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Therapeutic fostering is designed to support children and young people who have experienced significant trauma. These children need more than just a safe home - they require an environment that meets their emotional, psychological, and developmental needs through focused support. We train our carers to practice therapeutic fostering.
Therapeutic fostering relies on compassion, empathy, respect and understanding what contributes to a child's behaviour. Carers need to offer consistency, security and an emotionally secure relationship.
We also recognise that it is important that carers receive the support needed to be able to offer this. You will work as part of a specialist team and should feel able to ask for help and support when needed.
Why therapeutic fostering is important
It offers children who have experienced significant trauma the chance to form stable and secure relationships and learn to be a child again.
Children are more prepared for adulthood as trust is rebuilt, coping mechanisms are developed, and emotional resilience is fostered.
Through specialist training and support, carers gain a greater understanding of child development and can make more of a positive impact on Herefordshire's young people.
How Safe Connections helps
Delivered by Meadows Psychology Service, a centre of excellence for trauma informed practice, Safe Connections provides targeted therapeutic fostering intervention to Herefordshire's carers and children.
Their staff provide foster carers with in-depth training on therapeutic techniques, helping them understand trauma and develop effective strategies to support children. Each child's care is specifically tailored to their individual needs.
A team of experienced therapists, educational psychologists, and support staff offer ongoing supervision and guidance to foster carers, ensuring they feel supported. Interventions can be made at any point to create the best outcomes for children and carers.
Working with Safe Connections' wraparound care helps to give children and their carers the support needed, to help a child through challenges and to reach their full potential.
What our carers say
"I've been supported by Safe Connections for four years. During that time they have provided me with valuable insights into childhood trauma and how it can manifest. This has given me a better understanding of the teenage brain, and equipped me with the tools needed to help nurture and guide traumatised teenagers through the complexities of life.
I couldn't do what I do without them".
Jayne, Herefordshire Council foster carer.