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Lighthouse Foundation Therapeutic Family Model of Care: Stages of Recovery and their Application to Young People in Out-of-home Care

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2014

Tymur Hussein  and
Carly Cameron
Tymur Hussein
Affiliation:
Lighthouse Foundation, Victoria, Australia
Carly Cameron*
Affiliation:
Clinical Services Manager, Lighthouse Institute, Victotria, Australia
*
address for correspondence: Carly Cameron, Clinical services Manager, Lighthouse Institute, 13 Adolph Street, Richmond, VIC, Australia, 3121. E-mail: carlyc@lighthouseinstitute.org.au
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Abstract

The Lighthouse Foundation provides long-term accommodation to young people aged 15–25 at risk of homelessness, through a therapeutic model of care. This paper will explore its application to young people with histories in the out-of-home care system and those who are leaving care, by focusing on a four-stage process of recovery and the unique experiences it raises for this population based on their history. Drawing on themes identified through our practice with vulnerable young people, it is proposed that key elements of the programme and process hold particular relevance to the long-term recovery of this population, including the provision of stable and consistent therapeutic residential workers, an integrated care team, and the capacity to work with the young person beyond his or her eighteenth birthday. (Please note, no specific examples of young people are provided, rather the article will present observed themes at the various stages of the Therapeutic Family Model of Care.)

Keywords

out-of-home caretherapeutic residential careleaving carehomelessness
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Children Australia , Volume 39 , Issue 4: ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE , December 2014 , pp. 237 - 242
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2014 

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