The Solution 28 scheme provides children and young people with a supportive, stable home for a period of 28 days, whilst long-term provisions are arranged. Five Rivers foster carers, Sharon and Ken, talk about their fostering journey in an interview with BBC Radio Gloucestershire. If you would like to find out more about Solution 28 Fostering in Gloucester, visit our website here: https://five-rivers.org/fostering/locations/south-west/gloucester/solution-28/
Listen as our CEO and Founder, Pam McConnell, and our head of Assessment and Therapy, Richard Cross, reflect on the Diversity Role Model podcast series.
Listen as our diversity role models discuss their religious beliefs and what that means to them.
In this episode of our podcast series with our diversity role models, two foster carers discuss sexuality.
A group of our young people have worked with Voicebox to explore their digital identity. Listen to their reflections in this podcast.
In this episode, our diversity role models Wayne and Aaliyah discuss race and ethnicity.
Listen as Angelina, one of our care leavers, and our London and East Fostering Manager, Jeannette, discuss living with a disability.
In this podcast, foster carer Vicky and Olivia, Participation Lead for Five Rivers, discuss transitions within gender.
Listen as Margaret, from our Finance Team and Lauren, from our Communications Team, discuss their perceptions of age.
Listen as one of our foster carers Pete, and Asa from our Assessment and Therapy Team talk about masculinity.
This International Women's Day, listen as our Head of HR, Kate Bromfield and Hannah Bradley, a Five Rivers Care Leaver discuss their experience of being a woman.
Listen as a group of our young people talk about diversity and inclusion with our Participation Lead, Olivia and Hannah from Diversity Marketplace.
In this final episode in our Care to Listen? Series celebrating #NationalCareLeaversWeek, Five Rivers Child Care CEO and founder Pam McConnell and Assessment and Therapy Research Assistant Hannah Gilding discuss some of the issues that care leavers can sometimes face and what Five Rivers can do, as an organisation, to continue providing valuable and long lasting attachment and support to care leavers, from the families that foster with us. The episode also highlights the use of language when judging the success of care leavers and how the work of Five Rivers as a social enterprise aids in supporting young people, as they transition into independence.
In this episode, Sarah-Jane, 19, talks about how her love for dodgeball has led her to a life-changing foster placement with her dodgeball coach. Sarah Jane’s positive relationships with her social workers meant that she felt like she was always able to share her feelings, and, in turn, be better supported. Her care leaver journey has been well supported by friends, old carers and Five Rivers and Sarah - Jane is hopeful to continue on with a supported by friends, old carers and the organisation is giving Sarah-Jane a good future.
Ric Flo is a rapper, artist, care leaver, young achiever and dream believer. In this upbeat, warm and confident interview Ric speaks about his care leaving journey, which he faced with determination. He shares how a Christmas spent alone one set him off on a tenacious journey which brought him to delivering music workshops to care experienced young people. His latest album – ‘Rise of the Phoenix’ tells us of his experience leaving care and how he uses his music to help him channel and process his authentic life.
In this week's episode of Care to Listen, Katharine Anderson from the Five Rivers Child Care Assessment and Therapy Team talks about the subtle unspoken power that Sons and Daughters can have on the development of children who are fostered.
Foster carer Veronica and her birth son Adam, from Chester talk about how their drip to an agricultural; show brought them to a Foster Careline stand and how this ignited their journey into the world of fostering.
Keila was a child who spent most of her life in the care system but her last placement gave her a sense of family. Listen to Keila speaking fondly about how she felt part of the family and how fostering made a positive difference in her life.
Listen to our own care experienced foster carer Julie and her son Owen discuss their want to help others through fostering and what opportunities it provides, to reflect and to empathise.
Join us on the first episode of Care to Listen? Series 3 as we speak to Amy, a daughter of a family that fosters. Amy tells us of her experience and how it has sparked a realisation, that she wanted to devote her life and career to working with children and young people. Amy now recognises the unspoken impact that sons and daughters of fostering families have over the lives of children who are fostered.