Making friends and developing relationships
As well as support from a Social Worker or Personal Advisor, we may be able to offer you additional practical and emotional support, such as:
- Providing you with a mentor/peer mentor
- Where appropriate, continuing to support contact with the ‘Independent Visitor’ you had while you were in care.
- Help to maintain or regain contact with people special to you or who cared for you in the past, like former foster carers or social workers.
- Providing you with information about regular groups that take place within the service, where you can meet and interact with other care leavers (please see participation for further details).
- Lifelong Links – Is a service that supports you to find out more information and reconnect with people in your life that you have lost contact with or in some cases have never met. This could be anyone from family members, friends or professionals who worked with you such as your previous teachers, social workers or foster carers.
- Alumni (CLAN) – if you are no longer working directly with a social worker or Personal Advisor why not join our Care Leavers Alumni Network?