Each young person who comes to Fairport Care Services has an individualised schedule of work derived from work with carers, social workers and any others who can offer insight into the young person’s background and personality. Through this we identify and address patterns of destructive behaviour and the dynamics that bring these behaviours about.
Assessments
We offer the following range of assessments:
1]Initial assessment conducted over four days
- All files rread to assess origins of problems
- Comprehensive genogram created highlighting family history,relationships and unresolved events
- Meeting with parents,young person,social worker,teachers and any others who may contribute relevant information
- Provision of comprehensive assessment report with recommendations
2] Individual assessment
- Non residential: through observation and interaction with young person in current place of residence
- Residential:conducted at Fairlight House over three months
3] Family assessment
- Observation of family in family home over a period of time
- Assessor may reside with family
- Comprehensive report with recommendations and creative strategies for change.
Therapy
Fairport Care Services believe that the young people in their care have a right to the best support and resources possible.
Equine assisted Psychotherapy and Learning
Equine Assisted Psychotherapy places troubles young people into a natural setting with the use of horses.This is a unique and innovative therapeutic approach and is designed to help young people explore areas of their personality that have proved to be, in some circumstances,destructive to self and others.
Through the years most of these young people have experienced dysfunctional connections with dysfunctional systems.When these young people are introduced into the wellness of nature, in the form of a meaningful relationship with a horse, they are naturally inducted into a system that is already well.The horse can be sumarised by one attribute,awareness.Through their instinctual awareness the horse provides the recipient with instant and honest feedback about everything,or everyone, with whom they interact.It is through this process that the young person experiences a functional connection for maybe the first time in their life.
Family Work
‘We could have got his mother to just hit him with a big stick’
At Fairport Care Services we offer the young people a message of hope – that they and their parents have the potential for change and that it is never too late to begin the work of redefining the parent child relationship.
We believe that the healing of the relationship is the precursor to behavioural change.
Having cleared away the crisis and trauma the space is provided for parent and child to talk together, share memories and traumas and learn to listen and value each other’s experience.
In this process each party has the opportunity to offer each other ‘gifts’ in the form of reflecting and examining the origin and meaning behind destructive family myths and secrets – which so often results in the scapegoating of the child or parent.
We can also engage in an intensive 24hour residential programme with staff living alongside the family making interventions to help them understand the destructive nature of behaviours, emotions, expressions and communications that have the potential to harm, destroy or permanently sever the relationship.