Young Greenwich can help you, as a community provider, to support young people

CACT mentoring and positive diversionary activities

CACT delivers a range of diversionary work for young people aged 8-19 (25 SEND) who are involved in risky behaviours or at risk of exploitation and/or being drawn into criminal activity.

1-1  mentoring

CACT employs a pool of mentors with a range of lived experience, knowledge and backgrounds; this allows us to match mentors with the needs and interests of the young people we support. We offer between 3-6 months of 1-1 sessions depending on the needs of the young person but it is targeted at those young people most at risk.

Enrichment and diversionary sessions

Young people that have positively engaged in 1-1 mentoring may be offered further enrichment and diversionary opportunities.

As an example, we deliver blocks of 10-week activities that are designed to be exciting and challenging. Groups of 10 young people attend weekly, learning new skills, building self-confidence and making new friends. Examples of activities include water sports, rock climbing, theatre trips and team challenges. To maximise female participation we run female only activity blocks delivered by female mentors.

If you are interested in referring a young person, please complete the referral form here or contact us to discuss.

Young Greenwich offers a range of health services for young people

The Xplore programme

The Xplore programme provides a friendly, fun and safe environment to help family’s lead healthier lifestyles and become more active.

The Xplore service is aimed at children, young people (aged 4-19 years) and their families who are above a healthy weight.

Our weekly programmes take place across our Better Leisure Centres and Children Centres, or virtually with programmes split across 3 age groups; 4-6 years, 7-14 years and 15-19 years. The service offers ongoing support to families after completing the programme to help them to maintain a healthier lifestyle.

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Sexual Health Services

Free condom scheme:

If you are sexually active, using condoms is a safe and effective way to prevent unplanned pregnancies and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs).

The C- card scheme is a confidential service, aiming to ensure that all young people have access to free condoms and advice if they decide to become sexually active.

Condoms can be collected from a pharmacy, sexual health clinic or youth club (if you are aged 13-21)

Chlamydia screening

Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK. It's passed on through unprotected sex (sex without a condom) and is particularly common in sexually active teenagers and young adults.

As part of the NHS national chlamydia screening programme, we deliver free chlamydia testing kits to your home. It is very important that you and your partner(s) get tested regularly and are provided with a free, safe and confidential way to do so.

To order a kit from us and find out more information visit https://greenwichsexualhealth.org/ or https://www.checkurself.org.uk/

Young Greenwich offers a range of health services for parents

Support for parents of teenagers

The service is aimed at helping to equip and empower parents of teens to achieve better outcomes for their own mental health and wellbeing and that of their families.
 
The overall support includes:
 
Peer support

A safe space to talk about issues

Support around managing children’s difficult behaviour

Tips on how to manage your feelings; are fun and interactive

Our family support include talking about feelings and coping strategies, discussing behavioural support for managing children Increasing confidence and resilience

Planning for change, and providing signposting and referral to other sources of support, both individual and group

Counselling for parents to discuss parenting and issues causing stress in the parent’s/families’ life

Providing time and space for parents to focus on their lives, aside from being in the role of a parent

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Support for parents of primary school children

Parenting Drop- ins

Parent drop ins in every hub run by the Health Advisors to support parents with child health issues such as bed-wetting, behaviour, sleep and healthy lifestyles. Invitation to the parent group sessions for specific targeted interventions are offered and referral to other health services such as Paediatrician, audiology, speech and language, child&adolescent mental health and continence team, can be completed with parental consent. Open to all families of school aged children across Greenwich. Health Advisors will work with parents of children aged 5-11 years (Primary School ages) and support referral to the Parenting Support Programme for those parents of Secondary school age children.

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Young Greenwich offers educational support

Free tutoring for key stage 2, 3 and 4

This offer is beneficial because:

• CACT will engage an education partner to deliver tutoring support using the Schools Online resources. The delivery will be by qualified teachers.

• The education session will be followed by a youth work session as a reward for attending

• The sessions are based at our Youth Hubs

• The sessions will be delivered by a qualified teacher and a Young Greenwich youth worker with a class size between 10-15.

• The programme will run once a week for 10 weeks with an initial assessment and endline assessment conducted by Schools online to measure academic progress

• Quality assurance will be delivered by head of CACT education

• The offer is free

To make a referral please visit here