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• 21 March 2019 | CFC News

  Community Foster Care wins contract for youth service in Melksham

  Community Foster Care has won a one-year contract to provide a targeted youth service across Melksham for Wiltshire Council. The £10,000 contract, won by competitive tender, will mean providing one-to-one support for young people, aged 13-19, identified as needing help to prevent problems escalating and who are not accessing other services...
• 26 February 2019 | CFC News

  Psychotherapist Vicky joins Community Foster Care

  Child and adolescent therapist Vicky Blackwell has taken up a new role with Community Foster Care. Vicky has worked extensively with fostered and adopted children for more than 10 years. Initially trained as a social worker before further training in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy and Theraplay, she has wide experience of children with a range of different mental health issues such as RAD, PTSD, ADHD and anxiety disorders as well as emotional difficulties around loss and grief, attachment and problematic relationships...
• 25 February 2019 | CFC News

  Amanda leads new Family Group Conferencing Service

  Amanda Culverhouse has joined Community Family Care as Project Lead for the new Family Group Conferencing Service launched in North Somerset. After a 16-year career in Human Resources and six years as a mediator in situations such as bullying and harassment, Amanda trained in Family Group Conferencing in 2017...
• 14 February 2019 | CFC News

  Thanks to the Freemasons for supporting foster care

  The Freemasons showed their generosity when Community Foster Care asked if they could help with a charity donation. The St John’s Lodge Workington donated a cheque for £250.  Loren Hannah, Supervising Social Worker with Community Foster Care, based in Peart Road, Workington, accepted the cheque from Mason Mark Gibson...
• 23 January 2019 | CFC News

  Foster care info session, Barrow, February 7

  Up for a new challenge? Why not pop into Costa Coffee in Barrow on Thursday February 7 to find out about fostering. Staff from Community Foster Care, an independent foster care agency based in Workington, will be at the coffee shop in Hindpool Retail Park from 11am-1pm to provide information and answer questions...