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* Aberdeen Priority Families
Our Vision
Aberdeen Priority Families Service adopts a whole family approach to supporting and enabling families with multiple and complex needs to improve their life outcomes.
Volunteering Opportunities
* Bedlington CC
Our Vision
Location: Bedlington Children Centre Northumberland
Our service enables to ensure all children get the best possible start in life .
Volunteering Opportunities
* Derbyshire Services
Action for Children - Build Sound Minds Derby & Derbyshire
Location: Derby and Derbyshire
Action for Children works in partnership with Derbyshire Federation for Mental Health, to provide Build Sound Minds Derby and Derbyshire, a comprehensive early intervention offer to children and young people aged 0-17 who are experiencing mild to moderate mental health difficulties.
Build Sound Minds offers one-to-one support, group work, telephone support and a digital offer.
Space4U is a service that works across the county of Derbyshire, supporting children and young people aged 5-18 who have been impacted by someone else’s alcohol or substance use.
Volunteering Opportunities
* Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service- Greater Manchester & Lancashire
Our Vision
Action for Children’s Greater Manchester and Lancashire Emotional Health & Wellbeing Service is an Action for Children service that place children, young people and families first.
Our work includes: the delivery of emotional health & wellbeing programmes, parenting courses, pupil support within schools and communities to engage young people in a conversation to support and build their emotional resilience, offering practical skills to manage negative thoughts and feelings
Volunteering Opportunities
* Grow by Action for Children
Our Vision
Based In Devon
At Grow, we care about parents and their growing family and know that parents are the most important part of their baby’s life. Our Grow classes can help to grow and nurture parent and baby or toddler’s well-being and the precious relationship between them in calm and relaxed environment. At Grow, our commitment to parents is:
· helping them to grow together from bump to baby and into toddlerhood and beyond
· supporting parent and baby to discover the world around you
· giving parents an insight into their baby or toddlers development, helping them to reach their milestones
· developing a baby or toddler’s interests, letting them discover the fascinating world around them where wonder leads to curious, imaginative babies and toddlers and happy confident parents
· helping parents to feel more confident as a new parent, their child is a unique individual who doesn’t come with a manual and we know that at times being a parent isn’t easy
· helping parents to recognise and understand their baby’s unique cues so they can give him/her what he/she needs
We care about parents and their family and want to make sure that their child gets the best start in life possible. We are here to provide a range of high quality classes designed to support the positive mental health and well-being during first few months and years of a child's life and their parent/s.
Volunteering Opportunities
* Helping Families Stay Together
Our Mission
Helping families stay together services, deliver a county wide service of immediate, short, medium- and long-term family support, including a bespoke therapeutic service for up to a maximum of six months.
The services work with an age range of 0-18-year-old (up to 25years for young people with a disability or care leaver) and their immediate and extended families.
We are committed to improving the lives of children and their families. Ensuring that they have access to every available opportunity to seek and make positive long-lasting changes.
The children and young people we support face the most difficult problems in life. Some don’t have the basics, from the love and care of family to regular routines such as mealtimes or the guidance that all children need to grow to be healthy adults. Others have to overcome physical or emotional challenges that hold them back. We help these children to fulfil their potential by providing services to support their individual needs. We succeed in helping children and young people to overcome difficulties at an early stage to tackle problems before it’s too late.
Through our work and through speaking out, we seek to break the cycle of deprivation. We challenge injustice and empower children to overcome the obstacles in their lives that hold them back. We tailor our work to local circumstances, in partnership with children and young people, families, communities and local organisations.
We work with children and young people:
- whose families need support
- who cannot live with their birth families
- who experience severe difficulties in their lives.
Our values
Passion - we are driven by our desire to help children and young people overcome injustice and disadvantage
Equality - we believe all children and young people have equal worth and equal rights
Hope - we believe in a child or young person's potential, no matter what they have experienced or what they have done
General Interests
Mentoring
Come and be a volunteer mentor for us!
Location- Northamptonshire
Can you:
Work alongside one of our experienced family support workers to mentor a young person or parent, based on their identified needs.
Provide a listening ear and guidance to parents and their children
Support young people/parents to achieve their potential by supporting them in the community
Some of the children we work with would love someone to simply kick a football with, or listen to their hopes, worries, and dreams -encouraging them
What you can expect:
Provide emotional and practical support to the child. Giving them good sound appropriate advice.
Selecting your weekly activities with the child.
Complete plans for each session you have together and email them to your volunteer coordinator on a weekly basis.
Speak with the parent/carer when dropping child back home, focusing upon the positives of the child’s behaviour, so the child can hear good things being said about them.
Feedback any concerns you may have about the wellbeing of the child to your volunteer coordinator or project manager asap.
Attend monthly supervision sessions with your volunteer coordinator
Participate in Mentor Forums or any other Mentor group activity.
What we can offer:
Gaining valuable social care experience, working with children and their families
Wonderful opportunity and very beneficial for students or people looking to study and work in the social care sector.
Learning about how best to support children living in difficult situations, whilst being fully supported in your practice.
Improving your employability skills for future employment
Improving your confidence to work with children and their families
Being actively involved in your local community
Meeting new people, making new friends
Gaining a sense of pride and self-worth and feeling good about just 'giving something back
* Tafarn Newydd C&F Service
Our Vision
Tafarn Newydd Families Service provides a multi-agency family support service that promotes and enhances the development of disabled children aged between 0 and 19. We promote the child’s; linguistic, cultural, physical, social & life skills, emotional and cognitive development through assessment and individual one page profiles that address their specific and individual needs.
We are funded by Health, Education, Social Services and these funding streams are dependant on each other as they provide both the infrastructure and aspects of service delivery.
Our key objectives are:
- To provide local support for disabled children & their families
- Families are supported to develop necessary skills to care for their disabled children
- Children are supported and developed to reach their maximum potential
- Children are supported in their transition to school
- Parents have access to relevant information to support their role
- Parents and children are less isolated and support networks developed
- Children and young people attending Saturday club are able to socialise with their friends which enables parents to have a short break
To reduce family stress thereby diminishing the incidence of crisis and family breakdown.
