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Our most popular Creative Life Story Work resources

Our most popular Creative Life Story Work resources for social workers, foster carers, Therapeutic Life Story Workers, and anyone who works with care-experienced children and young people.

Life story work resources

Every month we publish new life story work ideas, tools and information – all designed to help you deliver better life story work.

Here’s a run-down of our most popular Creative Life Story Work resources for social workers, foster carers, Therapeutic Life Story Workers, and anyone who works with care-experienced children and young people.

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1) Toolkit: Life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people

Created in partnership with Children and Families Across Borders and Therapeutic Life Story Work International, this family of resources helps you deliver life story work with refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people.

Access the toolkit>> 

2) Podcast episode: Professor Richard Rose on attachment and trauma

In this episode of the Creative Life Story Work podcast, you’ll hear from Professor Richard Rose on how early experiences of attachment and trauma can affect children and young people later in life.

Listen to our interview with Richard Rose>>

3) Article: Why is life story work important?

Find out about the aims of life story work, how it benefits children and young people, and what makes ‘good’ life story work, in this article by Joanne Stoddart, our local authority specialist.

Read the article>>

4) Article: Think, Feel, Do Sensory Bears

Find out how you can use Think, Feel, Do Sensory Bears to support regulation, explore feelings, and facilitate conversations.

Read more about Think, Feel, Do Bears>>

5) Article: Life story books and later life letters

What is a life story book and a later life letter? Find out in this article by local authority expert, Joanne Stoddart.

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