Families First Therapeutic Service

Families First Therapeutic Service Contract Description Working directly with children aged 7-18 (or 25 with a diagnosed disability) and their families to identify challenges and offer therapeutic support to address their needs, in addition to supporting other services in implementing evidence-based parent programmes. Providing Family Therapy; one-to-one therapeutic interventions for children and young people aged 7–18 years (or up to 25 years where the young person has a diagnosed disability). Therapeutic Support: Pproviding therapeutic support to children and young people, including those who are demonstrating or expressing inappropriate sexualised behaviours where the level of need remains within early intervention thresholds and does not duplicate statutory or specialist sexual harm services. Adult Therapeutic Support: Where appropriate, therapeutic support may be offered to parents or carers where their past experiences are impacting on their capacity to parent effectively. This support must remain time limited and clearly linked to improving outcomes for children and young people, rather than providing open ended adult therapy