The impact of therapeutic support on carer retention

A best-practice webinar exploring how therapeutic support can help reduce stress and compassion fatigue while strengthening carer retention.

Hear from clinical psychologist Dr Vicky Sutton on why supporting foster carers through trauma informed therapeutic approaches is essential for long term retention. You’ll hear from Dr Sutton and foster carers about how focused therapeutic support—both for carers and across the whole service—creates more stable fostering households and improves outcomes for children and young people.

Foster carers, including those considering stepping away, will also hear from peers about the importance of therapeutic support and how the right help can reduce burnout, strengthen resilience, and enable carers to continue fostering long term.

Why attend?

Fostering services will gain practical insight into what should be included when planning for retention, and how strengthening therapeutic, trauma informed support leads to better outcomes for carers and the children they look after.
Foster carers will hear from peers about how therapeutic support has enabled them to remain fostering long term, which will support those who may be considering resigning due to feeling unsupported. The session highlights what therapeutic support in fostering is and how it can make a meaningful difference to long term fostering.

Who is it for?

Exclusively for members of The Fostering Network:

• Fostering services
• Foster carers, including kinship carers.

For more information contact [email protected].