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Underpinning all the services Capstone offers and all the work that we do with children and young people is the passionately-held belief that, given the right environment and support, children can recover from their early traumas and learn to adapt to their emotional impairments.

We have learnt that the most important therapeutic work takes place in the foster home and formal therapy is to be used only where additional input is needed. With that in mind, therapy is accessed only after the child has been in placement for a few months, and always with the support and agreement of the CSW and carer(s).

Due to successes in certain areas, we have developed a reputation for good work with particular client groups. A lot of this is office-based: our Dartford office, for example, has developed a reputation for excellence with unaccompanied minors and has strong community links with ethnic minority groups from whom they recruit carers appropriately skilled to do this work. Our Gloucestershire office, on the other hand, is known particularly for its therapeutic work with individual children and sibling groups.

Capstone offers the following services in addition the normal full range of fostering placements:

Adult Attachment Interviews administered at the outset of the assessment process to enable us to gauge the attachment pattern of the carer and thus enable us to do more sensitive matching
Child Attachment Interviews administered to children where further insight needed into their attachment pattern. This is often done after a placement disruption to enable more sensitive matching to their next carers
A range of therapies, including child psychotherapy, play therapy, dyadic developmental psychotherapy and family therapy. In Gloucestershire these services are delivered by a team of therapists who work from the Capstone office
Therapeutic and counselling support for carers when they and their SSW let us know it would be helpful
Individual educational programmes for children and young people excluded from school. These are organised by Capstone’s educational specialists and delivered in one of two locations
Detailed assessment reports for parent-and-baby placements
Supervised contact support
Access to specialist services and consultants, e.g. for carers looking after a young person with an eating disorder
Training: see the Training Section for a full list of all the courses we provide in-house and deliver to external agencies