Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building Resilience - Level 4 Certificate

Essentials

Duration: 1 Year Part-time
Start date: 17th September 2024
End date: 25th February 2025
Day: Tue
Time: 18:00-21:00

Course fees for each year.

Course Content

The issue of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) has shown to feature significantly in subsequent mental health and well-being issues experienced by individuals. An understanding of these issues will assist individuals in supporting those with mental health and well-being issues. The OCN NI Level 4 Certificate in Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building Resilience has been developed to provide an understanding of the nature of ACE, identification of those at risk, and strategies for individuals to assist others, build resilience and address the adverse impact of ACE.

Qualification Objectives

The objectives of the qualification are to enable learners to understand:

• the nature of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) and their impact on society and the individual
• how to respond to Adverse Childhood Experiences by building resilience
• how service delivery can be transformed to develop resilience, and
• the application of holistic self-care and emotional resilience within the workplace

Course Aims

The qualification is targeted at learners who wish to add to their knowledge and skills in the area of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Assessment Methods

Grading for this qualification is pass/fail. 

There are no specific entry requirements for this qualification although learners should be at least 18 years old to complete the qualification and have a good standard of English to complete assignments.

The OCN NI Level 4 Certificate in Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences and Building Resilience will allow learners to progress to higher level qualifications in the health and social care sector, and/or support career development.