Making a Positive Contribution | Capstone Foster Care Agency

  • We encourage and celebrate our young people’s achievements during and beyond placement. There is a Capstone fund whose purpose is to help bridge the gap between care & independence by supporting young people in undertaking challenges that otherwise might have been too hard to contemplate, e.g. volunteer trips, funding training outside FE/HE etc
     
  • We seek to model for both carers and children the value system that we promote through training and through our interactions with them. We have financially supported needy children in other countries, whether through the strong links we developed with a Russian orphanage or in an ongoing project to support children’s education in a particular school in India
     
  • Carers, with our help if necessary, try to find ways – when their children are ready – for them to engage with needs outside their own; this is not always possible, because of the profound trauma individual children may have suffered, but some children in longer-term care who have begun the journey to more satisfying relationships can begin to empathise with others and respond to their needs
     
  • It is not only children in placement who are encouraged to make a positive contribution. All carers’ homegrown children are given a sum of money annually as an expression of our appreciation for their contribution to the well-being of the children they and their parents foster