What we do
HEAL: Helping Empower Adolescents Lives.
Is a Mental Health and Wellbeing Service which works to educate and support those affected, indirectly, by serious violence in their community.
HEAL deliver a three-tier support model for young people across Bristol:
Tier 1 - HEAL offers timely trauma-responsive, community-based interventions to those most affected by incidents of high harm.
Tier 2 – Targeted interventions to friendship groups of young people currently accessing services in Bristol.
Tier 3 – Using the data available across Bristol and working closely with Bristol City Council’s Education Team, the service identifies schools and alternative learning settings with high levels of youth violence and deliver mental health programmes to affected pupils.
We can help with
- No child should be left to deal with poor mental health alone so we provide services supporting children and young people's emotional health and wellbeing. We have centres where children and young people can visit and have a trained worker they can trust and talk to. We help them build their confidence and get to the root of their difficulties so they can feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful.
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