We provide emergency support which can include overnight accommodation, transporting young people to new placements, support to homeless and transition work from children to adult services. We have staff available to support in hospital for those that require observation or extra support due to their mental wellbeing.

We provide support and provision for children and young people aged 0-25 who may be at risk of exclusion and for those that are excluded.

We also support children whilst a new education placement is being sourced or whilst their needs are being assessed by specialists.

The children and young people may also need additional support when life gets extra difficult and they may be Children In Need or Children on Care Plans.

South West Intervention Services has the expertise and resources to re-engage young people with learning by addressing individual barriers, developing general confidence and social skills, and recognising and managing their emotions, feelings and responses appropriately.

We offer strategies to manage behaviour positively and opportunities to help Children grow emotionally and socially. Staff are experienced in working with children and young people with additional needs included Autism, PDA, OCD & also Mental Health concerns including self harm and withdrawn behaviours.

We work 1:1 and in small groups and through creative learning and experiential activities we can identify how best we can meet the childs needs and design a flexible and ‘needs’ led programme to meet these needs, our activities to promote wellbeing can include:

• Animal Husbandry
• Therapy dogs
• Swimming
• Climbing
• Arts & Crafts
• Sport to include Football with qualified Coach, Badminton & Tennis
• Cookery
• Forest School
• Horse Care and Riding
• Gardening
• Mountain Biking

Some of our intervention programmes include:

Turnaround

This intervention is aimed at young people who are at risk of exclusion from education, their family and the wider community and/or involved in, or at risk of, anti-social behaviour. It aims to support young people to develop strategies by enabling a better understanding of the impact of their behaviours; increasing positive aspirations and confidence and improving their self-image. This is achieved through 1:1 support and engagement in positive activities and can include transitional work for reintegration.

What’s life

This intervention is aimed at young people who need additional support and input in relation to health personal safety and well-being issues. It focuses on safeguarding, drug and alcohol use, sexual heath, self/body image and healthy eating/lifestyles.   This is achieved through; 1:1 support, small group work sessions, project and special interest work.

Protective Behaviours

Safety awareness interventions for children and young people, which aim to build self-esteem and increased confidence and assertiveness relating to feeling and being safe and include Independent skills and personal development.

Anger Management

A programme aimed at enabling young people to develop skills and strategies for dealing with anger. It focuses on the difference between anger and aggression, raising awareness of personal anger/stress relating to transitions, reducing destructive behaviours and identifying early warning signs.

Friends – Emotional resilience

An emotional resilience programme that incorporates physiological, cognitive and behavioural strategies aimed at assisting children and young people in coping with stress and worry.

How we meet the needs:

Through therapeutic support programmes in an environment that is safe, welcoming and inclusive to each young persons individual need and with a team that are qualified, trained, experienced to meet the Childs needs.

We are a child center service - regular consultation with children and young people to ensure provision, equipment and services are meeting their needs, is integral to our approach -We work alongside other professionals that are involved with the child ensuring that the child and their families’ voices are hard and by working together with clear communication.

We equip children and young people with life and social skills and strategies to enable them to transition into adulthood.  For example our vocational qualifications ensure that independent skills and career options and opportunities are offered through ‘hands on’ learning and accreditation.  This can include, Cookery, Budgeting and Money Management, Work Experience, skills to equip emotionally, life and social skills and help with Drug and Alcohol issues, sexual issues, Domestic Violence, Teenage pregnancy and criminology issues.

We also provide Family Support and can facilitate Supervised Contact.

We are able to provide emergency 24 hour overnight support for those needing to change placements or maybe homeless