Secure Base
Providing a Secure Base
All staff are trained and supported to provide young people with Secure Base therapeutic parenting which provides young people with consistent care whilst allowing them to explore their identity and undertake different experiences with the security of knowing that support is always available to them. All staff similarly undertake Team Teach training in order to learn how to understand, de-escalate and support young people through times of emotional dysregulation.
How we support young people
Availibility
Which encourages the young person to develop trusting relationships.
Sensitivity
Which helps the young person to understand and manage their emotions.
Acceptance
Which helps to build the young person’s self-esteem.
Co-operation
Which helps the young person to feel effective and valued.
Family Membership
Which helps the young people to develop a sense of belonging.
Within Hulton Meadows these values are upheld through
- All staff working to find a balance between supporting the young people and allowing them the freedom to develop resilience.
- Young people being provided with as much freedoms as they can safely handle and guided in making measurable progress towards being capable of their own safeguarding as they mature.
- All staff providing clear and consistent boundaries, celebrating and rewarding positive choices, and educating young people around negatives ones.
- All staff working to ensure that each young person is celebrated and cared for as an individual and that equality, tolerance, inclusion and diversity are upheld for everyone within the home at all times.
- Ensuring that the home is welcoming, homely and that consistent routines are in place as in any household, and through every individual within the home, be they staff or young people, being respected and valued.
- All young people being involved in decisions around their care, the home and daily routines and by staff treating young people with the respect they wish to receive from them.
- All staff developing an understanding of each young person as an individual, with particular needs, skills and interests, and further understanding that young people’s experiences before entering the home will have had both positive impacts that should be nurtured and negative impacts that may require additional support.
The Secure Base model
