Celebrating four years of supporting children and families through ACE
Adoption Central England (ACE), the regional adoption agency for Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull, is celebrating its fourth anniversary this month by reflecting on the highlights of the past four years, supporting children and families involved in adoption.
The role of ACE is to ensure that there are adoptive parents ready to meet the needs of children who are waiting to be adopted and to support adoptive families to understand the needs of each other, allowing them to learn and grow together.
To celebrate the fourth anniversary ACE is reflecting on its progress and achievements and the changes and developments to the service over the past four year.
Year on year the service has been able to assess adoptive families for more than 80% of the children who are waiting for the opportunity to experience long term care and stability in an adoptive family.
As the first adoptive agency to become certified DDP organisation, ACE works with adopters, children, birth parents and adopted adults in a way that allows and encourages open, engaged and empathetic relationships.
A range of dedicated support services including ongoing training for adoptive parents, a dedicated therapeutic team and a clinical psychologist provide families with help, allowing them to respond to the different challenges they may face. Adoptive families may also have peer to peer support provided by the ACE buddy scheme, allowing adoptive families to be supported by adopters with shared experiences.
Councillor Diana Toynbee, Herefordshire Council Cabinet Member for Children’s and Family Services, and Young People’s Attainment, said:
ACE has gone from strength to strength since it became established four years ago. They have continually developed their practice to ensure they provide a quality service for children across the five authorities that make up ACE and this has continued despite the challenges presented by the pandemic over the past 2 years.”
The ACE website was recently updated to refresh the style and provide easy access to a range of information about adoption for people thinking about adoption through to people affected by adoption. To find out more about ACE, visit aceadoption.com.
To read the bulletins and find out more about ACE’s anniversary click here.
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