Supporting adolescents in care through low-intensity life story work

Adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work describes the day-to-day ways carers – rather than specialist professionals – can celebrate and record positive everyday experiences in a flexible, ongoing way.

Join an open access webinar to explore the importance of embedding this approach in work with adolescents in care.

This webinar will share the latest insights from the LIMITLESS research programme, led by Dr Simon P Hammond from the University of East Anglia. The research highlights why adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work is needed and what impactful practice in this area looks like.

Dr Hammond and members of the research team will be joined by lived experience champions to introduce Spark – a set of evidence-based resources co-designed with care-experienced young people. The team will share key messages from the pilot phase of the work, involving adolescents and carers across England.

There will also be an opportunity to learn about how local areas, practitioners and foster carers can take part in the next part of the LIMITLESS research programme that will further test these resources.

Learning outcomes

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Understand what adolescent-focused low-intensity life story work is and why it matters for young people and carers.
• Discover what good everyday life story practice looks like, based on the latest research.
• Learn more about Spark - a new set of resources co-designed with care-experienced young people - and how it can support life story work with teens and carers.
• Consider how you and your organisation can get involved in further testing Spark in the next stage of the LIMITLESS research programme.