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Safer Caring
A training programme

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Foster caring is not a safe profession. It involves risks. Many children in foster care have been ill-treated or abused by other adults and as a result they show a range of difficult and challenging behaviour, from sleep problems to rage, aggression and a failure to empathise with others. When foster carers open the doors of their home to an unknown child, they are willingly taking certain risks with their own health, happiness and peace of mind.

Traumatised children pose challenges that simply do not occur in most families. Risk can never be eliminated completely. Safer caring involves assessing and managing the complex risks that face children, foster carers and families, as well as the other children, adults and agencies involved.

Foster carers who take on the task of caring for troubled children need and deserve the best help available. And agencies owe it to them to prepare them as well as possible. This course aims to give foster carers the knowledge they need to prevent, recognise and get the right treatment for secondary traumatic stress disorders and to assess and manage risk and work as part of a team to provide safer caring.

The course consists of two modules:

• Caring for the carers: preventing and treating secondary traumatic stress disorders; and,
• Protective foster care: managing risk and reducing vulnerability.

The two modules are presented separately but are interlinked.

Subjects covered include:

• Recovery after post-traumatic stress
• Vulnerability and resilience
• Understanding, preventing and treating secondary traumatic stress disorders
• Understanding risk
• The impact of trauma on risk assessment
• Assessing and managing risks to the child, carers and agency

The accompanying CD ROM contains PowerPoint slide presentations and handouts, designed to accompany the two modules.

The course has been specifically designed for foster carers, adoptive families, staffing residential homes and anyone who works with traumatised children.