To provide a service that delivers high-quality care and excellent outcomes for children through theoretically informed, evidence-based, and innovative practices. These services are delivered by skilled and highly motivated staff, underpinned by a genuine desire to make a difference and change lives.
Mission Statement
To transform lives and futures by enabling children to overcome adversity and realize their full potential.
To provide residential services that effectively meet the placement needs identified by local authorities for their looked-after children and young people.
OBJECTIVES
To provide a relationship-based model of care that integrates theories and approaches as a way of communicating and engaging with young people, fostering deeper and more meaningful attachments and relationships that support healing, growth, and improved health and well-being.
To help children develop the ability to create and sustain meaningful and trusting relationships with others, equipping them with support networks and interpersonal skills that contribute to their future well-being, happiness, and success.
Our AIMS
To put children at the heart of everything we do.
To help children realize their full potential.
To help young people feel safe, loved, and able to enjoy healthy relationships with key adults.
To provide children with the opportunity to come to terms with their adverse life experiences and difficulties through therapeutic care (reparenting) and access to individual therapeutic interventions where appropriate.
To safeguard young people from harm and teach them how to keep themselves safe.
To create physical environments that help young people feel valued, loved, and respected—environments that are stylish, sensory, creative, fun, engaging, relaxing, and thoughtfully designed.
To provide routine, boundaries, and predictability to help children feel secure and contained.
To have carers who demonstrate their commitment to children through their actions, including advocating for children’s rights and challenging discrimination and inequality.
To have high aspirations for the children and for ourselves.
To establish strong assessment and planning processes that effectively identify individual needs and the appropriate ways to meet these needs, then monitor and measure progress and success in meeting them.
To build strong collaborative relationships and partnerships with families and professionals to provide robust, supportive, and safe networks for young people.
To emphasize excellent employee support, development, and retention, ensuring that adults feel valued, supported, and motivated, and that Charis is recognized as a great company to work for.
