Description

We provide support for vulnerable young people from 12 to 25 years old to have friendships outside of school and colleges. People we support have learning disabilities and difficulties, autism spectrum, mental health and children in care. We help link up friiends from school and offer volunteers and paid staff depending on the level of need.

See our provider store for more information about our organisation.

Our objective is to improve the lives of vulnerable young disabled people across the Barking and Dagenham area by increasing their social contacts and community experiences. We will do this by developing friendships using valued (by non disabled young people) resources, providing family support to gain everyone’s confidence and enabling peer support through actively encouraging friendships between both young people and their families.

We will support them to recruit staff and bring them together to share costs – thereby pooling resources and delivering best value for money.

We will facilitate community involvement and development via inclusion for all. As a result of our service young people will evidence a measurable increase in social interactions leading to increased levels of independence and empowerment, reduced feelings of social isolation and exclusion and improved mental, emotional and physical wellbeing. They will also benefit from increased levels of confidence and self esteem increasing their potential to find employment or participatory adult activities.

We also aim to develop a workforce for the future – supporting volunteers to develop skills and experience.

More information can be found on our leaflet here.

Service Availability
Evenings, weekends, holidays

Booking information

To book this service we will need to do a home visit to complete an assessment, meet parents and the young person and look at friendships and links. We bring in school staff and anyone as a reference to help establish friendships from the school environment.

Please contact us to arrange this home visit. Once this has been completed you will then be able to pay for this service online using your Short Breaks Grant.

Cost
£11.42 an hour
Please note the price shown is a typical cost for this service and is dependent on your individual needs and requirements. Once these have been discussed we can confirm a price.