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Foster carer training
Key Assets Fostering is committed to providing high quality training to foster carers that is accessible and relevant to the work they do.
Foster carer training is viewed as a vital element of our foster carer support package. As such, comprehensive pre- and post-approval training is made available to all our foster carers.
The training courses we provide help us to ensure that our foster carers are competent and confident in their fostering careers. By improving knowledge and developing or refining skills, we are helping make our foster carers better prepared for the fostering task while establishing positive values through equality of opportunity.
Foster carer training courses
Our foster carer training courses focus on the following key areas of development:
- Child protection
- Working with children who have been abused
- Safe caring
- Understanding attachment
- Building resilience
- Understanding and managing difficult behaviour
- Managing and promoting contact
- Identity and self-esteem
- Valuing diversity and promoting equality
- Recording
- First aid
- Health and safety
- Education of fostered children and young people
- Empowering children and young people
- Preparing young people for moving on and adult independence
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By promoting individual or group training opportunities, Key Assets Fostering is encouraging our foster carers to take responsibility for their professional development and to acknowledge foster care as a full time career.
For more information about foster carer training courses or to become a foster carer with Key Assets Fostering, call us today on (08) 9431 9300 or enquire online.
