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Anchor - Emotional Health and Wellbeing Team
We are a team dedicated to the emotional health and wellbeing of Looked After Children from 0-18 years of age. Our service is made up of professionals working together from the NHS and Worcestershire County Council.
About us
Our aim is to ensure that Looked After Children and young people are able to thrive with carers who understand and are supported to meet their needs.
Anchor also provides support and guidance to the professionals to help them to develop an understanding of the impact of early adversity on a child’s development.
We work alongside the Green Fingers Project. They offer therapeutic play, activities and alternative education opportunities. Find out more about Green Fingers: Green Fingers Project | A healthy lifestyles project for 'Looked After Children' and carers.
What type of support does Anchor offer?
- Assessment to make sense of current difficulties and work out what type of support might be most helpful
- Attachment focused therapeutic parenting support to Kinship, Foster carers and Residential/Outreach Workers
- Attachment and trauma-focused therapeutic input with children, young people and carers
- Thinking Spaces for Social Workers, Fostering Social Worker or Children’s Home staff – for more information please see our ‘Thinking Space’ information leaflet
- Consultation to teams and referrers on an individual basis.
- Support to commission therapeutic intervention from independent providers, where relevant or where children are living out of the Worcestershire area
Our service does not support:
- Children placed with birth parents or birth relatives (excluding Kinship carers)
- Carers or children placed under Special Guardianship Orders (SGO)
- Looked After Children placed in Worcestershire by other Local Authorities, with the exception of Health Assessments and Green Fingers (if funding is available)
- Court based assessments
- Legal care planning decisions
- Worcestershire Looked After Children placed outside of Worcestershire
Our team is made up of professionals including:
- Clinical Psychologists
- Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
- Senior Mental Health Practitioner
- Social Workers
- Named Nurse for Looked After Children
- Specialist Looked After Children nurses
- Administrators
- Community and Leisure Worker
- Green Fingers Mentors
Digital resources and further information
Anchor referral
We do not accept referrals directly from patients or their carers. Referrals can be made by social workers, through Liquid Logic or by a CAMHS practitioner or other health professional.
To access the portal please use the link below which will also allow you to access online training and information:
Feedback
If you are a young person or carer who looks after a young person, who has had support from Anchor, your feedback is important to us. Please click the link below to complete our feedback form.
Training and resources for professionals
We have produced a series of videos aimed at professionals that cover the content of our attachment workshops, these are available to view online. The sections are as follows:
- Introduction
- Attachment theory
- Neurobiology of attachment and trauma
- Toxic stress
- Polyvagal
- Window of tolerance
- Recovery and repair
- Reflections and contact details
Please note this resource is password protected. To request the password please email the Trust Communications Team.