Fostering Business Support (FosteringBusinessSupport@southglos.gov.uk)

Support Group

Adopters and Foster Carers

Professional Development

What is it? This is a new dedicated Induction, Training and Support Group for Connected Carers, Including Special Guardians Why are we running it? We recognise that your situation is very different to that of main stream foster carers. The new role that you find yourself in now, is often not a pathway you may have planned on taking. Unlike foster carers, you are thrown in at the deep end without having had a course to prepare you for what lies ahead, and how ‘The System’ works. This course aims to do that as well as recognise the particular difficulties that you as ‘Kinship Carers’, whatever your role, face. How will it run? There will be six sessions, each lasting approximately 2-2.5 hours, which will take place over the course of a year. It is hoped that you will attend all six, but as new carers arrive, they can join the programme at any stage. The sessions will be led in the main by Social workers from our team.  This session will focus on: Trauma and Attachment

To know that trauma can be a single event, complex or developmental. To understand how the brain responds, stores and remembers traumatic events. To be aware of secondary trauma and how to look after yourself.

Monday 20 May 2024

Monday 20 May 2024

Wednesday 15 May 2024

10:00 - 12:30

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