Level 2 Certificate in Understanding Adverse Childhood Experiences

Course content

What will I learn?

This course will provide a knowledge and understanding of how 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 fully online adverse childhood experiences course will give you the skills needed to support children and young people affected by adverse experiences. You will gain insight into how to strengthen their resilience and empower them to overcome the challenges they face.

There are 3 units in this course including:

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

This is a marked course which requires short essay style answers to allow your assigned marker to be able to identify that you have understood the skills and knowledge to meet the awarding body standards.

This is a fully online course, you will be emailed with a login to access the course and assessments

What qualifications do I need?

As this course is delivered online it would be beneficial if the candidate had basic competence in IT and the internet.

This course does not require a personal statement.

What can I do after?

This course provides progression to further Level 2 or 3 programmes.

Programme Information

Course Hours – 120

No of Weeks – 20

You could complete in 10 weeks or use the full 20 weeks- it's up to you.

Please be aware that you could be withdrawn from your course if submission dates are vastly overdue. If at any point you are struggling with deadlines you should contact us for an extension which we will assign where possible

On successful completion and confirmation from the awarding body you will receive your qualification e-certificate online which you can print and/or save for your records. Please note a fee may be required if a hard copy certificate is requested.