Foster Carer Training Services

Five Rivers works from a humanistic perspective; that is by trying to understand and value the relationships between people that help to influence behaviour and change.

Our professional staff and foster carers use techniques from a number of different theoretical bases and professionals who are able to offer therapeutic services.

All our staff and foster carers recognise the importance of working in a therapeutic manner, and we prioritise training in understanding attachment issues.

Five Rivers places a high priority in training its staff and foster carers in relation to attachment and the behaviours that are associated with this. This method is an essential tool in maintaining successful placements.

Our aim is to provide an accepting and emotionally warm family environment for children to live in, whilst at the same time offering clearly defined programmes of care. Where necessary and agreed, specific therapeutic work will be undertaken with individual children. Usually such work will be time limited, have clearly identified goals and be contractual in nature. Costs for these services are normally negotiated between responsible authorities and Five Rivers.

Children whose lives have been disrupted, who have been mistreated or who have not had the opportunities to grow and develop as most children do, require time and security to develop a sense of identity and self worth in order to grow and develop with confidence.

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