Kids Inspire ~ Family Bridges Project in Chelmsford, Essex

Target Group:

Families of children with complex social, emotional and behavioural needs who have difficulty accessing services.
Children and Young People who:
- Have experienced Trauma
- Live within a household where adult mental health issues impede personal development
- Live with Domestic Abuse (past present)
- Find it difficult to express their feelings
- ‘Act out’ aggressively
- Have had involvement with social care

Family Bridges Therapy Offers:

Focus on what it means to live in an environment of aggression and violence.
Explores challenges family members face.
Family members an understanding of the emotions that lie behind violent behaviour and make sense of their relationships.
De-escalation is taught to prevent family breakdown.
Involves families in workshop design, development/delivery.
Changes family dynamics – teaching parent skills of empathic communication for addressing complex family patterns.

Delivery:

Semi-structured programme of workshops enabling flexibility and adaptability to respond to changes, to individual participants’ needs.
Increasing autonomy: empowering parents/carers/children to engage proactively in Encounter Centred Therapy, which by its nature teaches participants to facilitate their own outcomes, moving away from service-led delivery.
Ten therapeutic workshops, delivered to groups of six Children and Young People, determined by age and/or gender.
Five therapeutic workshops, delivered to groups of up to twelve parents/carers, determined by the makeup of the children’s groups.
- Six hours of parent/child work learning Encounter Centred Therapy.

Referral forms can be requested by contacting clinicaladmin@kidsinspire.org.uk

For a copy of the Criteria document, click here: Family Bridges Criteria

For a copy of the Family Bridges Referral form, click here: Referral Form Family Bridges (2)

Please gain consent from the family before making the referral.

Funded by Essex County Council

For further information:

admin@kidsinspire.org.uk 01245 348707

Kids Inspire, Head Office, Fox Crescent, Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 2BL

Chelmsford CVS