The foundations of CareVisions are based on our belief that:

• The right environment is central to child empowerment.
  
• We have the creativity and expertise to release the child’s potential.
  
• All working together make a positive difference.

The team is driven by total commitment to these core beliefs.

The key to our success is that we place great emphasis on accommodating children in the right therapeutic environment.

Our therapeutic approach to residential care is shaped by the following ethos:

• Each child has the potential to heal.
  
• Each child has within themselves a vast store of personal resources.
  
• Each behaviour has underlying positive intent.
  
• Behaviour is a means of communicating need.
  
• There are ways to facilitate positive change for each child.
  
• We will find a way forward for each child.

These beliefs enable all staff throughout the organisation to view their work from a positive frame of reference. This culture of confidence, objectivity and positivism is absolutely key to a therapeutic environment that:

• Really communicates with the child.
  
• Really understands the child.
  
• Looks beyond the behaviour.
  
• Empowers the child.
  
• Facilitates positive change.

We believe that all human beings are striving to be what they can be, and that given the right conditions, all hold within them the potential for positive change and growth. We therefore believe that all of the young people we care for have the potential to heal, and that they possess the personal resources which can enable them to do so.

We understand that they may have developed a range of maladaptive behaviours and negative beliefs designed to enable them to survive in what has been for them, a hostile world, but see these behaviours and beliefs as having an underlying positive intent and as being an expression of some unmet need.

CareVisions staff therefore approach their work and relationships with the young people from a position of hope, faith and belief in the possibility of growth and recovery. We recognise that the trauma and abuse they have experienced is likely to have engendered feelings of despair within them, and see our task as helping to re-establish their sense of hope in the positive possibilities that their future lives hold.

We also recognise however that the way in which experiences shape the individual will be unique to them and therefore that it is as individuals that we must get to know and understand them.

We consider these beliefs and this positive frame of reference as being vital ingredients in the therapeutic process.

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