Core Values & Principles

Core Values of Sun Connections

• We strive to be a compassionate organization; integrity is our watch word and safeguarding the golden thread in all we do.
• We aim to serve a diverse community as inclusively as possible and endeavour to hold a non-judgemental stance.
• Our services and programmes are research based, creative, and person-centred, designed to give value, yet be sustainable.

Core Principles of SUN Connections

In support of recommendations from The Centre of the Developing Child Harvard University we promote the following principles;

• Supporting responsive relationships.
• Strengthening core life skills.
• Reducing sources of stress.

https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/three-early-childhood-development-principles-improve-child-family-outcomes/#responsive-relationships

We are also guided by three core principles of Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP)

• Acceptance.
• Empathy.
• Curiosity.

DDP recognised by NICE as a promising approach see:

• Independent evidence review of post-adoption support interventions
• Research, Evidence base and Outcomes
• Children’s attachment

Through reflective practice of these core values and principles, our work is relational and serves to encourage supportive human connections that enable growth and learning.