Distance Learning - Adverse Childhood Experiences (Level 2 Certificate) 2024-25

Adverse circumstances can have a negative impact on anyone's life, but children and young people are particularly vulnerable. They might face difficult circumstances such as the death or divorce of parents, domestic violence, or national and international disasters. These types of adverse childhood experiences can have an impact on their development and mental health, which may continue into adulthood and affect their life chances. This course will give you the skills you need to support children and young people affected by adverse childhood experiences. This course will provide you to develop an understanding of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) relevant to your current or future role, it will equip you with basic understanding of techniques for preventing and addressing ACE's in practice. You will gain insight into how to strengthen their resilience and empower them to overcome the challenges they face.

• Exploring childhood and family structures
• Introduction to adverse childhood experiences
• Developing strategies to improve outcomes for children affected by adverse childhood experiences

If you decide to complete this course, you could learn how to support children and/or young people that are affected by adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). After this course, you could unlock new career opportunities, such as;

• Nursery Worker (£14,000 to £24,000)
• Health Play Specialist (£20,329 to £31,533)
• Learning Mentor (£14,500 to £25,000)

Please see the distance learning introductory page to check your eligibility: https://edc.ac.uk/study/distance-learning

• you can complete your course online, by paper or online with paper resources
• we'll process your enrolment, and a tutor will be assigned to support you through your course, their contact details are in the joining instruction email
• an email containing your joining instructions will be sent, this email will contain your start and end date, submission dates. If completing online you will be advised of the weblink and your unique username for you to log into the e-assessor portal. If completing by paper you will still receive a joining instruction email and your paper resources will be posted out to you.
• if you need any guidance on your course content please contact your tutor direct.
• you will receive text reminders throughout your course
• your feedback from your tutor will either be online via e-assessor (located in my portfolio) or via email if completing by paper.

The course starts when you have received your joining instruction email containing your start, submission target dates and tutor contact details.

This course has one assessment and you have 10 weeks from enrolling to complete your course, this duration includes tutor feedback, internal verification and processing.