Therapeutic support
YWHP provides trauma-informed, holistic support, based on individual needs. Together with specialist housing support practitioners and therapists, clients develop their support plan to enable them to achieve their personal goals, alongside independent living skills, therapeutic interventions and activities.
Our practitioners provide personalised, strength-based sessions helping clients make a successful transition to adulthood and living independently including budgeting and financial management and choices, tenancy support, health and wellbeing, cooking on a budget, practical cooking skills, career management, preparing for the world of work.
Sessions focus on: resilience, recovery and well-being, safe and healthy relationships, successful parenting, social and financial inclusion, effective future engagement with universal services and participation in the wider community.
Explore our therapeutic programmes
ETT is a simple, straightforward and accessible programme that we deliver on a one to one or group basis by our qualified practitioners. The programme is designed to help young people recognise and protect themselves from relationship abuse; encouraging them to explore how being treated with respect, care and love might be experienced.
Offering a flexible package of interventions, advice and guidance; ETT focusses on identifying and building personal strengths to develop and reinforce resilience; enabling young women to get back on their feet despite adversity, so they can deal with and recover from challenges they face in their lives; helping them to protect themselves, live independently and safely without abuse.
The core programme addresses:
- Expectations of relationships that make you feel bad
- Behaviours and beliefs of those who treat you badly
- Red flags for coercive behaviours
- How such behaviours impact on the way you feel about yourself
- Red flags for such behaviours early on in a new relationship
- Sexual health
PAFT is an evidence-based parenting support programme. PAFT provide flexible and personalised support by qualified practitioners, that enables parents to support their child to reach developmental milestones.
Parents are enabled to protect their children and give them the best possible start in life. PAFT specialist practitioners are child-focussed whilst helping parents to receive support to experience a positive relationship with their child and be more confident to engage with social welfare and health services.
Individual and group sessions celebrate successes and enable parents to achieve their parenting goals.
Sessions typically cover:
- Mother/child attachment and bonding
- Protective factors and behaviours
- Strengthening families and practical parenting
- Safety assessment and planning
- Child health, development and school readiness
- Sexual health
- Access to social welfare and health services
- Social events, family trips
Working with Child-to-parent violence and abuse, our qualified practitioners deliver WIC programmes on a one-to-one and group basis. This programme is aimed at parents whose children are being abusive or violent towards them or who appear to be out of parental control.
Overall aims:
- Reduce feelings of isolation and reinforce belief in the possibility of change
- Challenge feelings of guilt
- Raise awareness about causes
- Clarify boundaries of what is acceptable and unacceptable behaviour
- Examine strategies for creating meaningful and practical consequences for unacceptable behaviour
- Explore anger, both the child’s and parents
- Encourage assertiveness and self-care
- Reinforce progress and provide emotional support.
Our practitioners provide personalised, strength-based sessions to assist in achieving independent living goals. Clients are encouraged to complete ASDAN Living Independently Short Course where possible.
The ASDAN Living Independently Short Course is focused on helping clients make a successful transition to adulthood and living independently. Developed in collaboration with local authorities, the course supports the cross-government strategy to transform support for young people leaving care – ‘Keep on caring: supporting young people from care to independence’.
The flexibility of ASDAN’s Short Courses means that they can be carried out over a time period to suit the individual. The LI course comprises of 9 modules:
- Earning and spending money
- Keeping track of your money
- Making financial choices
- A place of your own
- Health and wellbeing
- Cooking on a budget
- Practical cooking skills
- Career management
- Preparing for the world of work
Exploring and healing from LGBTQ+ experiences of sexual and domestic abuse, gendered violence and power control.
Our Safe Space is a trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ inclusive programme designed to support LGBTQ+ survivors of abuse to understand their experiences, begin to heal and develop and maintain healthy relationships. It is a 6-session programme for LGBTQ+ participants only covering:
- Introducing Our Safe space
- Understanding abuse
- Strengths and coping
- Boundaries
- Radical self-care
- Moving forward
This group aims to:
- Improve self and body awareness, challenge beauty/body image ideals
- Build resilience and communication skills
- Reduce the risk of exploitation and abusive relationships developing