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Helping You To Help Others

Helping You To Help Others
  • Duration:  09:33
  • Filesize:  7.7MB
  • 14-01-2008
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The Intensive Fostering Service at Kibble is designed to provide support and guidance for Foster Carers. We hear from Service manager Lyn Stuart Black about these benefits.

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Social Networking Beyond Music

Social Networking Beyond Music
  • Duration:  09:02
  • Filesize:  7.2MB
  • 03-09-2007
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In part three of the lecture, Neil Ballantyne, Learning Technology Manager, Scottish Institute for Excellence in Social Work and his team, explain how child and youth care professionals can share ideas via their own social networking websites similar to MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.

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Triumph Over Adversity

Triumph Over Adversity
  • Duration:  09:34
  • Filesize:  7.7MB
  • 12-06-2008
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Jason describes some of the challenges he has had to face in care. He and his carer are speaking to Professor Leon Fulcher on behalf of the Foster Care Associates.

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Ice-Screaming Out for Success

Ice-Screaming Out for Success
  • Duration:  10:10
  • Filesize:  8.1MB
  • 10-09-2007
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In the final part of the presentation by Ken Milroy from Aberdeen Foyer, Jim Schorr from Juma Ventures in San Francisco, gives his thoughts on running a Ben and Jerrys franchise. Aberdeen Foyer have begun running a franchise by the famous ice cream brand.

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Range of Services

Range of Services
  • Duration:  03:08
  • Filesize:  2.5MB
  • 27-03-2008
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The Link Group is one of the largest housing associations in Scotland and has a wide range of services for their members and tenants. We look at the Smart Move Peer Education Service in Falkirk. Young volunteers give advice to others about their experience of independent living. We hear from a couple of those volunteers.

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Lessons from Canada

Lessons from Canada
  • Duration:  03:43
  • Filesize:  3MB
  • 19-06-2007
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Learning from other cultures within the child and youth care field is vital for management and staff, to see if improvements to the service can be made. We caught up with Linda Gold, who works in one of Kibble's Units, to see if she found a recent trip to Canada worthwhile.

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Finding the Youth

Finding the Youth
  • Duration:  06:46
  • Filesize:  5.4MB
  • 06-09-2007
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In part seven, we hear more of Juma Ventures extensive history in San Francisco, and Chief Executive Jim Schorr explains how young people come into their programmes.

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Raising the Standard

Raising the Standard
  • Duration:  07:49
  • Filesize:  6.3MB
  • 30-08-2007
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Jeremy Millar, from the Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, and Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, explains why the sector needs to try and improve standards in staff training. He was speaking at a Conference organised by Kibble in Renfrewshire.

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Learning from Experience

Learning from Experience
  • Duration:  05:43
  • Filesize:  4.6MB
  • 07-09-2007
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Learning from experienced social entrepreneurs can be a worthwhile experience. Jim Schorr, Chief Executive of Juma Ventures, takes questions from those involved with social enterprises from all over Scotland. It was part of the event organised by Kibble in Renfrewshire. This is part one of an interesting discussion.

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CYC-net.org... A Common Journey

CYC-net.org... A Common Journey
  • Duration:  07:04
  • Filesize:  5.7MB
  • 05-09-2007
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What is CYC-net.org being used for so far and what is the potential? In part four, Thom Garfat, Co-Director of cyc-net.org discusses how the website is helping link study and practice together.

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