Supportive Hands

Residential Care Program

Supportive Hands is a small company that supports Organisations, Departments, Relationships, and Individuals in coping with change and emotional literacy development in a targeted and innovative way. Supportive Hands has partnered with Child Trauma Intervention Services in the development of the Emotional Literacy Enhancement Portfolio as we believe that there is a growing need in supporting children, young people, school, and carer development.

Supportive Hands are offering the below Emotional Literacy Enhancement Products. These products are designed, build and piloted with children / young people and key stakeholders.

The Residential Care Program

  • The Residential Care Program and supportive Behavioural Management System (home, residential, juvenile justice, Carer, child and young people focused).
  • The Feeling Tree Program (school, home and student focused).
  • Facilitated Mobile device that measures and monitors individual wellbeing.

The SHANARRI Assessments

  • The SHANARRI Assessments tool(school, home, residential and juvenile justice focused providing child, adult and family assessment for target support).

The theoretical model of this portfolio builds on work of Richard Rose Therapeutic Life Story Work (TLSW) and based on different tools developed to increase children’s Emotional Literacy.The purpose of the above IT programs, is to provide a period of intervention for children in a Residential and/or Juvenile Justice setting. Supporting children (5-12), young people (13-25), parents, carers, and supportive services who are affected by behaviours and other factors which disrupt attachment, education and peer relationships.

“I manage several houses and I don’t need to be at the house to see how everyone is travelling. If I can see a staff member or young person is having a bad day through the mobile app, I can change my plans to go over”.
House Manager

“I can log on at the beginning of my shift and see what has happened over night. I makes hand over a lot easier and I can plan our day depending on what has happened and how everyone is feeling”.
Youth Worker

“I can log in anytime and get an instant update on so many things for example incident and behavioural reports”.
Caseworker

Supportive Hands and partners, are passionate about supporting Organisations, Departments, Relationships, and Individuals in coping with change and emotional literacy development in a targeted and innovative way.

“Fostering the path less traveled”

Benefits

Supportive Hands offer the below, but not limited to the proven Emotional Enhancement Portfolio expected benefits.

One of the key enablers of this program is the real time reporting functionality and the ability in layering the information to support the decision making process.

  • Trend understanding with data (behaviours, attachments, staff / carer support)
  • Staff / carer development (education requirements, adaptability & alignment)
  • Residential support & staff / carer engagement
  • Behavioural management
  • Understanding effectiveness / data analysis