13. Yvonne Newbold MBE - founder of Newbold Hope

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Today, I'm talking to my good friend Yvonne Newbold, MBE, founder of Newbold Hope. Smashing taboos and giving hope to families, reducing anxiety-led difficult and dangerous behaviours in children and young people with additional needs and disabilities.
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Yvonne’s Xmas Special
An online training webinar, full of tips, tricks and strategies that can keep things much calmer and happier for the whole family over Xmas

Newbold Hope – Support Group for Families - Our private Facebook Group For families of SEND children with Violent and Challenging Behaviour (VCB)

Newbold Hope – Community of Practice - Our private Facebook Group for staff who work with this group of children and their families

Newbold Hope – Distressed Behaviour Information and Support - Our public Facebook Page sharing information related to difficult and dangerous behaviours in children with additional needs and disabilities. https://www.facebook.com/TheSENDVCBProject/

Newbold Hope public Facebook Page sharing more general disability information https://www.facebook.com/thespecialparentshandbook/

Follow us on Twitter - @NewboldHopeVCB ; Instagram - @newbold.hope

Further info about how to reduce violent, difficult or dangerous behaviour in children with disabilities and additional needs –

Resource page of Yvonne's website, with articles and videos to support families and professionals of children with additional needs who also have extreme behaviour

Start with Basics or Top 10 Videos

Links to the research studies into the prevalence of violent and challenging behaviour

Physical aggression in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.
Facebook Community Accelerator Programme – UK Cohort
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Iolo Edwards, High Fashion Talk

Victoria Marie, Get Your Belly Out

Jaidee, Black Owned Economy

Neil Thompson, The Delegate Wranglers

Kelly Pickard-Smith, Women in Academia Support Group

Louise Davies, Food Teacher’s Centre UK

Nafisa Rahimi, Muslim Mamas

Claire Belkind, Family Lowdown
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Chapters

1. Training courses for professionals (00:00:00)

2. The power of connecting online (00:02:18)

3. Yvonne - and Toby's - story. How it all began (00:02:58)

4. Rare conditions - a lonely place (00:03:32)

5. Toby exceeded expectations - his life now, aged 27 (00:05:27)

6. The difficult years - violent and challenging behaviour (00:07:10)

7. A taboo subject - no help available. Blame, shame and judgement. (00:08:10)

8. Unlocking the underlying cause - anxiety (00:09:43)

9. Breakthrough! (00:11:20)

10. The devastating effect on parents (00:12:15)

11. Walking on air - but only for five days! Yvonne's cancer and terminal diagnosis (00:13:20)

12. Bucket list - ONE thing - improve quality of life for other families (00:16:15)

13. Living in extra time - and rocking it! (00:16:55)

14. Making a difference! Helping famililies , 'one starfish at a time'. Awesome! (00:17:45)

15. How did Yvonne do this? A book, conferences, speaker events, training events ... (00:18:50)

16. Breaking the taboo - on Woman's Hour. Talking about Toby's behaviour for the first time - ever. (00:19:50)

17. The floodgates open. SO many other families stepping out of the closet ... (00:21:20)

18. These people need to come together - and be heard! (00:22:27)

19. Yvonne's 0-60mph in 4 weeks conference, sponsored by Whose Shoes :) (00:23:12)

20. Bonkers! Oversubscribed! Harrowing! (00:25:12)

21. OMG, we are NOT alone! Being hurt by your own child. Hugging and crying. (00:26:00)

22. Let's set up a Facebook group! New learning , new understanding of behaviours (00:26:26)

23. NINJA parents - the very opposite of how they are viewed in society (00:27:30)

24. Facebook group grows - now nearly 10,000 members. Workshops and more. (00:29:03)

25. Can we keep doing this in the pandemic? (00:29:29)

26. Vulnerable families were abandoned. All lifelines cut. (00:30:23)

27. Despair. "I HAD to do something" ... 250 live webinars (while living with cancer!) (00:30:48)

28. Yvonne’s dedication is awesome! (00:31:30)

29. Reaching 20,000 people - the pandemic has brought new opportunities (00:32:22)

30. Reaching whole families - siblings not losing years of childhood; children finding meaning, NOT the criminal justice system (00:34:30)

31. Becoming sustainable (00:35:39)

32. Support from Facebook! The groups making the most social impact (00:38:10)

33. Launch of Newbold Hope (00:40:16)

34. Stay curious, be kind (00:40:43)

35. Next steps - walking with the families, offering more support (00:41:37)

36. Top 10 webinars for parents - and slowing things down! (00:43:00)

37. Training courses for professionals - and E-books! (00:43:45)

38. 5 years on - another conference. And Gill to be guest of honour! (00:44:47)

39. Helping parents feel good about themselves (00:47:08)

40. And then the magic happens - and it is so rewarding (00:49:04)

41. Making people feel special - like Rachael Grimaldi (00:50:17)

42. Peer support within the group (00:51:33)

43. Graduating! Success stories! (00:52:10)

44. Research findings. 240,000 families in the UK still need this support (00:52:44)

45. Raising awareness and building the networks (00:55:31)

46. Shoutout to the other UK Facebook super groups (00:56:11)

47. Teamwork makes the dream work (00:58:16)