities together to support each other and offer solutions and think creatively. My home is a happier, calmer place overall and much of that has been down to the inspiring support and advice that Yvonne and her webinars have given me. It turns your understanding upside down - from challenging behaviour to a child that is finding life challenging- now we can work as a team more and I think ‘what can I do to help my child through this?’ Rather than ‘how can I stop my child behaving like this!?’ From judgement to understanding, and consequences to compassion. It has turned our lives around”

 

“Yvonne and her Newbold Hope methods and her deep fundamental understanding of the causes of violent and challenging behaviour have transformed the lives of my autistic PDA daughter, my adopted daughter who is her sibling, and myself. It is not my child's fault. It's not my parenting. Her basic and overwhelming need is to feel safe. That may manifest in a focus on controlling us, or on what looks like anger and destructiveness, but when I see my darling daughter through the lens Yvonne gave me, I see nothing but a frightened wee girl who needs to feel safe. It has been utterly transformative to look through this lens. I can at last meet her needs, and that enables her to function at a higher level.. Yvonne has been the key in the lock for us. I bless her from my heart. Oh yes, and her book, The Send Parent's Handbook, was a hand reaching out to me in the darkness. I wept several times reading it. It broke that terrible isolation I was in and let me know i was not alone.”


“When I joined Yvonne's training sessions and Facebook support group my daughter was in a desperate state. She would have 7 to 10 meltdowns a day, threaten self-harm, hurt me and others and break things she loved. She is now in a very different place. I have learnt more of what she can and cannot manage, and I have adjusted to understand her way of communicating, rather than expecting her to learn mine. She is much more able to communicate her needs, has a better understanding of herself, and violent episodes is an occasional problem rather than a constant struggle. Our relationship is extremely close, and we can work much more as a team to tackle things. I've massively adjusted my expectations of what we/she can manage, and it's really paid off as she's just so much happier.”


“I’ve watched a couple of Yvonne’s training videos and they have been so useful for me and my family. Yvonne has such a lovely, gentle manner and is very down to earth. She is so kind and respectful of everyone and makes people feel so valued and welcome in her talks. The advice she gives is invaluable and comes from a place of experience, giving such hope to so many families. I run a support group for parents of children with additional needs and always refer them to Yvonne’s webinars and resources when they are struggling as I have found that they’re the only strategies that work with our children. Yvonne everyone else first even though she has such a lot to deal with in her own life and spends so much time and effort making sure everyone else is ok. Her training sessions are informative, entertaining, and practical and easy to listen to. She responds attentively to questions posted by people throughout and follows these up if people need more information. She listens to and asks for feedback so that she can improve on the content and structure of everything she does. I would be lost without Yvonne’s help and advice,


“I have attended a number of Yvonne's training webinars and I have benefitted so much from them all. They are full of insight, compassion, and hope. Yvonne has a wonderfully friendly style putting you at ease and making you feel like you are not alone. Not only does she provide insight into how a child must be feeling, but she also provides practical strategies to enable me to support them to cope better.  Thank you, Yvonne.”


For further information, please contact Yvonne Newbold via email – yvonne@yvonnenewbold.com


Yvonne Newbold MBE

January 2023