Welcome to Adventure Care

Children's Care Home

Adventure Care was established in 1999 and is a registered children's home. Registered with OFSTED.

Adventure Care is a licensed Adventure Activity Centre (AALA). Where a structured programme of education, outdoor education, activities and therapeutic support for each individual child is designed to identify a child's strengths and build on them by creating achievable challenges.

Placements are provided for children and young people from 10 to 17 years of age of either gender and from all ethnic backgrounds. Placements are for short term, mid term and long term placements, with no restrictions in duration.

Residential Therapeutic Care

Residential Therapeutic Care is provided for 365 days per year for 24 hours a day on a 1:1 and 2:1 staffing ratio.

Adventure Care provides a therapeutic environment to work towards meeting the needs of children and young people who have been identified as in need of a break from their usual home environment, or who may be experiencing a rapidly deteriorating situation that requires immediate attention and action. This could be a result of homelessness, psychological issues maybe as a result of abuse, breakdown at home, or placement breakdown, death of family, or risk of harm. The staff are trained in the university of Cornell Therapeutic Crisis Intervention behaviour Management Techniques and Interventions.

In addition to the therapeutic methods and outdoor education provided by adventure care, there is access to a range of therapeutic support to meet the child's needs, as identified by the child's Placement Plan. Adventure Care is able to provide Equine Therapy and can seek access to other psychological and psychiatric services where this is part of the placing authority's plan. Adventure Care also frequently use circle work as a tool for development of the young person. Finally, Anger Management may be deemed of benefit to some of the young people.

Objectives

• To provide a safe, stimulating, structured, and warm environment
• To provide caring and appropriate adult role models
• To engage in individual direct work helping to focus on individual issues and helping the children and young people to explore and understand their experiences and feelings and to enable them to move forward and develop
• To teach a variety of new skills and teamwork
• To identify a child's strengths and build on them
• To create achievable challenges for the individual
• To provide education on a one to one basis
• To promote and improve attitudes towards learning and education and to equip a child to gain full advantage from educational opportunities and to work towards fulfilling their potential.
• To prepare for moving on from Adventure Care and working life
• To increase self esteem, confidence, self respect, respect for other's, life skills and self identification.
• Above all the aim is for the child to experience a fun and fulfilling placement which offers lasting change

Adventure Care is based in a remote and indeed beautiful location in Derbyshire - a detached house within the peak district national park.

We use a variety of other accommodations including camping barns, remote camping and caravans to suit the changing needs of children and their placement plans. These accommodations are used as educational learning opportunities, to broaden a child's horizons, as safety measures, as holidays and as a change.

We offer a safe, structured, stable and warm environment, which affords the child positive experiences; new achievable goals; success; and positive reinforcement. We create firm, recognizable boundaries and employ a consistent structured approach within a safe framework.

Each child is treated as an individual and has privacy, freedom (in consistency with their overall care plan), and choice. We encourage and assist individuals to express themselves appropriately; assess their own situation; and take part in planning their own futures. This helps us to build a programme based on their needs, wishes and feelings. Individuals learn to take control of their own lives and develop ownership; and are given responsibility in accordance with their progress.

Rewards are given for positive behavior, whilst consequences will be given for negative behavior. The staff are trained in safe restraint techniques if it is deemed necessary for the safety of the young person.