Foster Carers Mental Health and Wellbeing

Useful Links and information

Please use the references below to carry out further research.

• NFCQ - Accredited Foundation Qualification in Foster Care.
• NFCQ & FosterWiki - Allegations: The Foster Carer’s Perspective.
• FosterWiki - The foster carer’s Wikipedia, everything you need to know about your role from the foster carer’s perspective. Helpline run by experts in the field.
• Secondary Trauma and Compassion Fatigue in a Foster Carer.
  Beatrice Hannah, Matt Woolgar. Published May 31st 2018.
  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359104518778327
• Compassion fatigue and foster carers.
  Dr Heather Ottaway and Professor Julie Selwyn
  School for Policy Studies, Hadley Centre for Adoption and Foster Care Studies.
  https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/sps/documents/hadleydocs/compassion-fatigue-and-foster-carers-research-summary.pdf
• 1 in 4 adults suffer from mental illness.
  https://www.england.nhs.uk/mental-health/
• Equality Act 2010.
  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/contents
• Mind - Online mental health tools.
  https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/online-mental-health/online-mental-health-tools/
• Mind - Mental health recourses for organisations.
  https://www.mind.org.uk/workplace/mental-health-at-work/taking-care-of-your-staff/useful-resources/
• NHS - Every mind matters.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/
• NHS - Urgent support.
  https://www.nhs.uk/every-mind-matters/urgent-support/
• Mind
  https://www.mind.org.uk
• Shout
  https://giveusashout.org/get-help/how-shout-works/
• Time to change
  https://www.time-to-change.org.uk/mental-health-stigma/tips-talking
• Rethink Mental Health
  https://www.rethink.org/aboutus/what-we-do/advice-and-information-service/get-help-now/
• Samaritans
  https://www.samaritans.org
• Hub of Hope
  https://hubofhope.co.uk