Our main focus is for the girls and young women placed in our care to become emotionally stable and self-sufficient in order to live independently.
We intend to empower them to ‘become the best versions of themselves’ (our mission statement).
We aim to:
- Provide the best possible care and therapeutic intervention to girls and young women who are in crisis.
- Prevent long-term in-patient or secure unit admissions, and to improve the life chances for each girl and young woman placed in our care.
- Provide each girl and young women with a safe, supportive and nurturing base, from which they can begin to develop self-awareness, self-respect, self-belief, independence and purpose.
- Integrate each girl and young women into the wider community, offering them the opportunity to develop confidence, motivation and resourcefulness to achieve goals in their life.
- Support each of them in gaining the necessary skills to begin to mentalise previously hidden internal experiences, to gain awareness of how these experiences resulted in a sense of alienation from themselves, their peers and society.
- Help each girl and young women to understand the consequences of destructive behaviour, and support them in developing other positive coping strategies.
- Encourage them to make informed choices based in their needs, rather than acting on impulse and/or peer pressure.
- Support them in developing an understanding as to why they are a looked after young person, and support them in overcoming the many difficulties that can be associated with this.
- We support and develop their abilities to be in formal or informal education and/or training, thus giving opportunity to positive social interaction.
- To work in partnership with local authorities, families (where appropriate), and/or other professionals who are faced with the dilemma of placing girls and young women with complex needs.
