BLAST 14-19
CREATIVE EXPRESSION AND PERSONAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAMME FOR CHALLENGING YOUNG PEOPLE BEING NEET or AT RISK of BEING NEET.
Creative Expression has linked up with Cornwall Council to create an effective support programme for children with severe communication and personal management problems and their carers.
It will offer youngsters, who struggle with educational settings and sociably acceptable interaction, ways to understand their personal information processing, to express and to communicate their needs and to regain confidence in learning, interacting and ‘belonging’. The programme will engage the youngsters in creative thinking using holistic, non-linear processing formats (Footnotes©), creative expression and innovative interaction. It creates fast and tangible changes in self esteem, self perception, academic ability and attitudes.
The most severely disaffected of participants, and those who struggle with underlying mental health issues and traumas, will be supported through therapeutic methods, ether in one-to-one or small group sessions.
The programme is designed to build on existing expertise while enhancing creative management tools for the participating case workers and carers. Both non-accredited and accredited activities are part of this project.
This work is partly funded and therefore available at subsidised prices/free.
Free Range 19+
CORNWALL COUNCIL AND THE LSC HAS COMMISSIONED US TO SUPPORT YOUNG ADULTS WHO HAVE A DISABILITY TO OVERCOME PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO GET EDUCATION, TRAINING AND WORK.
Key elements in order to attract positive and effective engagement are;
Respect and dignity
Accessibility to material, venues, documents, equipment, meeting times
Flexibility of the provisions to include personal adjustments and preferences e.g. Working with a carer or family member
Continues reviews and
Adjustable steppingstones of an Individual Development Plan
Activities are centered on individual needs and circumstances, all designed to make clients feel at ease in a relaxed and non-threatening but ultimately challenging way.
The project will offer individual sessions, work and social support, outreach, group sessions, integration into mainstream. Activities are based on a personal key worker forming a trust relationship with the client.
The project includes non-accredited and accredited parts.
This project is funded by the LSC/County Council.
This work is partly funded and therefore available at subsidised prices/free.
The Carers Activity Network
CAN-DO 7-17
EXCLUSIVELY FOR ABLE BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF DISABLED CHILDREN
We have, got together with Cornwall Council and the Children, Schools and Families team and Bernados to provide supportive and inspiring respite activities
The activities are designed to be safe fun, supportive and understanding and encouraging for those siblings who are used to ‘have to wait’ and to be ‘patient’ and understanding’ due to their disabled brother or sister.
We understand that these boys and girls have a great wealth of experience, maturity and love, but that their day to day life is often ruled by the needs of others, and that they have to make more adjustments and compromises than other children at their age due to their family set up.
Therefore we want to bring groups of these siblings together, to enjoy fun activities, stretch their imagination, build confidence and pride, and share their experiences confidentially.
We run a group for children 7-12 years and 13+ every first Saturday in Liskeard, followed by a residential and a celebration day at Eden. We are hoping that this pilot is generating a lot of interest and that we are able to secure further funds for this work next year.
This work is fully funded by the Council and free for participants.