AIMS
Ryvere Homes main aims are to provide an appropriate placement where each child can:
- Experience a stable, secure and nurturing environment.
- Through individual work, address his/her core issues, difficulties and challenges.
- Develop a sense of self and the ability to express his/her feelings in an appropriate manner.
- Promote through positive experiences a sense of one’s self and others.
- Begin to develop the necessary skills for normal healthy physical and emotional growth
- Be encouraged to attend and maintain a full-time school placement as appropriate depending on the child’s needs or within the mainstream educational system.
- Experience the fun of play and being a child.
- Come to terms with and cope with the reality of their experiences.
- Learn to respect everyone is different regardless of orientations, sexuality, racial, cultural, religious, and linguistic differences.
OBJECTIVES
Ryvere Homes main objectives for the children in their care are to:
- Enable a child to make sense of his/her personal history through life-story works, reflective sessions, etc.
- Develop within themselves a sense of safety and feeling emotionally resilience when in the ‘home’ environment.
- Enable children to maintain their own boundaries that will promote their functioning in a more integrated way.
- Enable the children to form and sustain positive attachments that aid them to function socially in a family and wider community setting.
- Ensure that they have received a good education and life skills that will develop their cognitive abilities.
- To encourage each child to reach their full potential developing whatever skills or talents they may have.
- Develop an inclusive approach to partnership parenting, which includes birth/adoptive families and local authority staff.
- To train and coach identified families to work alongside the child in the home before being placed with the family.