The Adult-Child Well-Being ‘I Matter’ Framework
Solid Foundations for Positive Change
From Confusion to Clarity At Home, at School and in the Community
When it comes to your children and young people, what is your biggest concern?
I Matter Framework Training
We work with professionals and parents-carers and young people who are overwhelmed but want to support positive change and healthier, happier outcomes and results in spite of many real challenges.
We provide high quality training and coaching that helps you strengthen yourself in your own key role in bringing about more of the caring, informed and rewarding relationships that we all want.
The I Matter Framework started out as a project trying to understand the implications of a wide research literature relevant to improving outcomes for children. The goal was to organise complex ideas into a practical integrated teachable whole, suitable for a wide range of starting points so as to create a shared language to support better decision making.
The I Matter Framework is now offered to those looking for new ways forward as a thought provoking high quality CPD accredited training which helps adults think deeply about well-being and relationships at school and at home as key to the change process. This is a training designed for the most challenging times
The good news is that with discussion and teamwork its never too late to make a difference – in families, in schools and in our shared environment.
Starting with YOU and your role – we start with the local and think global!
What does the evidence say?
The I Matter Framework clearly demonstrates that if we want to improve outcomes for children in education, mental health, physical health, and crime we need to shift our focus away from what is wrong with the child and towards: i) recognising stress states, ii) adult-child relationship health, iii) community and partnership working and iv) support for the foundations of healthy social emotional development in all children AND adults. These are not YET our priorities in our polices and practices. So we want to see this change.
Through a community and skills building process – we help you to bridge ‘the missing link’
Helping Build Stronger Supportive Communities
Join in…
Professional CPD for Education and Health
Take part in a carefully structured I Matter learning journey. The I Matter Framework offers you a big picture integrated understanding of the evidence base critical to outcomes for children and families
Join the I Matter Training Community
Join a supportive community of professionals who want to see a different approach to the way we care for children and families. Get support to work with others in your locality over a
Build Networks to Support Children and Families
Help build more supportive empowering networks for the children and families that you work with. Discover I Matter and reflect on your own key experiences and on next steps forward.
If I had understood these ideas earlier I could have been a lot more effective!
Professional and ParentIF WE ARE COMMITTED TO HELPING CHILDREN WE CANNOT IGNORE THE NEEDS OF THE ADULTS – UNDERSTANDING MATTERS
About the I Matter Training Company
You became an education or health professional to be in the classroom or clinic doing what you love with children and famillies! However, these days work with children and families brings many issues like:
- Where do I go to ensure families and children get the help they need?
- Where can I find the training I need, or that my team need?
- How do we choose between different approaches?
- What can we do ourselves in our community to make a difference?
- Could I perhaps make a contribution? What could I do?
I’m Cathy Betoin, the founder of the I Matter Framework Training Company, a Kendal based social enterprise. I’m a Clinical Psychologist, an experienced primary teacher and a parent. As a company we work with schools and communities to help you train your staff, respond to the missing link and transform practices.
The training presents well established psychological theory and research evidence in a carefully designed structured training process, providing an engaging way of supporting a positive change process for children families and communities.
Get Started with the I Matter Framework: Explore why healthy adult-child relationships and healthy communities matter for mental health, AND climate change....at home and in school. Then.. Take Stock and Go for Results
YES PLEASE! I WANT TO LEARN MOREOur Feedback and Evidence of Impact
Helping ensure that key psychological research evidence is understood and implemented in everyday practice in schools and with children and family practice is what we are about. We carefully gather a variety of forms of evidence.
Professional Impact Study
We have recently embarked on a professional impact sending a follow-up questionnaire to those who completed I Matter Training over 6 months ago. The first results have been collated and we are now planning the next stage. We are very encouraged!
Parent Progress
When I started on this course I was a minus minus minus – now I am a 6 – sometimes even a 7. The other day we had the first journey to school in which everyone got on well and didn’t scream at each other. It was fantastic!
Reflections of a Headteacher
‘I stood at the school gate after your training and saw it all. I saw children going through a personality change as they left our premises and it wasn’t just a few families. Something is off track in the adult-child relationship. We want to find a way to address this’
Feedback from a GP
I thought I was doing this course for professional reasons, but my relationship with my own child has deepened so much as a result of what I have been learning through I Matter training. Thank you!
Feedback from a Teaching Assistant
Recent TA feedback: There has been such a change. He was totally shut down and not interacting. 1 year on he is playing with other children in the playground and even helping others out. I love working with him! Joined up home-school program for an adopted child aged 7yrs with questions regarding autism
Feedback from a Social Worker
I can see how without the right training or understanding it is easy as a carer or professional working with a complex child to start to feel very negative feelings. I used to work in residential care however I had no training, it left me feeling emotionally drained, stressed, like a failure. Sometimes my responses won’t have been great. My current concern is that many parents or professional carers are clearly still not getting the training they need to manage their own feelings and responses when caring for children or adults with complex needs.
I Matter Intensive Conference – 20th May
Coming soon - a chance for a 1 day intensive immersion in the I Matter Framework with opportunities to progress to completion of the online course and work towards becoming an I Matter school CLICK HERE
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Recent News and What’s Coming Up
There are lots of interesting things happening – here are just a taster.
Professional Impact Study
We have recently embarked on a professional impact sending a follow-up questionnaire to those who completed I Matter Training over 6 months ago. The first results have been collated and we are now planning the next stage. We are very encouraged!
Parent Progress
When I started on this course I was a minus minus minus – now I am a 6 – sometimes even a 7. The other day we had the first journey to school in which everyone got on well and didn’t scream at each other. It was fantastic!
Reflections of a Headteacher
‘I stood at the school gate after your training and saw it all. I saw children going through a personality change as they left our premises and it wasn’t just a few families. Something is off track in the adult-child relationship. We want to find a way to address this’
Feedback from a GP
I thought I was doing this course for professional reasons, but my relationship with my own child has deepened so much as a result of what I have been learning through I Matter training. Thank you!
Feedback from a Teaching Assistant
Recent TA feedback: There has been such a change. He was totally shut down and not interacting. 1 year on he is playing with other children in the playground and even helping others out. I love working with him! Joined up home-school program for an adopted child aged 7yrs with questions regarding autism
Feedback from a Social Worker
I can see how without the right training or understanding it is easy as a carer or professional working with a complex child to start to feel very negative feelings. I used to work in residential care however I had no training, it left me feeling emotionally drained, stressed, like a failure. Sometimes my responses won’t have been great. My current concern is that many parents or professional carers are clearly still not getting the training they need to manage their own feelings and responses when caring for children or adults with complex needs.
I Matter Intensive Conference – 20th May
Coming soon - a chance for a 1 day intensive immersion in the I Matter Framework with opportunities to progress to completion of the online course and work towards becoming an I Matter school CLICK HERE
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Partners and Resources
We help professionals. parents and young people work together better and feel less stressed How? By helping them see things differently.
Remember, if you are too busy and too stressed to make time to learn about your key role, you will always be too busy and too stressed!
Thank you for your interest!
Dr Cathy Betoin
Clinical Psychologist, Teacher and Parent
