CATCH-point is a Registered Adoption Support Agency committed to developing integrated services for adoptive and foster families affected by trauma and attachment difficulties.

Aims

• To provide information and advice to adoptive parents and
  professionals about attachment and adoption
  related issues
• To alleviate the effects of an adopted child's early life trauma
  and bereavements,
• To encourage healthy attachments and family bonding in
  adoptive families,
• To create an integrated support team for each adoptive
  family,
• To promote greater educational and social inclusion of
  adopted children.

Objectives

The principal means that CATCH-point deploys to meet these aims is to make conscious the unconscious processes at play in parenting a traumatized child, and for this to be reflected in policy and practice.

More specific activities (objectives) to bring about these changes are:
• Working in partnership with parents, professionals and other
  adoption support services,
• Undertaking collaborative assessments with other staff
  (including educational staff) involved with the family,
• Offering therapeutic programmers that focus on the
  parent/child relationship,
• Continual professional development of all CATCH-point staff,
• Continual evaluation of services,
• Sharing our insights and experience within the adoption
  learning community to inform the policy and practice of
  others in statutory and voluntary organisations.