Families needed for teenagers
Presbyterian Support Services seeks families to take teenagers into their homes on a temporary basis. Under its Alternative Support Care (A.S.C.) scheme, families provide a week’s to a month’s care for a teenager while the teenager’s family problems are remedied. The scheme has been functioning since last June but is now in jeopardy
because of a lack of families offering their homes, said a community relations officer, Ms Lyn Gallagher. Families who approached Presbyterian Support Services often preferred to care for younger children because of the problems they might have encountered with their own teenagers, said Ms Gallagher. “But their experience is valuable in a scheme like A.5.C.,” she said. “Their expectations of teenagers’ problems and behaviour are more realistic.”
The A.S.C. families are not left to cope alone but receive training and backup from the organisation’s social workers as well as financial help. Ms Gallagher said Presbyterian Support Services also asked for people to support the appeal financially.
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