CATCH – Children And Trauma Community Hub – helps foster carers understand children in their care including:
Babies and children at various life stages
Teenagers
Sibling groups
Children with additional needs
Unaccompanied asylum-seeking children
CATCH (formerly The Adopter Hub) was originally developed in 2017 with a grant from the Department of Education. It has now grown to include hundreds of pages of information relevant to foster carers in recognition of the vital role they play in helping and protecting children in care.
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CATCH provides foster carers with an understanding of:
Children with challenging behaviour
Children with additional needs, including FASD and sensory processing difficulties
The importance of race and how to talk to children about racism
The challenges of eating disorders, sleep routines and getting children dressed
Children who have experienced domestic and sexual abuse
The teenage years, including attachment disorders, mental health, identity and how to help them thrive
CATCH helps foster carers to:
Become trauma informed
Understand the impact of childhood trauma, abuse and neglect
Understand the behaviours children who have experienced trauma may exhibit
Learn practical strategies on how they can best support a child who has experienced trauma and loss
Learn about County Lines, gangs and how they exploit vulnerable children and adults, and how to protect them
Understand the impact of social media and why it can play such a key role in children’s social lives
PACT (Parents And Children Together) is a charity that developed CATCH to support adoptive families and those looking after children in care. What is important to us is that the incredible resources currently available, and that continue to be developed on CATCH, are used to improve the outcomes for all children, including those in foster care.
