Blog: what the church needs to know
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Unwrapping Christmas: Church
We want to highlight three examples of areas that can be challenging and offer some questions that might help you consider what part you could play in supporting the families in your church in this season.
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What the Church needs to know about loss
Every child coming into care experiences loss but there are things that we can do to support children and young people as they navigate living with loss
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What the Church needs to know about kinship care and how to support caring families
We want to equip the Church to better understand and support all families who provide kinship care and private fostering.
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What the Church needs to know about violent behaviours
For some families caring for children who have had difficult starts in life, home can be a place where violence occurs.
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What the church needs to know about sensory processing
Many care-experienced children experience sensory integration difficulties – what does this mean?
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When your church doesn't 'get' fostering, adoption and supported lodgings
What happens when your church doesn't seem to understand?
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What the Church needs to know about shame
Why do adopted/fostered children often feel a heightened sense of shame?
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What the Church needs to know about building resilience
Relationships are key to repairing trauma, building attachment and resilience.
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15 ways the Church can support foster and adoptive families through challenges and disruption
15 practical suggestions for providing families with the support they need through challenging times.
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What the Church needs to know about invisible needs
Every Sunday, thousands of children go to church with complex additional needs that aren't as visible.
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What the Church needs to know about infertility
Infertility has been much misunderstood in Christian culture and in the Church.
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What the Church needs to know about confidentiality
To be safe and welcoming, it is vital that churches understand and respect the need for confidentiality.
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What the Church needs to know about attachment
To be safe and welcoming, it is vital that churches understand attachment.
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What the Church needs to know about moves
Why 'moves' matter and how to support families through times of transition.
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What the Church needs to know about being called to foster or adopt
How choosing to foster or adopt can be a response to God's call.
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What the Church needs to know about support through application, assessment and waiting
How to support those going through the process to foster or adopt.
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What the Church needs to know about FASD
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are a reality for many looked after children and their families.
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What the Church needs to know about caring for children with lived experience of the care system
Understanding why and how parenting may need to be different.
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Supporting fostered and adopted children and young people in church or community groups
Tips and guidelines on how to support fostered and adopted children and young people.
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Five things to ask foster carers or adoptive parents (and three questions to avoid)
Five questions that might help you better support foster or adoptive families
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What the Church needs to know about the real impact of support
How the Church can support foster and adoptive families and the difference it makes.
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Five times we should never say the word ‘just’ (and what to say instead)
For being such a tiny little word, ‘just’ carries with it some enormous connotations. Here are five examples of times that we need to avoid saying it – and suggestions for what we could say instead.
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What the Church needs to know about trauma
Helping us to understand that all children in care or with a care background have experienced trauma, and how we can respond to support them.
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What the Church needs to know about single adopters
A growing number of those sensing God's call to adopt are single, so here are some thoughts from single adopters so we can better understand and support each one.
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