Promoting Positive Mental Health in Foster Children and Young People course details

This course supports foster carers to understand emotional wellbeing and mental health, enabling them to recognise early signs of distress and provide nurturing, supportive care.

Learning outcomes

• Understanding mental health needs in looked after children
• Ability to promote emotional wellbeing and resilience

By the end of the course, you will have:

• increased confidence supporting children’s mental health
• strategies to promote emotional stability

Standards

Training, Support and Development Standards (TSDS)

• Standard 4: Child development
• Standard 6: Safeguarding

National Minimum Standards (NMS)

• NMS 6: Promoting good health