Team Manager – Adoption Support Services
Sarah joined the wider community of children’s services in 2014, working in the parenting team and also facilitating Gateway groups raising awareness and supporting people who were or had experienced domestic abuse. Sarah is the manager of AFA’s adoption support team. She oversees the evidenced based interventions that support the parenting of children who have experienced early life trauma.
Sarah’s working life has been dedicated to helping and supporting others. Before joining AFA Sarah worked within a youth offenders’ unit and a semi-independent home for teenagers. Sarah also worked as a volunteer for the Samaritans. Sarah gained her advanced diploma in counselling and psychotherapy, before going on to qualify and train in Triple P – 0-12 and Triple P teens, Gateway, Solution focused brief therapy and Video Feedback Positive Parenting –Sensitive Discipline (VIPP-SD).
Sarah is passionate about her work, and felt truly honoured to receive the award for Adoption Support Practitioner of the year at the National Adoption Week Awards in 2018.
