Barnardo’s is working to support Hull City Council on a project to develop a whole community approach to emotional wellbeing and mental health within the fostering community. The Let’s Connect – Fostering Communities project is based on the WRAP model, which aims to boost wellbeing, resilience and mental health via a simple, group model. With mental health challenges particularly common among lookedafter children, this project, focused on the fostering community, looks to create a shared language around wellness and help to improve communication and understanding across those involved in fostering. This in turn is hoped to lead to better relationships within fostering households and support greater placement stability. Delivered to groups in different youth and community settings, in order to increase the sustainability of this project, the project will train those in the fostering community to co-facilitate WRAP groups. The evidence suggests that this approach will reduce the need for formal mental health interventions and lead to improved hopefulness and quality of life among recipients of the intervention. In Hull, 2000 children and young people and 120 adults have so far received WRAP through primary and secondary schools and results have been positive.