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Applied to the realm of Residential Childcare this approach is directly aimed at creating thriving home environments and creating success in young people academic and social life. This is accomplished by changing if not reversing some of the more traditional methods of behaviour management.
It is an approach that completely reverses the traditional payoffs for young people who act up by creating them with undeniable moments of success. It renders unnecessary the need for a young persons need to display challenging behaviour as a way of gaining and maintaining relationships. It transports young people into an entirely different sense of who they are.
Perpetual Care is a pioneer of the Nurtured Heart Approach in the U.K and strongly believes that its application in the residential setting delivers increased outcomes for the young people we care for. As an organisation we don’t believe in just managing and containing young people and feel that many of the traditional approaches that have been used in residential care have been responsible for compounding many young people’s issues and resulted in numerous placement breakdowns. The implementation of the Nurtured Heart Approach has allowed us to engage and successfully work with many children and young people who were deemed unreachable and enabled them to thrive and achieve in their day to day lives.
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