Adoption and Special
Guardianship Support
The Koru Project provides therapy and mentoring for children and families post adoption and in fostering or special guardianship.
Practitioners support children and young people who have been separated from their family of origin and who may have also suffered trauma before being cared for by others or becoming part of a new family.
The needs of young people who have experienced traumatic life events in early life compound the stressors of growing up and family life. Koru practitioners come alongside each child to provide compassionate and individually tailored therapeutic intervention to help them recover from trauma, strengthen their inner resources and establish attuned relationships with their new families.
Koru therapists and mentors work with children, individually and with parents and children together, to assist families in overcoming the continued effects of trauma in their children’s lives and to help them establish new and empathetic bonds with one another.
We offer Therapeutic Parenting and DDP informed practice in combination with sports mentoring and arts therapies to offer a positive, creative outlet and a framework for restorative healing and improved resilience.
The specialisms of Therapeutic Parenting including DDP informed practice and Life Story Work are an essential part of our Adoption and Guardianship Support.
Our Life Story practitioners work gently and sensitively with children who have been separated from birth families to establish a creative and child-centred narrative of their early years that helps give sense and structure to their childhood history and new place in the world.
Therapists and mentors working in adoption and guardianship support are qualified in a range of specialisms and are chosen to support the particular needs of each young person and their families.
In addition, The Koru Project also offers a training resource for adoptive parents, special guardians and foster carers, to support them in the loving challenge of establishing nurturing and consistent bonds with their child in their new environment, and to bring insight into the ways trauma can affect behaviour and the ability to trust.
For more details please visit Foundations for Attachment Training.
The Koru Project works closely with, and receives adoption and guardianship support referrals from, Adoption West, Aspire Adoption and Social Care.