In addition to the above we identified services and projects through Independent consultation , we are planning  to develop the following improvements and additional services:

• Extended helpline service provision - We are looking to increase the helpline opening hours and are actively seeking sponsorship to recruit 6  new volunteers and a part-time telephone manager.

 

• Which directly with 30 young adults and people with learning difficulties and  Mental health conditions that require intensive teaching and learning programmes focusing on the personal requirements .

 

• Practical Young Parenting Skills - This programme helps build positive relationships, enabling people to manage their own finances and to prevent children becoming harmed. Fully designed and documented, this programme is ready to deliver but will require separate funding.

 

• Focus on Early Intervention: We are looking to provide early, focused and intense intervention and support to young parents by recruiting five volunteers and training them to deliver small support groups in community centres with the aim of supporting 30 new families each year. Again the programme is designed but requires funding support.

 

In the longer term we are investigating the design and development of Integrated Play Facilities. Delivered either at the client’s home - in community premises this offering is designed to encourage children to understand each other’s difficulties and to accept each other’s differences.Children will learn new skills, including social integration, communicating through different media, sign language, PECs books, art therapy, performing arts. Again the delivery of this will be dependent on our ability to raise appropriate funds.

 

 

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