Fostering

Highly trained and well supported carers target the emotional and developmental needs of children in specialist placements

Five Rivers provides a comprehensive range of Foster Care, family placements and specalist fostering services in 13 regions throughout England and Ireland.

Our Family Placement Service places emphasis on the individual child’s requirement for long-term well-being supporting and targeting the emotional and developmental needs of children in specialist placements.

Foster carers at Five Rivers have access to a range of specialist support staff, including psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists where needed who provide training in:

• Child Development
• Attachment Theory
• Family Therapy
• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

We seek to ensure a high level of skill and insight in our Foster Carers, teaching them how to create safe, effective environments in which abused and damaged children and young people can have the opportunity to grow, develop and transform their lives.

At Five Rivers we are able to provide direct group work Attachment Psychotherapy with the child and carers.

Where necessary we can also provide counselling and play therapy from qualified experienced practitioners.

Each referral is subject to a thorough matching review, ensuring that the most suitable carer is found for each young person.