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* Helping Taupos Rural Residents Look Out For One Another
* Digital Learning Ready To Go Viral In Murupara
* Providing A Collective Voice For Conservation
* School Children Ready To Embrace Te Ao Maori
* Matariki Celebrations Draw People Home To The Eastern BOP
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* Restoring Kiwi & Native Birdsong At Lake Okareka
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* Growing Food, Knowledge & Community Spirit in Taupo
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* Forest Rescue Now A Vital Service For Mountain Bike Riders
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* Restoring The Mauri Of Te Arawa’s Lakes
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* Re-connecting & Re-engaging Isolated Youth
* Western Heights
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* Getting Taupo's workforce ready to face the future
* Murupara's digital hub
* Volunteer Matching Service To Launch In Taupo
* Making Sure The Wheels On The Bike Go Round & Round
* Supporting An Organisation That Supports Taupo
* EDGE Workshops In Demand To Help Struggling Boys
* Helping older New Zealanders in Taupo
* Supporting Grandparents To Go Back To Square One
* More Night Owls Appearing All Over Tauranga
* 1 Million Grant Announced To Help Revive Sick BOP Estuary
* Recreate
* Values-based education for more Rotorua students
* BayTrust commits to the Sport BOP
* Improving Outcomes One Possum At A Time
* Solar Energy Powers School Camp Forward
* Switching Focus From Sea To Land
* New Whanau Mentoring Programme Set To Launch In Tauranga
* Answering Coastguards Call For Help
* Life Returns To Aongatete Forest
* Door Finally Opens To Home Ownership For Tauranga Family
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* New Wharekai Set To Strengthen Koutu Community
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* The Spirit of Excellence Education Trust to boost literacy and numeracy
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* New Ambulance Base
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CARING FOR VULNERABLE CHILDREN
Supporting Those Who Care For Our Vulnerable Children
Over 24,000 New Zealand children are currently living in foster or whānau care
after being removed from their biological parents due to abuse or neglect.
Thankfully, thousands of everyday New Zealanders have stepped into that
parenting role, opening their hearts and homes to our most vulnerable tamariki –
often at very short notice and for unspecified periods of time.
Caring Families Aotearoa (formerly known as Fostering Kids New Zealand), is a
membership-based organisation that provides support and training to these
special caregivers ensuring the best outcomes for the youngsters in their care.
“The professional support and specialised training we offer helps ‘heal’ a child
in foster care not simply ‘hold’ a child in care,” explains Caring Families
Aotearoa communications manager Jennifer Kinsella. “This is essential to
strengthen the care family and whānau to provide stability for children in care
through a healing environment.
“It is widely acknowledged that tamariki and rangatahi in foster care often
suffer from developmental trauma (also known as complex trauma), as a result of
the early, repeated abuse, neglect, separation and adverse experiences that
happen to them.”
It therefore comes as no surprise that caring for a child who has been abused or
neglected isn’t like normal parenting. They may display antisocial behaviour,
have difficulty connecting emotionally with others, and have a range of high and
complex needs.
Tough Role
Jennifer says caregivers can often feel alone and that their needs, and the
needs of the tamariki in their care, are not being heard. They also face a wide
range of emotional challenges:
* Feeling like there’s no-one to talk to when a crisis happens
* Feeling inadequately trained and supported to deal with their foster child’s
specific needs
* Worry when they’re not given enough information about their foster child’s
background, health, and former foster care placements
* Uncertainty about how to help a foster child with their emotional reactions
after seeing their biological parents
* Difficulty with their own feelings of emotional attachment to the child.
“By training and supporting foster and whānau caregivers, we enable them to
overcome some of these hurdles.”
Despite the challenges, caring for neglected or abused children is immensely
rewarding and can make a huge difference in their lives, Jennifer says.
“Foster parents can help a child recover from trauma and neglect by rebuilding
trust, and helping the child regain confidence and return to a sense of
security,” Jennifer explains. “It takes time, resilience, knowledge, support,
and skills but we know that with our help, it can be done.”
Funding Support
Caring Families Aotearoa has been operating since 1976 and provides advocacy,
specialist training and regional support groups nationwide. Critical Support is
also available over the phone to foster carers who are dealing with
extraordinary circumstances.
A national caregivers conference, hundreds of events for caregivers, the
Excellence in Foster Care Awards and a two-day workshop ‘Face Your Future’ for
care-experienced teenagers (in partnership with L’Oreal New Zealand), are all
available to fostering family members.
In the Bay of Plenty alone, the organisation is supporting 534 foster and whānau
caregivers.
BayTrust has granted $15,000 to help Caring Families Aotearoa deliver their
comprehensive caregiver services across the region in 2020.
“We rely heavily on the support of grant making organisations, small businesses
and a wonderful group of caring individuals to continue delivering our services.
Without the support of funding bodies such as BayTrust, we simply couldn’t offer
our current level of service to foster and whanau caregivers.”
New Start
March 1st marks the beginning of Foster Care Awareness Week and coincides with
the organisation’s name change and re-brand.
“As we are growing and expanding, we want to meet the needs of whānau/kin carers
who don’t classify themselves as foster parents,” Jennifer says. “Also foster
children keep telling us they don’t want to be called foster kids. They just
want to be children who are part of a family.”
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