The L in SMILE

Long term

Our agency focuses only on long term therapeutic placements. The reason for this is that we know that children who have had Adverse Childhood Experiences need a secure base placement over time to recover from their experiences.

Trauma affects the way a child’s brain develops, but we know that with the right care, the brain can recover and rebuild connections that were not made in earlier childhood.

This requires skilled intervention by specialists not usually available to foster parents.