Benefits And Our Offering
- What does training for foster carers usually involve?
- What are the benefits of training for foster carers?
- What training do we offer our foster carers?
At Changing Futures, our goal is to provide our foster parents with all the support and advice they need to provide unmatched care for vulnerable children and young people. Today, we wanted to run through what training for foster carers usually involves, its benefits and the training we offer to ensure you are confident and fully equipped to get started on your fostering journey.
What Does Training For Foster Carers Usually Involve?
Training for foster carers varies across different fostering agencies, but the same principles and aspects tend to be covered in all. The most important aspects of foster training include:
- Understanding and sympathising with child trauma
- Understanding child development
- Building, nurturing and maintaining mutual relationships build on trust and communication
- Recognising and effectively managing more challenging behaviours
- Protecting and safeguarding the children in your care
- How to create a safe and healthy home environment
- The importance of working in a team with other professionals and birth families
What Are The Benefits Of Training For Foster Carers?
One of the major benefits of training for foster carers is the confidence and knowledge it provides you with. The skills and experience it equips you with make you feel more prepared to deal with challenging situations and provides you with the ability to understand their individual needs and experiences. It also puts you in a better position to understand child development, by educating you on trauma, attachment and emotional and psychological wellbeing. By encouraging effective communication and collaboration with social workers and other professionals, you will feel as though you have a solid support network around you. On a safeguarding level, it also ensures you are capable and able to provide a vulnerable child or young person with the care and support they need.
What Training For Foster Carers Do We Offer At Changing Futures?
At Changing Futures, we offer our ‘Changing Futures Through Fostering’ programme, a therapeutic approach to training, designed to give foster parents the tools they need. Created alongside experienced foster parents and young people who have been in care, our approach is comprehensive and targeted at different areas that are most important. Our training programme is geared towards being there for children, and understanding their behaviours and feelings even when the going gets tough. It’s about ensuring children feel safe, valued, and happy, and giving them a sense of belonging. We aim to provide training that fosters understanding and promotes sensitive, attuned care. This is why it involves areas such as:
- Attachment Theory
- Systemic Practise
- Mentalisation
- Developmental
- Relationship Focused
- Ongoing Learning Opportunities
You can learn more about these areas by visiting our page dedicated to our approach to therapeutic fostering training here.
At Changing Futures Fostering, we’re all about providing our foster parents with the information and support they need to really make a difference in a vulnerable child’s life. If you need any more information about the training we offer for foster carers or about anything fostering-related, please click here to contact us. Or, please feel free to give us a call on 01429 363 127 or email us at admin@changingfuturesne.co.uk to speak to our brilliant fostering team!