A comprehensive, integrated, multi-disciplinary model designed to address the complex needs of children who have experienced early trauma and have attachment difficulties.

Family Futures Assessment Service

• Assessments of children where the placement is in crisis
• Assessments of children where parents or professionals have recognised difficulties which might have a negative impact on the placement
• Assessments to determine the therapeutic needs of children and their families

• Guardian or Local Authority requested court assessments to recommend care plans and contact arrangements
• Local Authority commissioned assessments of care plans, matches, sibling placements, contact arrangements and therapeutic programmes
• Health Authority commissioned assessments for diagnosis and treatment programmes

Family Futures' Child Focused Assessment

Our Phase One Assessment comprises of three elements:

• Collation of paper-based information including the following:
• A detailed chronology and a nurture-trauma timeline
• A diary of the child's daily routine and behaviour
• A written account of the concerns that the parents and / or the professionals have about the child
• School reports and examples of the child's schoolwork
• Copies of any previous assessment carried out on the child
• Paediatric and health history
  

• The completion of the following questionnaires (as appropriate):
• The child behaviour checklist
• An executive functioning questionnaire
• A child trauma checklist
• A parental stress checklist
  

• A One-Day Child Assessment using a variety of assessment tools; and involving all family members and a staff group that reflects the number of children being assessed.
  
  

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