Post-Adoption Centre
Key Facts
Location
Leeds / Nottingham City / Birmingham / Croydon / H
Project Criteria
Contact
Maggie Rogers
Email
Project funding
£85,000
Funding round
PAC offers therapeutic support which enables adopters to parent children damaged by pre-adoption experiences. It has unique expertise supporting black, minority ethnic (BME) and multi-racial families. Its work addresses the attachment difficulties which arise in adoption and issues of race, ethnicity which can may affect child's mental health, family stability and long term adoptive placement.
PAC has developed a training resource giving professionals and adopters theoretical frameworks, adoption training and parenting tools to meet the needs of BME children. An information and training/working resource, the pack addresses Attachment Issues; Identify and Racism; Adoptive Family Dynamics (the role of fathers; siblings within adoption); strategies for supporting and nurturing adopters; support for adopted children. it covers children's developmental needs within adoption from 0-18.
Background materials will be followed by training modules with exercises, handouts, tools and resources for use with families, reading, reference and support services lists. The pack is near completion and PAC seeks funding to
(1) pilot the training resource with professionals and parents,
(2) produce the pack in its final form and
(3) launch the training in three cities in England.
Croydon and Hackney adoption professionals and parents will participate in the pilot and give feedback on the materials and approach. The 3 day training will include PAC staff so they can deliver the programme in future. We will solicit feedback about the training, the materials, the format, the content and usefulness of the approach. Suggestions and changes will be considered and made to the final packs before they are produced. The completed pack will be launched through training events focusing on delivering the training and raising awareness of the needs of this community.