SEND VCB describes children with additional needs who use extreme and complex behaviours to communicate their distress, fears, confusion and anxieties. It stands for Special Educational Needs and Disabilities, Violent and Challenging/Controlling/Complex Behaviours
These behaviours can include: –
- Violence
- Being controlling
- Destruction
- Demand Avoidance
- Absconding
The SEND VCB Project is now launching an online Community of Practice for professionals and support staff who work with children and adults who have additional needs and extreme, complex or otherwise difficult behaviour. It will bring people together from all areas of health, education and social care. Using a Facebook Private Community Group, it will enable the sharing of good practice, ideas, concerns and information within a safe and supportive space. It will be moderated by three experienced SEND VCB family members who also have extensive career backgrounds within health, education and social services.
Yvonne’s advice for parents, carers and professionals regarding young people with SEND VCB is totally life changing. She teaches us that our role is to be caring and compassionate towards our anxious young people and to work with them and be by their side as they try to feel better about themselves
Dr JL, Parent
To join, please follow this link – https://www.facebook.com/groups/COPSENDVCBProj/
- The Project works with parents and professional staff, promoting successful strategies that enable a child’s needs to be met more effectively.
- The SEND VCB Project was established by Yvonne Newbold in April 2017.
- Since then, almost 500 families have seen substantial improvements in their SEND child’s behaviour by using the strategies and support they have found in the Project.
- The children are now calmer, happier and engaging with life, with a future now filled with hope, potential and promise.
- That’s what it’s all about, finding ways to help children become happier about themselves and their environment, because happy children are seldom violent, destructive or difficult.
- Together we can make things better, for the children themselves, their families and for the people who work with them.
- To join, please follow this link, and then answer the questions. We will be launching in early March 2020, but ask to join now, answer the questions and become one of our pioneer members to help us shape this exciting new community. https://www.facebook.com/groups/COPSENDVCBProj/
For more information please email Yvonne Newbold on info@yvonnenewbold.com or message Yvonne and her team on Facebook via The SEND VCB Project – Public Page .
Mother; Author of The Special Parent’s Handbook; Speaker; Trainer; NHS Assembly Member; Advisor, NHS England Learning Disabilities & Autism; National Learning Disabilities and Autism Lifetime Achievement Award, PENNA Outstanding Contribution to Patient Experience Award 2016; LDT Learning Disability Champion Award 2015; HSJ Top 50 Inspirational Women in Healthcare Award 2014
All Yvonne has ever wanted to do was to significantly improve the quality of life of children similar to her own profoundly disabled son, Toby. When she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, this became her bucket list, and since then her tireless passion to work with families and professionals to make things better has taken her all around the country speaking at conferences and running workshops for parents and professionals. She’s a regular contributor on BBC TV and radio, but she is most proud of nearly 500 success stories which are a result of her work to reduce violent episodes in children with additional needs.
To join, please follow this link – https://www.facebook.com/groups/COPSENDVCBProj/
You can find out more about Yvonne’s work with the Project here. https://yvonnenewbold.com/the-send-vcb-project-what-we-do-and-why-it-matters/
