Adoption Support Fund

Support available through the ASF

The ASF can provide funding for a range of therapeutic services. The services are identified to help achieve these positive outcomes for you and your child. Improved -

  • relationships with friends, family members, teachers, and school staff
  • engagement with learning
  • emotional regulation and behaviour management
  • confidence and ability to enjoy a positive family life and social relationships

To achieve these outcomes. the fund will pay for therapeutic support and services including -

  • therapeutic parenting training
  • complex assessment, such as -
    • CAMHS assessment
    • multidisciplinary assessment, including education and heath
    • cognitive and neuropsychological assessment
    • other mental health needs assessment
  • Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy
  • therapy
  • filial therapy
  • creative therapies such as art, music, drama, play
  • Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR)
  • Non-Violent Resistance (NVR)
  • sensory integration therapy or sensory attachment therapy
  • Multi Systemic Therapy
  • psychotherapy
  • specialist clinical assessments where required. This can be such as Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
  • extensive therapeutic life story work