121 Support

121 Individual Support

Individual Therapeutic Support offered to 8 – 25 year olds on an ongoing basis.

Support is offered through BACP / UKCP registered professionals. Our professionals are person-centred and multi-discipline trained and use a combination of support techniques to suit individual need.

Ongoing Service.
Age Range: 8 – 25 years old.You can refer into the service if you are 16 years or above. Referrals are accepted from individuals, parents/carers and any professionals working with children and young people.

Skills For Life

An impactful course-based programme to develop essential life skills in a nurturing environment for young people.

Participants engage in a variety of fun and relaxed activities incorporating technical, household, physical wellbeing and communication skills. In this supportive programme Arts for Life Project encourages and develops personal responsibility, independence and life skills.

This project is best suited to children and young people year 3 (age 8) and above.

Care is taken to match individual places with other participants. Personal  development is interlaced into each session without conscious awareness, thus creating a safe and secure environment for young people to enjoy, have fun, develop and grow.

Rolling Courses
Best suited to children and young people year 3 (age 8) and above.
Referrals are accepted from young people aged 16 and above, parents/carers and any CYP professionals.

Together Thrive

The Together Thrive programme pulls together three different types of support to provide our young people with a staged progression back into society.

Our young people have hidden complex challenges. We support issues including (but not exclusively): mental health concerns, high anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and autism.

Ongoing Service
Age: 8+
Referrals are accepted from young people aged 16 and above, parents/carers and any professionals working with children and young people.

Together Thrive offers:

Together Outreach: At Home Support
Together Inhouse: Clinical Therapeutic / Wellbeing Support
Together We Thrive: Mentor Support

Participants are invited into the Together Thrive programme through an initial referral form process and a meet and greet appointment.

Referrals can be received for individual clinical support or for open review of programme support at initial appointment. Referrals are accepted from young people aged 14 and above, parents/carers and any CYP professionals using the referral form.

Together Outreach

An At Home support programme designed to establish a wellbeing relationship, connection and a programme of support. Clinical staff engage, socialise and motivate independence and the ability to come outside of home. Arts For Life Project’s wellbeing practitioners and clinical counselling team work together to create opportunities for out of home intervention.

Together Inhouse

The Wellbeing and Clinical Team graduate Together Outreach participants into a Together Inhouse programme at the Arts for Life Project centre. They establish a safe and secure place for participants to access regularly whilst they continue their therapeutic journey back into society. A BACP registered clinical team are present to offer ongoing intervention for personal challenges, development and independence growth.

Together We Thrive

On developing a safe place for external interaction outside of the home, the young person will be invited to transfer into the Together We Thrive Mentor Programme where they are supported by a Community Youth Worker or Volunteer Mentor. This support creates achievable activities within the community. Working together with their Mentor they will build on independent life skills such as going shopping; visiting the park; interacting with peers; taking a bus or train. By creating achievable activities and working together to build independence. This facilitates the young person to re-integrate back into society.

Creative Crew

A weekly term-time project of fun and communication.

Our Creative Crew sessions empower children and young people by engaging with the therapeutic power of the arts within a group. The young people engage in a variety of fun and relaxed activities that encourage proactive mental health and emotional intelligence development.

The activities help to balance the internal dialogue that individuals use daily to manage their lives both consciously and subconsciously. Emotional development is interlaced into each session without conscious awareness creating a safe and secure environment for young people to enjoy, have fun, develop and grow.

Collaborative art balances individual talents with a common goal.

Weekly Term-time sessions.
This project is best suited to children and young people year 3 (age 8) and above.
Referrals are accepted from young people aged 16 and above, parents/carers and any CYP professionals.

A pre-requisite for this service is that the attending young person should have a love of the arts and be able to participate in a group setting.

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