WESTFIELDS THERAPEUTIC

CHILDREN’S HOME

Westfields Therapeutic Children’s Home was opened in August 2006 and is designed to provide secondary care provision through comprehensive individual assessments of needs, emotional treatment programmes, and pathway plans leading to independent living.

Westfields is available for those young people who have experienced break down in their own family, considerable disruptions to their lives, whose needs have not been met in alternative care settings.  It is specifically geared to young people who require a slightly less structured and ordered home environment than that of Seafields and Springfields, who benefit from living with an older peer group, but need ongoing therapeutic support and practical 'firm but fair' guidance to move towards adulthood and independent living (or fostering where this is achievable and appropriate).

Westfields is located right by the sea front in Hove, 5 minutes walk from the King Alfred Leisure Centre, and close to the main shopping streets in Hove, and within the catchments of several secondary main-stream schools.  It is a short distance of Brighton College with which our organisation has developed good working partnerships, South Downs College in Lewes, and the Universities of Brighton and Sussex.

The house presents as a welcoming Victorian building located in a terraced row, with an enclosed patio garden to the rear offering good security.  It has five single bedrooms of varying sizes to suit the individual needs of the five young people living at Westfields.  There is also a play / games room, laundry room, sleeping-in room for the adults, managers’ office, an adult’s lounge / work area, a main lounge, dinning room, kitchen, modern bathroom, storage areas, meetings room / dedicated study area for the young people, and off course numerous communal toilets!

We believe Westfields offers young people an exceptional quality of care and provides them with the type of experience every young person deserves.  But don't just take our word for it, here's what the young people have to say:

"At Westfields, the adults help you and talk to you if you need a hand.  And if you're worried you can sit down and have a chat.  You get great help"

17 year old Young Person (October 2007)

"What do I like best about Westfields?  How well the adult's care for us"

16 year old Young Person (November 2007)

What we offer....

Therapeutic Residential Care
Therapeutic Community Approach
Psychodynamic practice
A comfortable & welcoming 'family-like' home
Positive care experience
Partnership between placement & placing authority

Commitment to Education & Life Long Learning
Positive education experience
Special EBD education
Supported reintegration to mainstream school
Supported integration to colleges and further education / training
Partnership between education setting & education authority

Preparation for Independent Living
Pathway planning
Unique "Learning to look after me" practical training programme
Employment guidance and support
Laying the foundations for successful & effective independence

Outreach & After-Care Support Package
Planned & effective support through transitions and beyond, including provision of a transition programme of accommodation and domiciliary care & support through our own semi-independent, West House.

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