Families in Care
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Registered Charity Number 1007596 Independent Advocacy, Counselling and Support for Birth Families involved with child protection services in the North East.Independent Advocacy and Counselling are currently available only to families involved with Newcastle Children Social Services.
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Families in Care is a proud recipient of the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service 2020
Mothers and fathers who have had their children removed are at a traumatic point in their lives. At such a desperate time, they need help and support from experienced people with professional expertise. This should be our collective responsibility. Organisations like Families in Care need our support.
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Ken Loach, Film Director of I, Daniel Blake 2016 (Palme D'Or Winner) and Ladybird Ladybird 1994.
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Contact Us:
Email: yoursupport@familiesincare.com
Phone: 07897903950
Working Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am - 5 pm
By appointments and referrals only.
We accept self-referrals.Please contact us for more information.
Our Patrons:
Dame Esther Rantzen DBE, founder of ChildLine Silver Line
Joan Mills, first professionally qualified social worker for FIC
Legal Consultant : David Banks, Solicitor
Counselling
Counselling offers a regular space and time to talk about your worries and to explore difficult feelings with a trained professional.
Our qualified, experienced and dedicated counsellor will listen to you without judging or criticising you. They can help you deal with negative or confusing thoughts and feelings that you have. Their role is to be there for you, respect your views and help you to find your own insight and understanding of your problems.
A relationship of trust between you and your counsellor is paramount to successful counselling.
It is a confidential service and no information will be passed on to anyone else without your consent. The only exception to this is if you, or someone else, are at risk of harm. Please contact us and the member of our team will be happy to provide relevant explanations.
Please contact us if you want to find out more about our counselling service. You can also if you want to learn more about counselling and other forms of talking therapies.
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Counselling
A poem
When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked.
When I asked you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that, you are trampling on my feelings.
When I asked you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I asked was that you listen, not talk or do - just hear me.
Advise is cheap.
And I can do for myself: I'm not helpless. Maybe discouraged and faltering but not helpless.
When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and weakness.
But when you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and can get about the business of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling. And when that's clear , the answers are obvious and I don't need advice.
Irrational feelings make sense when we understand what's behind them.
So please listen and just hear me. And, if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn and I'll listen to you
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