Building a young person’s emotional know how is critical for their mental health, development and learning. In practice, you need to support young people to find ways to cope with internal and external stress in adaptive and healthy ways.

In this episode, you will be hear from one young person with an experience of living in residential care - Jessica, as well as experienced residential care staff Peter, Tony and Ellia. Finally, we have included two experts in this episode. You will hear from national and international experts on trauma and development Dr Russel Pratt and Kevin Creeden. We hope that their stories and ideas will bring to life this important element of Hope and Healing.