The Lioncare Group has one aim: To improve the lives and prospects of the children in care. They work therapeutically with children who have complex needs, have experienced abusive, neglectful, and / or chaotic and traumatic situations, and who need specialised professional support in learning how to cope with the pressures and demands of day-to-day living before they can be expected to survive and thrive in a family-based placement or live interdependently.
Facilities
Primary task is to enable them to be more integrated individuals, thrive in a family setting or succeed in living interdependently, and become valued and valuable members of their community in later life.
They have 3 Therapeutic Children’s Homes, a Therapeutic Special (SEMH) Independent School, and Semi-Interdependence Supported Accommodation. Children placed with them generally present as being emotionally unintegrated or fragile integrated, displaying behaviours that challenge, have difficulty in containing and controlling and making sense of their own conflicted feelings, and often experience problems with self-regulation.
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They aim to help them begin repairing the damage of their previous experiences. They assist them in finding ways to incorporate a positive experience of ‘good enough care’ and parenting in their present worlds. Therapeutic practice approach assists children achieve equilibrium, enjoy their childhood, and manage the change needed to move forward in their lives.
By providing carefully thought through intensive individualised programmes of therapeutic care, informed by ongoing assessment of need, within the residential group milieu, they begin to form vital and appropriate relationships and attachments, attempt to survive the unbearable and overwhelming feelings and anxieties projected by the children in to the adults around them, begin the process of repair and restitution, assess and meet the child’s complex needs, and provide children with the means of finding the missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle of their lives.
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