How we can help
Explorers
The group runs for 6 weeks and is for 5-7 and 7-11 year old children who have experienced domestic violence.
There are activities around the following themes:
Keeping safe.
Feeling safe.
Healthy and unhealthy ways to express anger.
Exploring emotions through games & stories.
Exploring emotions through art and craft.
Attachment Workshop
This is a three day course for parents/carers.
The aim of the course is to:
Look at how we form relationships, including bonding between babies and their parents and how we are affected if key attachments are broken.
See the importance of developing positive relationships with children.
Ways of improving these relationships.
Anger Management
The group is for 7-11 year old children, who find it hard to manage their anger. The group runs for 8 sessions.
The aim of the group is to:
Encourage the growth of children’s self awareness.
Build and strengthen children’s self-esteem and feelings of self worth.
Explore feelings and their effects on the body.
Develop and deepen children’s understanding of anger.
Develop strategies that deal with feelings of anger in appropriate ways.
In order to support their children and to ensure long term meaningful change it is vital that a parent/carer or a significant other adult participates in our Being a Parent Programme.
Hope Group
The group runs for 9 sessions and is for non abusing carers.
The aim of the group is to:
Develop understanding of issues relating to Child Sexual Abuse.
Empower and enable carers to meet their children’s needs within the home environment.
Facilitate the development of support networks for carers and their families.
Action Based Assessment
The model is based on an international approach using action, observation, feedback and opportunities for change, with sessions focussing on key tasks of parenting and relationships within the family. We assess, explore and identify areas of strength and concerns presenting in a family. If appropriate to propose and lay the foundations of areas of work that require change and support to enable the family to remain together or for children to return to their parents care, if this is assessed as possible, feasible and safe.
Protectors Assessment
This assessment uses the work of Gerilyn Smith and her Continuum of Functioning and of Elizabeth Kübler Ross Loss/Change to explore and assess the dynamic process which a non abusing carer is going through and to report on their ability to protect their children from the risk of Child Sexual Abuse.
Children’s Voice
The group is for all children using the Tapestry Service.
The aim of the group is to encourage children’s participation in the organisation and planning of children’s events and services within the project.
This is done through a variety of activities.
Direct Work
This would occur with both children and adults and could clearly involve children and parent and / or sibling sessions. We would undertake this work to enable children and families to address the effects of trauma in their lives.
The work with children involves therapeutic play.
It is for families with children who:
•Are at risk of suffering family breakdown.
•Are in crisis or experiencing personal trauma (including significant harm and abuse, and in particular sexual abuse).
•Are at risk of requiring formal, statutory or legal intervention.
Assertiveness Workshop
This is a three day course for parents/carers.
The group will look at what assertiveness means. We involve the person in learning about self and developing a sense of self worth and personal power as well as learning skills to deal with situations more effectively and assertively.
Explorers
The group runs for 6 weeks and is for 5-7 and 7-11 year old children who have experienced domestic violence.
There are activities around the following themes:
Keeping safe.
Feeling safe.
Healthy and unhealthy ways to express anger.
Exploring emotions through games & stories.
Exploring emotions through art and craft.
Being a Parent
This group is for parents/carers and runs for 6 one day sessions.
The aim of the group is to encourage individuals to look at how their own experience of being parented impacts on the way they parent their own children.
The programme will include Life Maps, Process of Loss, Taking care of Self, Attachment and Assertiveness techniques.
If you would like to make a refferal to one of the above services then please call 01225 751261 and we will send you a Request for Services form or alternatevely you can download one from the contact us page.
