Services
Advocacy Support for Young Carers
by Sandwell Advocacy
Advocacy works to protect children and young people from harm and abuse and ensures their rights are safeguarded. We empower young carers to have greater control over their everyday lives.
SAVE (Sandwell Advocacy Voice and Empowerment)
by Sandwell Advocacy
We will provide one-to-one support for children and young people as required that is child centred and ensures that integrated support is offered to children and young people who are experiencing poor mental health and/or behavioural issues.
Our Future
by Black Country Women's Aid
Our Future is a project delivered by Black Country Women’s Aid Children’s Advocacy Team. Our Future offers a range of school based support to children and young people age 5-18 affected by domestic abuse. As a specialist domestic abuse service, the Service in Sandwell is in place to support children and young people that are open to children’s social care who require in depth support and advocacy to ensure that the child’s voice is heard within the social care arena during meetings.
Social Skills and Relationship Mentoring for Young Carers
by Sandwell Young Carers
Providing one-to-one, group support and peer mentor partnership mentoring support sessions to young carers aged 5 - 18 years. Young carers will be supported to enhance social skills, feel less lonely and isolated, build trusting relationships, improve confidence and self esteem.
Helping Hands Sandwell
by Family Action
Helping Hands Sandwell offers a FREE of cost befriending service, developed and delivered by volunteers.
They offer support and advice to parents of children with AUTISM/ASD/ADHD or on a pathway to be diagnosed.
Therapeutic support for Sandwell children affected by domestic abuse
by Black Country Women's Aid
Black Country Women's Aid (BCWA) provides a range of targeted therapeutic support for children and young people who have experienced, witnessed or heard domestic violence and abuse (DVA) to help them recover from trauma. We talk to every child and young person in confidence, listening carefully to their story and reassuring them that we believe them. Everyone is treated as an individual, and we consider their gender, culture, ethnicity and sexuality to provide the best support. We empower all our young clients, sharing information with them so that they can make their own decisions.
Therapeutic Support for Sandwell Children affected by Domestic Abuse/Sexual Violence
by Black Country Women's Aid
Black Country Women's Aid's provides 1-2-1 counselling for children aged 7-18 who are victims of domestic abuse/sexual violence.
We:
• Give children/young people someone to talk to in confidence who will listen to them and believe them
• Provide sensitive services which respect their individual needs
• Support them with age and development-appropriate therapeutic techniques including art and creative therapies, mindfulness, storytelling and using dolls and action figures
• Improve their emotional health and wellbeing, helping them to: express themselves safely; regulate emotions and manage behaviour, develop psychological flexibility, understand and aspire to healthy relationships
Stronger Together in Sandwell
by Brushstrokes Community Project
Brushstrokes is a specialist organisation, holistically supporting refugees, migrants and asylum seekers in their journey to settlement and integration. Stronger Together in Sandwell is a wellbeing project for unaccompanied asylum seeking children and newly arrived young people across Sandwell, working with Sandwell Children's Trust, local schools and community groups to provide advice, arts therapy and counselling. By bringing the young people of Sandwell together we are strengthening connections and community. Our family support offer will support families of these asylum-seeker children to target the underlying issues that affect wellbeing such as housing, benefits and employment.
Creative Art Therapies for Children and Young people in Sandwell.
by 4 Community Trust CiC
Emotional Wellbeing Support Services at 4 Community Trust, will offer children Art, Lego and Music Therapy. 4 Community Trust's programmes aim to expand children’s emotional vocabulary, heighten emotional awareness, and develop emotional coping strategies whilst boosting overall mood and confidence.
Extra Time
by The Albion Foundation
Extra Time provides cost free targeted intervention work across the borough of Sandwell to vulnerable young people who are at risk of
entering the criminal justice system. The programme will provide bespoke 1 to 1 mentoring for young people from school years 9-
13 (13-18 years of age) aiming to build resilience, increasing self-confidence; self-esteem and raise aspirations of the young
people which will build on their existing skill set and steer them away from any future criminal activity.