Far From Home – Close To the Heart - 34th FICE International Congress

Orit Amiel ¹ Meital Drimer ² Shimrit Prins-Engelsman ^3,4

¹Social Worker, Director of Foster Care Services, Summit Institute
²Social Worker and Psychotherapist, Director of Therapeutic Treatment Center Director, Summit Institute
³Social Worker (PhD), Therapist at Foster Care Center, Summit Institute
⁴Lecturer, Ashkelon Academic College

Foster families serve as supplements for families of children at risk who have been removed from their biological families' homes. One of the goals of foster care is rehabilitation of the child's relationships with his or her family and, if possible, reunification with the child's family. Often, children in foster care experience difficulties in attachment. Once the child is in a protective setting, it is possible to rehabilitate and treat the affected parts to allow continued growth and normal development.

The poster will present an innovative workflow of developing the Therapeutic Treatment Center within the Summit Institute's foster care service. The Therapeutic Treatment Center is a significant breakthrough in being accessible to foster families, who are located in peripheral areas.

The poster will describe the innovative and significant therapeutic inputs that the Therapeutic Treatment Center provides to children in foster families and their foster parents (individualized child therapy, parental therapy, dyadic therapy, diagnoses, mentoring).

In addition, the therapists' training, their therapeutic approach and their work in partnership with the foster care social workers provide significant insights accumulated over the years.