The Attendance Wellbeing Project

The Family Resource Team at ECI use trauma-informed practise to build relationships with parents and children. We have backgrounds in working with families and youth work, early help, SEN, family support and much more.

Our Family Support Workers give families bespoke support covering what they need, which can include:

• Parenting Approaches – supporting parents to co-regulate with their children and find ways to support wellbeing in the home through healthy trusting relationships.
• Hear My Voice – giving children and young people a space to share their thoughts and feelings and learn about improving their wellbeing
• Signposting – support parents and children to bring statutory and VCSE services on board to meet their needs.
• Supporting parents and children to share their experiences and thoughts and feelings in meetings with other services.
• Practical help where needed with forms, funds, meetings and more.

www.eci.org.uk 

As part of the partnership, YMCA Exeter will be delivering inclusive, multi-year group, forest school sessions to help young people feel comfortable on the school premise and to assist them in gaining skills to re-engage with the classroom more effectively. Utilising our fully qualified Forest school practitioner, with over a decade experience of delivering youth work, a background in education and a qualified teacher, we believe we have a winning formula to help children and young people thrive wherever they are personally.

www.ymcaexeter.org.uk 

The Youth Arts & Health Trust are a charity based in Exeter who offer arts therapies for children and young people. They are offering:

Progressions: An Arts Therapy project to help with engaging in education
This programme will offer arts therapy sessions which focus on helping young people to name, explore and overcome their unique challenges when faced with difficulties attending school or changing schools. It will be child-led and we will remain open to recommending what is best for each child or young person.

We will offer:

• A series of up to 6 one-to-one hour-long online arts therapy sessions at home or in the school (via zoom). Available now.

And this will lead to:

• A series of 6 group sessions on site at the school, bringing the group together in a nurturing and supportive group. Likely Jan/Feb 25.

This programme follows on from our successful Anxiety & Me programme, and explores understanding anxiety, improving confidence to speak out, recovery from bullying or other negative experiences and support to communicate with the school to help with inclusion and feeling more comfortable back in the classroom.

We will also offer for each pupil the opportunity of a facilitated and supportive family and school communication meeting to enable each young person to feedback anything they would find especially helpful when attending school to staff at the school. This programme is also available to purchase by schools and local authorities. This offer is for grant funded sessions is limited in numbers. Please contact us for more details.

www.youthartsandhealth.org 

Esteem Team are a Community Interest Company that work with children and young people who have additional needs and/or struggle with their mental health. We are made up of a range of professionals who care about children’s and young people’s mental health. We are passionate about empowering, enabling and equipping children and young people so that whatever bumps in the road they face, they have their emotional strength, coping strategies and the support network to succeed. Esteem Team also support Parent/Carers of children and young people with additional needs and/or who struggle with their mental health.

Esteem Team can run the HOPE (Help Overcoming Problems Effectively) Programme for parents and carers. Each Programme is x 6 weeks and can accommodate approx 10-12 parents / carers. The HOPE Programme is based on a six-week, (2 hours a week) course attended by people who have similar needs. The programme helps people to focus on themselves as a person and is based on sound evidence about what works for people. It helps people discover new strengths and rediscover old ones to keep them well. It also aims to boost self-confidence and resilience, and helps people cope better emotionally, psychologically and practically with their condition.

Esteem Team can also attend multi-agency and practitioner meetings, bringing a neurodiversity lens.

www.esteemteam.co.uk 

We offer parents and caregivers a safety net of support and hope through a listening ear and practical guidance. As well as having our own experience to draw on, our team are all trained in peer support, and we are supported by experienced professionals. The guidance we offer is robust because it’s been developed through families lived experience with input from professionals and researchers.

We offer face to face support:

• Support guides
• Drop-in cafe style hubs
• 1:1 support
• Low-cost counselling
• Helping you navigate through health and education systems
• Opportunities to influence mental health services

And virtual support:

• Support guides
• Drop-in online hubs
• 1:1 support online
• Guidance through the system
• Opportunities to influence mental health services
• Skills Workshops
• Newsletters
• Closed Facebook group

www.parentalminds.org.uk 

Sound Communities will work closely with a small number of young people supported by the Bridges service who have experienced the journey from school exclusion, alternative provision and the youth justice system.

We will engage them with creative media activities, responding to their interests and skills, to capture their voices and help them to express how their experiences with the ‘system’ have made them and their families feel. They will tell us how they experience it and will go on to explore how they need it to be done differently. They will understand that this content will be played to those involved in the education system to help create change.