Online International Consultancy Service
Service/Program Development for Organizations who Work with Traumatized Children and Young People
Client Testimonials
“I have had the pleasure to work collaboratively with Patrick Tomlinson Associates throughout 2010 and 2011. The key to the success of the work has been the way we have established a strong working relationship across international boundaries. Patrick has brought a variety of essential skills to the projects that we have worked on. He has demonstrated great knowledge and expertise, reliability, high quality work, and has always delivered on time. His service has been very productive and cost effective, due to his ability to systematically work through any potential challenges that would take a less evolved individual many additional months.
We have been providing therapeutic programs for traumatized children and young people at the Lighthouse Foundation for over 20 years. We are now in a position where we are ready to achieve our strategic aim of transferring our practice model to organisations across Australia and then internationally, thanks to the enormous contribution of Patrick Tomlinson.”
Rudy Gonzalez
Director Clinical Care Services and Program Development, Lighthouse Foundation, Australia
“I am leading a 3 year research project funded by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. We are researching worldwide, effective approaches in working with traumatized children in residential and foster care. Having attended a talk by Patrick Tomlinson 5 years ago at the ISPCAN international conference about his work with traumatized children at SACCS (www.saccs.co.uk), I decided to seek his assistance. I have been consulting with him by email, which has been a helpful way for me to communicate. His advice and assistance has been so great, helpful, reliable, prompt, kind and warm and fit to Japanese society.” Hisayo Kaihara, MD (Child Psychiatrist)
“I have worked with Patrick in developing learning materials and other documents conceptualizing models of practice. He has an excellent knowledge base and a high level of skill in taking plans forward. He is highly respected in his field and has a wealth of expertise to offer in therapeutic work with children and management.” Neil Thompson, PhD, DLitt
Overall Objectives
The online consultancy service is led by Patrick Tomlinson. His experience spans from 1985, working as a strategic director, operational manager, clinician and author. He specializes in program design and development for children and young people who have been traumatized by abuse and neglect, and who require specialist therapeutic residential or foster care services.
Recently this service has been provided to the Lighthouse Foundation in Australia (www.lighthousefoundation.org.au). It has assisted the organization to conceptualize and document their model of practice in work with traumatized, homeless young people. It has also led to the publication of a book:
Barton, S., Gonzalez, R. and Tomlinson, P. (September, 2011) Therapeutic Residential Care for Children and Young People: An Attachment and Trauma-informed Model for Practice London and Philadelphia: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
More information about the book on the Publications page
Patrick Tomlinson Associates have found through experience that a significant level of consultancy can be provided online. The work is carried out using a combination of email correspondence and Skype meetings. The aim is to offer online consultancy advice and support to organizations and individuals, in a flexible, focused and cost effective manner. The online service can be combined with face-to-face consultancy.
The service can also be offered in relation to any of PTA’s consultancy services including,
- Program Development – reviewing, designing and documenting programs and other aspects of development.
- Writing Services – writing of policy documents and guidelines, training materials, articles/papers and books for publication.
- The Development of Outcomes Based Approaches – including assessment and planning tools.
Outcomes and Benefits
- To improve the quality of organizational performance and cost efficiency.
- Flexible scheduling options – using email, telephone and Skype. The approach enables organisations to remain flexible and efficient, tailoring the service according to need.
- Convenient – schedule and conduct a session from anywhere.
- Save time and money - no travel and other expenses. The online service is green and reduces your carbon footprint.
- Client focused - sessions can be as short or as long as necessary. On occasions it may just involve a question needing some timely advice. This has the advantage of focusing entirely on the work in hand and not creating unnecessarily prolonged meetings.
- A practical approach to practical problems, which is performance orientated.
- Extensive knowledge and expertise – made quickly accessible.
Format of the Online Consultancy Service
We will design our consultancy service to suit your organizational requirements - working in collaboration with you to identify objectives and the focus of the consultancy, including targets, timescales and costs.
The service can be tailored to your specific requirements and over any time duration. We have a flexible pricing structure and discounts are offered for more intensive and longer term work.
Contact us if you are interested in this service and have any questions.