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Therapeutic Adoption Support Service

The ARC Adoption team has a great deal of experience of working with children, families and networks brought together through adoption. We understand that while your adoption journey will bring lots of happiness and joy, it can also bring worries, challenges and bumps along the way.

The dedicated team from the Therapeutic Adoption Support Service (TASS) are there to support you and your family through the journey of adoption and beyond, and are always just a phone call away. 

We provide help and support to children, parents, the wider family and schools, with any of the following:

  • Stress, worries, anxieties
  • Managing behaviour
  • Dealing with our emotions
  • Life story work and support in having those difficult conversations
  • Attachment and trauma difficulties
  • Understanding adoption for the wider family
  • Managing life at school
  • Support for schools
  • Level 1 Theraplay® using the theraplay principles
  • Adult and child counselling
  • ARCBOX, a child-centred, innovative digital life story tool created by ARC Adoption, providing children with the opportunity to contribute to a personalised, fun to use, lasting digital record of their life, resulting in a truly ‘living’ chronology that can be used as a therapeutic tool
  • Or simply just advice, a chat and a cup of tea

You can also find about the online, social and peer support available to adopters at ARC Adoption North East.

 If you would like to find out more information about the support available from ARC Adoption North East please call 0191 516 6466 or email [email protected]

 

Published: 16th July, 2019

Updated: 7th February, 2022

Author: Vanessa Martyn

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Monday to Thursday 09:00 until 17:00, and Friday 09:00 until 16:30.

You can also contact us anytime at [email protected]