When Mother’s Day Hurts For children who have been removed from their birth families due to abuse or neglect, emotions around Mother’s Day can be incredibly complex. Some may still long for the mother they are unable to be with, despite the harm they may have endured....
When Mother’s Day Hurts For children who have been removed from their birth families due to abuse or neglect, emotions around Mother’s Day can be incredibly complex. Some may still long for the mother they are unable to be with, despite the harm they may have endured. Others may feel anger,...
Every child deserves to feel included, valued, and loved. Yet, for many children living in care,...
Building a Foundation on Core Values When we started To the Moon and Back, we knew that the values...
She asked about our fostering agency and when I told her that we were called “To the Moon and Back...
When we set up To the Moon and Back Foster Care, we wanted to be a locally supportive fostering service. Establishing ourselves in Kings Hedges in Cambridge, our lovely office is a hub for the carer communities we work with, but we also hold meetings and learning events in the localities where our foster carers live, reducing the need for traveling long distances. Likewise, we work with local staff, ensuring that our support team can spend longer on our carers sofas than sat in their cars in traffic.
In 2023 we commenced an improved transfer process that has reduced the need for a further full assessment and takes considerably less time than the traditional transfer process. The beauty of the process is that it enables the building of a relationship, ensuring that...
Having founded To the Moon and Back Foster Care with Alison Kindred Byrne back in 2017 it’s been an amazing journey of developing a constantly improving organisation we can be proud of. Founded on values that remain as valid today as they did in the beginning, we have continued to challenge ourselves to do the right thing at the right time and dare to care deeply. Has it been easy? Absolutely not! Has it been worth it? Yes.. in so many ways!
