Their Own Nurture Carers

Every child in our care has access to their own nurture carer(s). Our nurture carers are trained in areas of trauma, attachment and neuropsychological methods to support children with adverse childhood experiences. The nurture carers use methods which support their child’s brain functioning so that they can support them directly and on a day to day basis with areas such as anxiety management, regulating behaviours and managing hypervigilance.

Clinical Assessment And Outcomes

We provide a full clinical assessment of every child placed with us so we can explore their strengths, risks and needs. We assess our children over a 12 week period and let these findings guide their therapeutic care plan and clinical requirements. We regularly monitor and re-assess our children so we can track their progress and refine our support to help them in their journey.

Therapy Access

All our children have access to therapy wherever this fits their clinical need. All our therapies are Trauma Informed and include modalities of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP), Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), Theraputic Life Story (TLS) and Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (T-CBT). In addition, we draw upon Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT) informed methods and Trauma-Informed Yoga.

Therapeutically Led Specialist Training

Every member of our nurture care team has undertaken our in-house training programme. This allows us to provide our team with the specialist training they need to work with traumatised children, to understand how and why therapeutic parenting is essential and to be confident in using our PACE based methods (playfulness, acceptance, curiosity and empathy).

Reflective Practice Sessions For Our Teams

We provide clinically led reflective practice sessions for our nurture team. This allows our care team to openly and safely explore best practice, use and build on their reflective practice skills and develop their skills to an enhanced level.

Nurture Team Well-Being Sessions

We provide our nurture team with access to monthly well-being sessions for them. These often incorporate mindfulness and relaxation as well as self-care and wellness.