Akamas
Experience Learning
SHARING THE CARE: BIRTH CHILDREN IN FOSTER FAMILIES
This course explores being a birth child in a foster family, managing risk and promoting resilience.
Content and Structure
Session one: Being a birth child in a foster family
- Sharing parental care: making space in the family for foster children
- Sharing the caring: becoming part of the support network for a traumatised child
- The benefits of being part of a foster family
- The risks to birth children: primary and secondary traumatic stress
- Assessing risk: general risks and particular hazards
- Managing risk: reducing vulnerability and promoting resilience
- Enhancing benefits: identifying and promoting the positives
- Strengthening the care team: getting the balance right for each child
- Implications for practice
- Evaluation
Learning Outcomes
This course will enable you:
- To recognise the impact on birth children of living in a foster family
- To identify the benefits of being part of a foster family
- To understand and assess the risks to birth children in foster families
- To think about strategies to manage risks and promote resilience
Key Features
The price includes provision of training packs consisting of:
- Course outlines
- Handouts
- Evaluation sheets
- Attendance certificates
Booking Information
If you have any questions or would like to request details by post, please complete our Enquiry Form or call 0845 094 0624.
"Akamas has delivered training in a professional manner which has been well planned and positively received by staff. I would be happy to recommend their training to other organisations."
Pritpal Sodhi - Training and Development Manager (Fostering and Adoption), Kent County Council
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