Courses & Training

Our training services draw on extensive professional contact with a wide range of refugees and the professionals who work with them.

We are experienced in working with the issues raised by contact with clients who have had experience of trauma that include: torture, murder, orphan street children, child soldiers, unaccompanied minors, honour killing threats, political assassination, and survivors and witnesses of extreme violence and sexual assault. Our services integrate experience of the problems of working across cultural differences and the nature of clients' anxiety whilst in the asylum process

Consultancy and Therapy
We offer services to colleagues working with clients engaged in the asylum process. This service is a professional consultancy supporting colleagues affected by the intellectual, emotional and psychological impact of providing services to anxious and distressed clients. This service is currently offered to solicitors, social workers, translators, psychotherapists, counsellors, teachers, and outreach workers.

Training and Workshops
We also offer training and workshops to support colleagues in the work that they do. Our work can be tailored to the needs of your staff and the issues raised by the client group that they work with. Some recent examples of these have included:

• Training and workshops for education professionals which cover the  different backgrounds to educational expectations and address behavioral issues.
• Resources for fellow therapists to help them explore, understand and work with the challenges that arise when providing therapy for this diverse client group.
• Access to our database of cultural, political and religious situations in countries of origin.

What we can do for you and your organisation
We don't sell standard courses or services, we prefer to first understand your needs and then develop a strategy that will meet your requirements. We would love to talk to you about your organisation and its challenges. To talk to us further about how we can help please call us on 0115 914 0545 or send us an email: training@sankofafoundation.org.uk

Our professional consultancy has a fee-scale available on request. The income from these activities is used to support our no-charge work with refugees and their families.

Sankofa Foundation has worked with:

• Childrens Society (Nottingham)
• Social Services (Nottingham)
• Multi-Agency Forum for Children from Abroad
• Pediatricians
• Post Natal Psychiatric Unit
• Womens Counselling Centre (Sheffield)
• BAPCA Conference
• Connexions
• Broxtowe College
• Person Centred Practitioners for Social Change
• Workshop on sexual health needs for refugees
• Radcliffe Publishing - Counselling Victims of Warfare by Richard Bryant-Jefferies with a foreword by Miriam Hollis, founder of the Sankofa Foundation.