Fostering First Ireland, Investing in Children Membership Award 2020.
Fostering First Ireland (FFI) are thrilled at achieving the Investing in Children Membership Award! Investing in Children (IiC) is an initiative that promotes the human rights of children and young people. Over the last 21 years, IiC has developed a range of different ways in which children and young people are supported to say what […]
Our Fostering Assessment – Gareth and Steven.
Steven and Gareth are newly approved Foster Carers with FFI. They have taken the time to tell us about their fostering journey so far and also their experience of the assessment process with Fostering First Ireland. When we began looking for information online about fostering, FFI had a lot of online presence. The website […]
Our First Online Foundations For Fostering Training.
Our first online foundations for fostering training was a huge success with positive feedback from all staff and carers involved. One of our Link Social Worker’s Tara Keogh who co-facilitated the training shares her thoughts on the experience. “Online Foundations For Fostering was a very positive experience. I feel that because the two couples were […]
Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing
Managing Mental Health and Wellbeing One of Fostering First‘s Therapists, Cliodhna, gives some advice and pointers on managing our mental health during a difficult time around the world. “We find ourselves in a time of crisis, experiencing a global pandemic and the unfolding impact on our lives. At this point, we are deep into the […]
Carer Training with a Twist.
Even in these strange days, as always, we are as busy as ever on the Assessment Team in Fostering First. The current situation has challenged us to be even more creative and innovative and we have been putting our heads together to come up with ways to continue to support our applicants on their fostering […]
Covid-19 Resources
We thought it would be helpful to share tips on keeping active and well at this time and a list of resources to help keep young people active and engaged over the coming weeks and we will update the lists regularly. Educational Resources Childrens Activities Speaking to Children about Coronavirus Foster Carer Wellbeing
From Me To You – An Advice Guide For Foster Carers.
On February 18th after almost 18 months of work, Fostering First’s young peoples forum (Known as Chatter Matters) launched their advice bookelt for Foster Carers put together by young people with care experience. The launch of this booklet took place in The Marlin Hotel in Dublin with over 100 people in attendance. The book launch […]
Helping Children Overcome Trauma
Whether an adult or a child, coping with trauma can be difficult. However, as adults we have life experience to draw on and we have common sense that will persevere to tell us something is just not our fault. For a child, the foundation has not yet been laid and so Fostering First have a […]
Attachment & Psychopathology 3 day course
World renowned Dr Patricia McKinsey Crittenden presents her training programme in Attachment & Psychopathology in Dublin from Tuesday 21st – Thursday 23rd May 2019 at DCU St Patrick’s Campus in Drumcondra. This course examines development from infancy to adulthood and the process of adaptation and developmental pathways that carry risk for psychopathology. It focuses on […]
Our Trip to Scotland With FFI.
Ben and Brian are two brothers from Cork who were asked to come to Scotland as part of Team Ireland for our annual football tournament in late July. The boys rate Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi as their two favourite footballers in the world. We recently had the chance to catch up with the boys […]
