What Do You Get With Our Programmes?

Advocacy enables us to be your voice when you feel you can’t. Particularly having to repeat your situation with other professionals.

We can advocate during Housing Applications (DA related), Children in Need meetings, Child Protection meetings, Mental Health, Protection Orders, Legal Aid supporting letters, MARAC (high risk cases), GP, SETDV applications, Court Hearings (Family & Criminal proceedings), and more.

We can signpost you to other services we feel would help you on your journey. We will give you options, so we can help support your best choices.

When an individual needs support urgently, we are there to support. This normally relates to safety planning, protection orders, food, clothes, toiletries, items for your new place, applying for grants, referrals to refuge, support with travelling to a refuge and more.

People who know their strengths and use them frequently tend to feel happier, have better self-esteem, and are more likely to accomplish their goals. However, many people have a hard time identifying their strengths. They see them as ordinary, even when they are not.

We can help you identify your strengths, teach you to spot strengths in others, help you become familiar with your own strengths, and finally, help you develop and use your strengths to create positive changes in your life.

Hurtful memories can stifle your development and growth. How do you break through this mental conditioning? How do you change and grow so that you can live your dreams? 

The first step is to break the hold of these inhibiting influences from the past. Recognise them and then either get rid of them or turn them into a positive force that pushes you ahead rather than holds you back.

This programme will help you Identify these inhibiting memories in your life so that you control them rather than allowing them to control you. 

Great for those who want to find creative ways to escape trauma and isolation. You can meet new friends who have shared similar experiences. Its purpose is to be more mindful and settled in the moment. You can bring a support worker, family member or friend for support during the activities. They are required to register as well. Our Peer Mentors are present at our activities.

The Gateway Programme for domestic abuse recovery will be offered in a group unless you prefer 1-2-1. The 5 sessions will be done face to face over the course of 10 weeks. Each session is 2 hours. Commitment is vital. In between each session, we will have a check in. Check ins are done over the phone, virtually or face to face. 

Session 1 - Myths and Facts

Session 2 - Cycle of Control 

Session 3 - Families 

Session 4 -Why is it hard to leave and safety planning? 

Session 5 - Moving Forward

Emotional Safety Care Plan

Emphasis is often placed on planning around physical safety, but do not consider their emotional wellbeing when they create a safety plan. Emotional safety looks different for different people, but planning for your emotional safety is ultimately about developing a personalised plan that helps you feel accepting of your emotions and decisions when dealing with abuse or during the recovery.

Online Creative Journaling

Starting 2025

We offer a 4-week group session quarterly. Creative journaling is a form of self-expression that allows you to record your thoughts, feelings, and ideas. This type of journaling can be used to work through problems, to come up with new ideas, or just to relax and reflect on your day.

Visual Expression Art

Monthly in Stroud currently

Monthly group sessions launching end of September 2024. One does not need to be an artist or have any special skills to express oneself through artmaking. You don't have to be good at art. These sessions are not about what you are creating. It’s the process of creating that really matters.

Emotional Intelligence

8 Sessions - Emotional Intelligence X

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to perceive, understand, and manage one’s own emotions and relationships. It involves being aware of emotions in oneself and others and using this awareness to guide thinking and behaviour. Emotionally intelligent individuals can motivate themselves, read social cues, and build strong relationships. This is offered online over 8 months. We will have 3 cohorts a year.

**Referrals from our Peer Mentor Consultants only**

Family Approach Support

We offer this help for clients who need direct or indirect support for the family unit. Individuals who are looking to refer their children for support, you'll have to complete the Gateway Programme which is our Domestic Abuse Recovery Programme. There are 5 sessions over the course of 10 weeks. Direct support for children & young people (Family Unit) will be offered in Spring 2025.



*Referral restrictions apply