Providing a Healing Place for Children in Foster Care

A therapeutic transitional residential program to help reduce the experience of trauma in foster care

Names and faces changed to protect privacy of children.

Children in foster care often bounce between child welfare (DCYF) offices, motels, shelters, emergency care facilities, and multiple short-term placements with little chance to get their questions answered, let alone process the trauma they have experienced.

Bridge Receiving Center is a therapeutic residential program that partners with a children's camp where children (ages 4-18) find an immediate safe place to stay while awaiting the next steps in their lives.

THE BRIDGE
DIFFERENCE

DETAILED PROGRAM OVERVIEW

• Reduced trauma that comes when a child needs to be removed from home and placed in care.
• Stability through trauma-responsive support during stay.
• Increased sense of felt safety for a child during transition.
• Ability to keep siblings together.

• Time provided to locate the best option for the child, not the first available bed.

Bridge Difference

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