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  • Community Care editors and expert guests discuss the latest research, theories and practice issues, and look at what they mean for social workers.
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  • Learn on the go: Jenny Molloy on the adult legacy of her childhood trauma

    Learn on the go: Jenny Molloy on the adult legacy of her childhood trauma
    Mar 26 2024
    Welcome to Learn On The Go, the podcast from Community Care Inform where we discuss research, theories and practice issues and look at what they mean for social care practitioners.

    In this episode we talk to Jenny Molloy, motivational speaker, trainer, care leaver and bestselling author of three books with a fourth about to be published.

    Her first book, Hackney Child, written under the pen name Hope Daniels, describes Jenny’s childhood and how at the age of nine she walked into Stoke Newington police station with her two younger brothers and asked that they be taken into care. Both their parents were addicted to alcohol, their mother was a sex worker, and they’d experienced neglect, malnourishment and poverty.

    When she was 19, Jenny decided to read her social services files, where she discovered that both her parents had also been in care and had experienced traumatic childhoods. So it is testament to Jenny’s strength of character that she not only conquered her own alcohol addiction, but achieved her childhood dream for her future: that her children be raised in a safe, loving, family home and have a "normal life", breaking the cycle of children in care having their children go into care.

    Ordinarily, Jenny talks and trains about life as a child in care, and issues around care leavers and childhood trauma. On this occasion, Jenny is talking about how childhood trauma can play out in adulthood, and how she relapsed and then recovered when it happened to her.

    We do want to give a content warning: Jenny talks about her attempted suicide, being sectioned, and time in a psychiatric hospital.

    We know it can be difficult to hear about people’s trauma so we’d like to remind you to practise self-care and use supervision and peer support if this has brought up anything difficult for you.

    And if you’ve been affected by this episode, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123.

    During the interview, Jenny references the Lambeth Children's Homes Redress Scheme, which you can read about here. And she also mentions the National Youth Advocacy Service (NYAS).

    The questions were asked by Natalie Valios, senior content editor at Community Care Inform Adults.

    0:02:37.3 - The three triggers

    0:10:10 - The psychiatric hospital

    0:17:49.8 - Recovery

    0:20:53.1 - Adult mental health services

    0:27:36.9 - Healing

    0:31:23.7 - Advice for social workers

    0:33:41.4 - The future

    0:37:05.8 - Hope
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    39 mins
  • Mothers' experiences of domestic abuse and social work

    Mothers' experiences of domestic abuse and social work
    Feb 8 2024
    In this episode, Helen, a facilitator of The Freedom Programme which supports victms and survivors of domestic abuse, and two other mothers with lived experience spoke to Jenny Molloy, bestselling author, motivational speaker and care leaver about their experiences with children's services and what support is most helpful for people in abusive relationships. The conversation was recorded on location at Trevi, the charity that supports women and children.

    As well as community support for women and children, Trevi runs Jasmine's Recovery Centre, a residential drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre exclusively for mothers and their children. We recorded a separate episode about mothers experiences of social work connected to substance use. You'll find the episode in the podcast feed.

    Full transcripts of both episodes and supporting materials are available to Community Care Inform subscribers at ccinform.co.uk.
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    19 mins
  • Mothers' experiences of addiction and social work

    Mothers' experiences of addiction and social work
    Feb 8 2024
    In this episode, Helen, Vicky and Hannah, spoke to Jenny Molloy, bestselling author, motivational speaker and care leaver about their experiences of children's services as mothers using, and in recovery from, drugs and alcohol. They share what did and didn't help them, and what they would like social workers to understans.

    The conversation was recorded on location at Jasmine Mother's Recovery Centre, part of Trevi, the charity that supports women and children.

    Find out more about the centre and Trevi's work here: https://trevi.org.uk/services/jasmine-mothers-recovery/

    Some of the women touch on the fact that many women who have experienced trauma and drug and acohol addiction have been in abusive relationships. We recorded a separate episode about mothers experiences of social work connected to domestic abuse. You'll find the episode in the podcast feed.

    Full transcripts of both episodes and supporting materials are available to Community Care Inform subscribers at ccinform.co.uk.

    Content warnings. While these are stories with positive outcomes, there are brief mentions of attempted suicide, domestic abuse, difficult childbirth, and women also speak about their older children being removed.

    We’d encourage you to use supervision and peer support if this episode brings up anything difficult for you, and generally to look after yourself while listening.
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    47 mins
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