Support That Helps You Care With Confidence
Fostering can be deeply rewarding, but it can also bring challenges. At Key Assets, mātua whāngai/foster carers are supported with practical guidance, specialist knowledge and trusted relationships throughout their journey.
Our role is to help you understand the needs of mokopuna in your care and give you the tools, confidence and support to respond with patience, consistency and aroha.
Carer Learning and Development
You do not need to know everything before becoming a foster carer. We will help you build the knowledge and skills you need.
Your learning begins with a two-day pre-assessment training programme and continues after you are approved. Training covers trauma-informed and therapeutic approaches to care, helping you understand how experiences mokopuna go through may shape their behaviour, relationships and needs.
Ongoing learning and development will help you:
- understand and respond to trauma
- build safe, trusting relationships
- support identity, whakapapa and whānau connections
- respond to different behaviours and additional needs
- advocate for mokopuna in your care
- care for your own wellbeing while supporting others
Training is practical, ongoing and shaped around the realities of fostering.
The Support We Offer
You will become part of a wider team focused on the safety, wellbeing and development of mokopuna in your care.
As a Key Assets foster carer, you will have access to:
24/7 Support
Help is available at any time, every day of the year.
A dedicated social worker
Regular contact, home visits, coaching and supervision from an experienced Key Assets social worker.
Supportive Respite
Up to 20 nights of paid respite each year.
Financial Support
Payments that recognise the costs and responsibilities involved in caring.
Group Support
Opportunities to connect with and learn from other mātua whāngai.
Ongoing Training
Continued learning to strengthen your knowledge, confidence and skills.
Youth Worker Support
Help for mokopuna to work towards their personal goals.
Education Guidance
Support with school meetings, enrolments, stand-downs and communication with education services.
Therapeutic support
Guidance to help you understand and respond to the needs of mokopuna through a trauma-informed lens.
You will never be expected to carry the responsibility of fostering alone
Want to Know More? Becoming a mātua whāngai is a big decision, and it is natural to have questions.
Learn more about the application process, who can foster and the support you will receive.
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