Tailored Children’s Support Services

Cedarways Residential Child Care offers a comprehensive range of assessment and therapy services and expert child support services that enable each looked-after child to have access to appropriate resources that tend to their needs. Through our approach that is clinical, therapeutic, and based upon well-developed theories, we are able to deliver high-impact sector leading services, which attain positive outcomes for our children in care, both now, at the beginning of their recovery, and in the future. Additionally, our understanding and experience of how to put theory into practice, facilitate the entry process of children and young people into our therapeutic communities.

Our practitioners are carefully selected to deliver targeted interventions, to build and sustain an efficient therapeutic communication and to develop emotional competence through authentic warmth, and at the same time using an authoritative parenting style which predicts the child’s well-being, by setting in motion a wide spectrum of services. Furthermore, Cedarways’ assessment and therapy services represent a part of the organisation’s core, enabling our staff to deliver psychological well-being for the children we commit to looking after.

Service Principles

Assessment is carried out comprehensively prior to and during the early stages of placement, with the purpose of identifying and classifying the needs of each child. This procedure contributes to further arranging helpful interventions and allocating the adequate resources to assist children and young people in developing resilience and effective coping skills. Our assessment procedures are reviewed regularly and updated when significant progress has been made and further needs become apparent.

Fundamentals

“Each child is understood within a framework that is linked to therapeutic interventions and positive outcomes.”

Vision and Values

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  • To provide an evidence-based practice model of Integrated Child Care, with the purpose of ensuring a ‘positive trajectory’ of outcomes for all looked-after children

  • Every child is unique and deserves the best methods of treatment, to recover from adverse childhood experiences

  • Every child has the right to experience the optimal care environment and parenting practice, to help them regain stability through good living conditions and emotional support, and as an organisation, we strive to offer each child a qualitative family type placement (where assessed as appropriate as part of their Individual Integrated Care Plan);

  • To use an evidenced-based assessment method which is able to monitor the change and effectiveness of an integrated care plan;

  • Cedarways puts into action a strategic individual plan for each looked-after child, which is continuously reviewed and optimised based on the changes and evolution of the children’s developmental, educational, health, social and emotional needs;

  • To provide expert guidance and commitment to those we work in partnership with so that our joint-cooperation empowers children and young people to overcome their distressing early life experiences and continue their journey towards a bright future.

Our integrated care model is provided by the application of the Five Fundamental services. This model is based on creating individualised care planning and structuring, in accordance with each child’s background and suffered trauma, to help them ease into the healing process. Cedarways’ broad spectrum of professional services includes offering the adequate support to a young person who is beyond the reach of many residential units, by assisting them work their way through individual (singleton) units where they have intensive input and can learn self-control to the extent where they can mix and live with others in a residential home or family placement.

Key areas of work are aimed towards bringing up the quality of social relationships, learning compassion for others, acquiring respect for one another and for those in authority, improving anger management so that it is brought to a level where it is within normal, good ranges for a teenager. Within our clinical environments, looked-after children and youths are thought the importance and benefits of building and maintaining healthy relationships, without them being exploitative and objectifying.

Specialist help in areas of drug, alcohol and smoking dependency are also available. Our carers have years of experience and training and they own specialist skills such as managing to care for complex sibling groups. For these reasons, the failure rate of placements would be incredibly low at Cedarways.

To make sure we achieve high rates of success, we involve in the recovery process of vulnerable children and young people, the best clinical teams, social workers, residential practitioners, educationalists, lauded for the fundamental role they play in forming our carers across several types of care settings, by adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to handle safely and efficiently emerging issues when looking after our children.

We at Cedarways put emphasis on adopting specialized techniques that foster the sense of belonging and integration of young people, after they have suffered years of rejection, trauma and hurt.

Sustaining children in becoming capable of living a healthy and normal life, despite them being so damaged over prolonged periods of time, is a worthwhile and rewarding outcome and one that is being achieved now and has been achieved throughout the history of Cedarways.

Our purpose and core belief as a social enterprise is to support the psychological well-being of children in our care, through our specialist placements and services that have been developed with clinical oversight, with the purpose of delivering meaningful interventions for looked-after children.

Cedarways works with a number of health agencies throughout the UK, across a multitude of services. Additionally, the tiered structure of our programmes has been carefully designed and developed to work alongside primary care trust, NHS trusts, Local Authorities, and Education throughout the public sector. This approach helps us deliver targeted services for children with both diagnosed or undiagnosed needs.

The multi-disciplinary teams at Cedarways are assisted by qualified mental health professionals, including:

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  • Chartered Psychologists

  • Child Psychologists

  • UKCIP Psychotherapists

Our team is able to undertake specific assessments for children and young people placed in our care settings, through either a clinical assessment or via our residential assessment centre at Larkhill Farm Staffordshire. Furthermore, as a result of our close collaboration with a number of clinicians who provide Cedarways with direct training and specialized insights regarding weekly consultations of looked-after children that are in our care, we manage to implement targeted therapeutic interventions and plan and review improvements across health, social care and education.

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