Who we are and what we do …
The Adoption Support Service is based at Adoption Now’s central hub in Bolton.
Supporting adoptive families is an area that we view to be especially important and our team of over 20 workers (including contact and letterbox co-ordinators) have considerable experience and a variety of training to equip them to support you throughout your adoption journey, from the assessment, to early placement support and beyond.
Our services range from a core offer of support groups, workshops, training, and social events to assessed packages of therapy intervention.
At Adoption Now we are continually developing and investing in our adoption support services by providing staff with a further range of therapeutic training so that they can support you even more effectively into the future.
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Core Offer
Whilst many of you will not need high levels of support from the onset, our programme of workshops and social events are intended to provide opportunities for adoptive parents to connect with one another as well as with professionals. They offer opportunities to talk about adoption issues in an informal setting, to learn how to support your child in the best way that you can and to form valuable relationships and extend your own networks.
Please follow the link to our current calendar
Adoption Now Adopter Preparation, Training & Support Calendar
Targeted Support
Some families require more focused support than is provided through our core offer services. If you feel that your family needs more specific support, then contact our duty service and we can talk through how best to support you. Sometimes one telephone call is all that is needed at that time to resolve an issue. At other times you might feel that you need more ongoing support. Every family has the right to ask for an Assessment of their Adoption Support needs, an assessment which can explore holistically the needs of every member of the family. An adoption support worker will work with you to agree a plan as to who/what services need to be consulted as part of that assessment process, work with you throughout the assessment process to develop the post appropriate adoption support plan for you and your family.
Specialist intervention
Following on from an Assessment of Adoption Support Needs, we can commission a range of specialist interventions, generally funded through application to the Adoption Support and Special Guardianship Fund. The therapeutic intervention is tailored to the needs of each family and may be a single intervention or more than one happening at the same time. The possible therapies (this is not an exhaustive list) include: Play therapy, Filial Therapy, Theraplay, Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy, Non-Violent Resistance Therapy, Therapeutic Life Story work and Sensory Integration Therapy.
