Trauma-Informed Care
Our programs are grounded in a deep understanding of trauma’s impact on the brain and behavior, fostering safe, supportive spaces for healing and growth.
🔹 Understanding Trauma: Educating staff and volunteers about trauma’s effects on behaviour.
🔹 Creating Safe Spaces: Designing programs that ensure physical and emotional safety.
🔹 Supporting Healing: Providing interventions that build resilience and recovery.
Compassionate Support
Empathy and respect are central to our approach, helping us build strong, trusting relationships with the youth we serve.
🔹 Building Trust: Establishing deep, trusting relationships.
🔹 Fostering Empathy: Teaching youth to understand and support one another.
🔹 Consistent Support: Offering reliable, ongoing guidance from trained staff and volunteers.
Ethical Practice
We adhere to the highest ethical standards, ensuring our programs are both safe and effective.
🔹 Maintaining Boundaries: Training staff to set professional boundaries.
🔹 Ensuring Confidentiality: Respecting and protecting the privacy of those we serve.
🔹 Appropriate Referrals: Recognising when specialised support is needed.
Services Provided
Individual Support
We offer tailored services to meet the unique needs of traumatized youth.
🔹 Relational & Emotional Support: Addressing relational and emotional needs to help youth build healthy relationships.
🔹 Resilience Building: Equipping youth with tools to manage stress and prevent risky behaviours.
🔹 Promoting Positive Relationships: Encouraging connections with peers, family, and community.
Organisational Training
We provide training and support for organizations working with traumatized youth.
🔹 Educator Training: Empowering educators with trauma-informed practices.
🔹 Mental Health Professional Training: Supporting professionals in addressing trauma’s effects.
🔹 Community Organisation Support: Collaborating with community groups to develop youth support strategies.
Programs and Initiatives
Gang and Youth Violence Prevention
We tackle gang involvement and youth violence through targeted interventions and collaboration with local communities.
🔹 Community Engagement: Direct work within communities to reduce violence.
🔹 High-Risk Mentoring: Providing intensive, personalised support for high-risk youth.
🔹 Local Authority Collaboration: Partnering with authorities to design effective interventions.
Parental Support
We assist parents of children with Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH) needs.
🔹 Parent Workshops: Offering trauma-informed parenting strategies.
🔹 Support Groups: Creating spaces for parents to share experiences and learn.
🔹 Resources and Referrals: Connecting parents with additional support.
School & Local Authority Training
We provide customized training programs for schools and local authorities to implement trauma-informed practices.
🔹 School Staff Training: Equipping educators with tools for supporting traumatised students.
🔹 Local Authority Training: Collaborating on policies and practices that support youth.
🔹 Tailored Programs: Designing programs that meet specific organisational needs.
Key Focus Areas
Root Causes vs. Symptoms
Our programs tackle the root causes of behavioural issues, not just the symptoms.
🔹 Understanding Behaviour: Delving into the underlying reasons behind behaviour.
🔹 Addressing Trauma: Offering interventions that promote healing.
🔹 Building Resilience: Helping youth develop healthy coping mechanisms.
Holistic Development
We support young people through all stages of development, promoting healthy relationships and personal growth.
🔹 Childhood: Supporting early trauma recovery and healthy development.
🔹 Brotherhood/Sisterhood: Cultivating supportive peer relationships.
🔹 Parenthood: Helping youth understand generational trauma and parent effectively.
🔹 Adulthood: Preparing young people for positive adult lives.
Impact
Holistic Approach
We create long-lasting change by addressing the root causes of behavioral challenges.
🔹 Comprehensive Support: Offering a wide range of services for individualised needs.
🔹 Positive Outcomes: Achieving long-term success for youth and families.
Compassion Theory
Through empathy and understanding, we create environments where youth can heal.
🔹 Empathy Training: Teaching empathy for both youth and staff.
🔹 Safe Environments: Ensuring emotional and physical safety for healing.
🔹 Healing and Growth: Supporting youth in their recovery journey.
Collaborative Efforts
We collaborate with local authorities and community organizations to maximize our impact.
🔹 Partnerships: Building strong alliances with key community stakeholders.
🔹 Collaborative Planning: Developing effective interventions with our partners.
🔹 Shared Goals: Aligning efforts to achieve common objectives.
Methodologies
1:1 Behavior Interventions
We tailor interventions to address the specific needs of each youth, using evidence-based practices for long-term success.
🔹 Personalised Support: Crafting interventions based on individual needs.
🔹 Evidence-Based Practices: Ensuring interventions are grounded in proven strategies.
🔹 Continuous Evaluation: Regularly assessing interventions to maintain effectiveness.
Trauma-Informed Mentoring
Our mentoring programs provide high-risk students with consistent guidance and positive role models.
🔹 Mentor Training: Preparing mentors to use trauma-informed practices.
🔹 Intensive Support: Offering deep, personalised mentoring.
🔹 Positive Role Models: Connecting youth with mentors who can offer support and guidance.
Strategic School Assemblies
We engage with schools to promote trauma-informed care and positive behavior through educational assemblies and activities.
🔹 Educational Presentations: Delivering presentations on trauma and positive behaviour.
🔹 Interactive Activities: Engaging students in activities that foster empathy.
🔹 School-Wide Initiatives: Implementing school-wide programs to support traumatised students.
“Count the Cost” Program
Our “Count the Cost” program focuses on six key pillars to guide youth toward positive change:
🔹 Identity/Self-Worth: Helping youth build confidence and embrace their identity.
🔹 CBT: Teaching cognitive behavioural techniques to manage emotions.
🔹 Neuroplasticity: Educating on the brain’s ability to adapt and change.
🔹 New Patterns: Encouraging healthier behavioural patterns.
🔹 Psycho-Education: Offering insight into trauma and recovery strategies.
🔹 Futures & Careers: Empowering youth to set goals and work toward a brighter future.
Focus Areas: Schools, SEMH, and PRUs
Our targeted support focuses on schools, SEMH, and Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), avoiding reliance on prison systems.
🔹 Schools: Providing individualised and group support for students, along with staff training.
🔹 SEMH: Offering specialised interventions and parental support.
🔹 PRUs: Developing tailored strategies to support students who’ve been excluded from mainstream education.