Paramount Foster Care

14/02/2026

14/02/2026

08/12/2025

You are more than a teacher To a baby in foster care, you are a protective relationship. By offering stability, warmth and respect for every connection in their lives, you help shape healing and healthy development.🩷

20/11/2025

✨ “Love is the language every child understands.”

07/06/2025

Here’s the “Kids Coercive Control Web”, a powerful, child-created visual tool originally developed by Barnardo’s Ireland as part of the Empower Kids Project. This resource is inspired by the Duluth Model’s Power & Control wheel and illustrates coercive and controlling behaviours that children themselves have experienced or witnessed.

13/04/2025

Helping kids heal through play is powerful. 💜

Here are 3 practical, trauma-informed ways you can use play to help children feel safe, express emotions, and grow stronger.

31/12/2024

How do we support children and young people to regulate when they are out their window of tolerance? They need time in with an emotionally available adult not time out! We need to help them understand what they are feeling and find the words for it, they need to feel understood, and they need empathy.

31/12/2024

Developmental trauma refers to the chronic exposure to adverse experiences during critical periods of a child's development. Such experiences may include neglect, emotional or physical abuse, inconsistent caregiving, or witnessing domestic violence.

24/12/2024

✨ Wishing you all a warm and joyful Christmas✨ Sending you love, peace, and comfort this Christmas. 💛

12/10/2024

I feel like this is one of the most overlooked aspects of trauma-Informed practices. A point we need to make explicit is We cannot “deal” with children affected by trauma until we learn to deal with ourselves.