troubled young people
Residential Care
Why Choose to Place at Anderida?Since its inception in 1991, Anderida has built a reputation as an organisation that "can cope" with young people who display the most challenging behaviour. Sadly, we have all seen young people reappearing again and again on placement databases having been placed in inappropriate care repeatedly; but with an average placement duration of 14 months, often it is Anderida's residential children's homes in East Sussex that can finally provide a caring and homely environment with the appropriate levels of care for those troubled young people and work therapeutically to help them develop and gear up for an independent life.
With education provided internally at our wonderful Oliver's Hill Farm, Anderida can provide a reliable and complete package of care, rated Outstanding by Ofsted which can include family therapy and psychological assessment.
Our Homes
All of our homes are situated
in the county of East Sussex, a
beautiful part of the country on the South Coast of England. The homes
are of varying sizes from one to three beds, 
urban
and rural and the circumstances surrounding each young person placed
with us is carefully considered before deciding on which home would
best suit them. We have written a blog where we have posted up a number
of new photographs depicting all of the homes so why not take a look
and click
here.
Clinical Child Pschology
Anderida
Adolescent Care
works closely with Dr
Shoshanah Lyons, a Child Clinical Psychologist (BA, MSc, DClinPsy,
C.Psychol).
Dr Lyons is chartered with the British Psychological Society and is a
Registered Trauma Specialist and Registered Expert Witness. She has
worked
extensively within NHS child and adolescent mental health services
(CAMHS) and
in private practice, and specialises in working with young people in
care who
present with complex emotional and behavioural difficulties.
- Fortnightly
clinical
supervision to the unit manager
- Regular
three-hour
consultation workshops with the care teams focussing on the young
person’s psychological needs and management
- Psychological
Assessment of
the young person – of mental health, IQ, learning disability,
educational needs, risk to self and others, offending behaviour,
developmental disorders, and personality.
- Weekly
individual therapy
for the young person (including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR,
Solution-Focussed Therapy and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy)
- Family
therapy if
appropriate
- Attendance
at relevant
professionals meetings
- Assessment,
progress and
discharge reports are made available to the unit manager and social
worker.
Education
It is our belief that all young people have the capacity to learn and achieve and we will assist in identifying the most suitable provision to meet the young person’s educational / employment needs. This may be a local mainstream school, college, work experience, full time employment or a specialist placement.
Anderida also offers it’s own in house resources, providing a structured, personalised and varied curriculum for young people already let-down, and in some cases, disadvantaged by more conventional educational settings.
The key principles of the Anderida Education provision are that of personalisation, creativity and appropriateness. Through a detailed needs analysis, all learners are guided into making carefully informed choices about their learning and the pathways in which they will specialise.
Already established as an outstanding setting for challenging young people in care, Anderida staff are specialists in facilitating development and growth in the young people in our care. Anderida Education delivers tailored educational provisions to young learners in Key Stages 3 & 4, with resources to offer vocational and kinesthetic experiences to compliment learning outside of the classroom.
With a core offer of E Learning to meet the needs of the National Curriculum, learners in Key Stage 3 will engage with a supported full-time education provision complimented by the creativity of an Opening Minds curriculum. The Opening Minds curriculum will offer a tailored provision creating opportunities to gain nationally recognised accreditation in a range of Entry Level (1, 2 & 3) and Level 1 vocational qualifications.
Learners in Key Stage 4 will participate in a full-time educational provision with the benefit of 1:1 support throughout. Initial and comprehensive needs analysis will form the basis for each learner’s Individual Education Plan (IEP). It is here that a structured educational provision will be identified to meet the specific educational and social needs of the learner.
Anderida Education offers all young people greater potential in meeting the Government’s 2003 Every Child Matters agenda.
Training
Our staff enjoy a wealth of training and Anderida facilitates this on a very regular basis using in-house experience and outside knowledge. EVERYONE working for the company has an NVQ Level 3 or above.
See Training for courses that we offer to other organisations
Measurable Outcomes - The CHAT Review
With the work that we do transforming the lives of young individuals often the question is raised as to how we can prove that what we do is making a difference. Through acknowledging positive outcomes we have devised a progression tracking system that focuses on the Every Child Matters headings surrounding key issues including Social Development and Education. Through working on goals detailed within troubled teenager's Care Plans we are able to evidence vast improvements in key aspects of their lives and from averaging the scoring based on Enjoying & Achieving, Staying Safe etc we are able to see how the young person is progressing overall.
Important Information
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following:
Eucalyptus
Grove Statement of Purpose
Merdeka Statement
of Purpose
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Statement of Purpose
Greenside View
Statement of Purpose
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