Connecting Families is an adapted version of Kevin Campbell’s Family Finding, Family Seeing model, and is intended as a collection of tools, strategies and other materials to support professionals in their efforts to strengthen youth, family and community engagement and participation in situations that involve Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice and Children’s Mental Health Systems.
The Family Finding, Family Seeing model acknowledges the critical importance of parents, relatives, and other caring people within a child or young person’s life; and that they are the agents of change in children’s lives.
The 4-day, highly interactive training has been described as
'The best training I’ve done within the sector in the past 30 years!'
'Outstanding training! Everyone should do this, it's time to change!'
Practitioners will be equipped with tools and skills to interact with youth and family, that ensure families are left feeling that they are important in the life of their child, and that the child becomes genuinely connected to their free and forever network.
This training does not look for placement, it looks for relationships and identity-building of youth we all care for, conscious that a child’s wellbeing is significantly increased when we do so.
This training also continues to build on Allambi Care’s culture of having children connected to the people they love, and those who love the child; the people who will be there for the Youth, well beyond their time in care.
This keeps children in the care system connected to their ‘free and forever network’, alongside those key relationships built during their short time in care which positively impacts a child regarding their relational safety, identity, health, lifelong belonging and most importantly – their lifespan.
