Centre for Fostering and Adoption Support

There will be occasions when sessions will be offered directly to the child and/or parents. We would love to see you at this workshop, where you will receive expert advice and experienced parental insights, strategies to use at home, and information on best support for your child at school. We explore two types of sensory processing challenges; over sensitivity (hypersensitivity), which leads to sensory avoiding and under sensitivity (hyposensitivity), which causes children to be sensory seeking. All choir members were encouraged to play as big a role as they wished and all children thrived within this supportive and encouraging environment. This adoptive parents’ group is focused on promoting and enhancing participants’ therapeutic parenting skills and confidence through harnessing the healing power of play. Our Adopter Buddy Support Group is designed to support our Adoption Matters families by linking them with experienced, like-minded adopters who can provide peer support throughout their journey with adoption.

We offer a variety of groups and workshops to children including a children and young people’s choir, activity days out, musical groups. Our training programme is ever changing to meet the needs and demands of our adoptive families and can be found on our events page Our training programme is ever changing to meet the needs and demands of our families and we would welcome your suggestions for future workshops.

This is our brand new webinar launched in 2025 focusing on how loss and trauma can significantly impact a child’s emotional well-being and brain development. The aim is to ensure that all children can access learning and be better understood, to have better life outcomes and be able to manage social settings and multiple relationships. This webinar is hosted by accredited NHA trainers with the aim of inspiring and informing you on how to successfully transform challenging and intense behaviour, whilst putting you back in control of your relationship with the children you live or work with. At CFAS we understand that sibling rivalry is of major concern to parents for many reasons; not only does it add stress to family life, but it can leave parents feeling incompetent about their parenting abilities. We are aware that for many families child to parent violence is a significant issue and we know this to be a particularly difficult aspect to manage within family life.

Parenting Siblings

If you are an adopter, special guardian, foster parent from a different agency or a family member or friend of an adoptive family, the cost to attend our webinars is £10 per person. https://forrrestarrow.com Our webinars are free of charge for Adoption Matters and Foster Care Matters families and Regional Adoption Agency (RAA) families that are currently receiving support from the Centre for Fostering & Adoption Support. It focuses on improving attachments, self-esteem and trust in the relationship between adult and child, and child to child, in the school setting, while teaching techniques that can be used with pupils in a classroom setting.

from £44/ day

The Sensory Processing webinar is an excellent introduction to this support package. This webinar offers an introduction to those new to the subject, or a refresher to those who may have accessed training in unique approach before. Many families find communicating with teenagers a challenge, however when the added complication of being adopted is present, parents do benefit from being able to increase their own knowledge base to better set the tone for openness.

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The approaches incorporate developments in neuropsychology, brain development and sensory integration. Our Therapy Service provides a personalised therapeutic intervention based on a structured assessment. If you would like to learn more about how to volunteer as a buddy or arrange to speak to a buddy for support, please contact us here

From assisting at our peer support groups to helping out at our children’s choir, get in touch with us for more information, please contact us here “I wanted an opportunity to discuss problems unique to our family circumstances with someone who understood why and how our children were different,” – an Adopter who attended a buddy session. They have all accessed extensive training on attachment and trauma related issues and are committed to sharing their learning. Research indicates that a growing number of children and young people demonstrate emotional and behavioural needs that go beyond the strategies learnt via professional training and experience.

More importantly, I had forgotten just how supportive it feels to be with people who accept you and your child for who they are and have so much invested in your happiness & wellbeing. The group will be held virtually over 6 consecutive weeks and will involve some nice repetitive songs that the children can learn throughout the different themes. Moo Music is an established and trusted children’s group that uses music to inspire development. These supported group sessions will achieve this by offering a range of mindful and creative practices, shared together to provide experiential and reflective learning. An Early Support Package is offered to all newly approved Foster Care Matters foster parents and is designed to prepare you for your first foster placement.