Severe Learning Disabilities/Low Functioning Autism
We believe everyone should have the opportunity to live a healthy, active, and fulfilling life, regardless of their background or disability. The aim of our homes is to provide a safe and stimulating environment with structure routine that supports preparation and independence for adult life. We offer a broad range of opportunities for all the children/young people to participate in education, leisure and recreational activities. Our objective will be to maximise their potential through opportunities for personal growth and to provide fun and enjoyment, whilst also creating experiences and memories. Leisure and recreational activities will be as inclusive as possible through participation in activities and at venues accessed by other children living in the community. Young people are encouraged to take part in both group and individual activities which not only consider their ethnicity, culture, language, religion, interests and abilities but also help to widen and deepen a young person’s experience of diversity. The health and well-being of children and young people looked after is of prime importance. We will work alongside parents, community nurses, social workers, behavioural therapists, teachers and other professionals involved with the health and welfare of the child or young person to ensure that children and young people live in a healthy environment, their health needs are identified, and services are provided to meet them.
We firmly believe that children and young people can recover from traumatic and painful life experiences. To facilitate their healing journey, we provide expert care and support. Our dedicated team ensures that the necessary resources are available to help children achieve their planned objectives.
We work collaboratively with other professionals and organisations to create a comprehensive support.
The experience and training of our staff team enables us to be specific about the needs of each child or young person we accommodate. We can make accurate assessments and tailor specific ‘Care Plans’ seeking well defined outcomes. This allows us to offer the child or young person opportunities to change unhappy internal feelings, confusion, and unhealthy thought processes.
We are fully committed to ensuring that we support and empower all our children through this process. These processes are done with a multiagency approach, involving the parent(s), child or young person, social workers, and other involved professionals to ensure that a holistic approach is met for the child.
To do so they must rely on the people around them having the expertise and support to encourage and ‘hold’ them through their healing process. We appreciate the complexities of this work and our responsibilities to ensure that once a child/young person is placed with us, the resources to reach planned objectives are available Children and young people, at times, are unable to live with their birth families for a variety of reasons including for their protection from harm. The first goal is to try to achieve reunification as quickly and safely as possible. Child welfare agencies commonly implement multifaceted strategies that build on strengths and address concerns. Returning children home often requires intensive, family-centred services to support a safe and stable family.
Reunifying a child with his or her birth parents is not a one-time event. Rather, it is a process involving the reintegration of the child into a family environment that may have changed significantly from the environment that the child left. Reunification requires a range of appropriate services and supports from the point that a child first enters care and beyond the return home, to meet the child and family’s needs. Strong engagement and collaboration with the family and amongst the child and family services system are also necessary to address the protective concerns to make the process of reunification possible.
To do so they must rely on the people around them having the expertise and support to encourage and ‘hold’ them through their healing process.
We appreciate the complexities of this work and our responsibilities to ensure that once a child/young person is placed with us, the resources to reach planned objectives are available.