Action for Children Therapeutic Services
A range of services available for individual spot purchase or contracted
Get in touch if would like to know moreOur highly skilled and experienced team of therapeutic practitioners and clinicians can provide a range of therapeutic services for children and their families - specialising in Trauma and Attachment recovery.
Available services
90 minutes with one of our Lead Therapeutic Practitioners or Clinicians, who will gather information and take you through a shared formulation and recommendations for the network in supporting the child to move forward in their therapeutic journey of recovery.
Costs available on request
DDP and Theraplay informed interventions can be offered, following a period of initial assessment. The intervention is systemic in nature, involves the child directly as appropriate, and is tailored to the child and their therapeutic parenting team. This intervention is offered in blocks of six that are flexible around changing circumstances and the building assessment of therapeutic need.
Costs per block of six are available on request
Trauma and Attachment informed training that can be purchased for your team or organisation with content tailored around your individual needs.
Costs available on request
Example training courses available include:
'Introduction to Trauma, Attachment and Therapeutic Parenting'
'Therapeutic Parenting with PACE'
'Neurodiversity and Trauma'
'Restore and Respect'
'Creative Approaches to Building Attachments'
'Responding to Trauma in Schools and Education'
We are able to provide bespoke Reflective Practice based support, bringing in trauma and attachment expertise, to support the development of confidence and resilience in putting therapeutic approaches into practice.
We do this using our AFC RELATE approach.
R elational
E mpathy-driven
L ayered complexity
A ttachment and trauma focused
T heoretically informed
E vidence-based and outcome-focused
This is available for organisations to request in a range of settings :
Resi-RELATE : creating a consistent approach for teams of residential carers that is unique to their environment and builds therapeutic parenting and de-escalation techniques for meeting their children's needs.
FC-RELATE :
facilitated reflection for groups of foster carers, offering peer support to recognise the challenges and develop confidence in building their therapeutic parenting of children in their care.
Prof-RELATE :
facilitated group sessions providing the opportunity for groups of professionals or managers to reflect on the systems of care they are part of or oversee, creating consistency and peer support in creating the right environments for children to thrive.
Woodland House - Action for Children Mid-Derbyshire Therapeutic Centre
Our therapeutic services can be provided from...
- Woodland House, our mid-Derbyshire Therapeutic Centre
- our Derby City therapeutic space
- flexibly within a setting in the child's community
- Online
Our therapeutic spaces have been carefully created to ensure our visitors experience calm, safe and nurturing environments
At the heart of every child and young person’s journey in care are dedicated Therapeutic Parenting Teams. These teams form a vital network of compassionate individuals who provide unwavering care, support, and guidance.
Our mission is to create a consistent, trauma-informed approach that unites everyone involved in a child’s life. By doing so, we ensure that every child in care across Derby and Derbyshire has access to nurturing, therapeutic environments. These environments are essential for helping them thrive and successfully navigate their therapeutic journey towards recovery.
Bespoke spot purchase services available
Action for Children as a national charity is committed to the need for quality therapeutic and trauma informed practice, care and nurture for children in care across the country. The charity’s Residential Growth Strategy also highlights this as a priority area of work, as well as developing its fostering and adoption and mental health and emotional wellbeing services.
Action for Children's residential provision is available for children across the UK and all share an ethos of therapeutic parenting and trauma informed practice, under the framework of Action for Children's HOMES model.