"a place where young people can develop and maintain relationships"
Day to Day
Once a young person is welcomed into a Young Foundations home they will have a key worker allocated to them.
An assessment will take place to identify the young person's individual needs. This assessment will be multi-faceted and multi-disciplined depending on the strengths and difficulties the young person is experiencing, and where they are being referred from. Assessment tools will be used where appropriate to act as a baseline to track each individual's development.
The placement plans will incorporate boundaries and objectives; they will follow a schedule designed to bring stability into their lives.
The placement plan will include:
- Health needs and health promotion
- Care needs, including safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
- Physical and emotional needs
- Educational needs and attainment targets
- Cultural, religious, language and racial needs and how they will be met
- Leisure needs
- Contact arrangements with family, friends and significant other people as appropriate
Each young person has their own individual plan created with the multi-disciplinary team, relevant external agencies, the young person and those with parental responsibility (when appropriate).
Young Foundations believes that young people should not suffer from the symptoms of their problems; they should learn through their experience of positive achievement. An individual's behaviour does not preclude them from any activity.
Pastoral, social, domestic skills education and emotional care delivered by Young Foundations professionals blend well with community access and inclusion. A timetabled structure incorporates 24 hours of education for each young person a week combined with activities such as football, swimming, running and fell walking. These activities support the national strategy of 'Fit for the Future' (sponsored by the NHS and Sport England) and Young Foundations' belief in 'Healthy Mind, Healthy Body'.
Within the transitions homes, young adults can continue to develop and learn via the ASDAN scheme, and other related learning frameworks.