Enrich. Nurture. Achieve.
What does this mean?
The main aims of our service are to:
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Enrich a young persons life so that they have various ways of communicating their wants and needs, and feel happy, content and safe.
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Nurture both the family and the young person throughout the work by helping them to understand that behaviour is a form of communication. We want to help families to develop an understanding about why behaviours are happening at home, and to increase their confidence around introducing tools and strategies at home to change the environment and better support their young person.
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We want to create collaborative goals and outcomes with the family and the young person if possible, and help them to achieve these and overall improve their quality of life.
Collaboration
Why is this so important to us?
We know that for a lot of families they often feel misheard by professionals, or are frequently told "what to do" whether it fits within their lifestyle or not. We have learnt over the years that us making the plan together and learning about behaviour is the easy part; the most challenging is putting in the plan consistently.
If you are trying to implement a behaviour support plan that doesn't align with your values, or doesn't fit within your lifestyle, it will be highly unlikely that you will want to put in the plan at all. Our mission in our work together is not "tell you what to do" but to discuss options of strategies that may be helpful for your family and to work together to create a behaviour support plan that you will feel confident in and be motivated to introduce at home.
Assent & Consent
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Consent | noun | permission or agreement for something to happen
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Assent | verb | the expression of approval or agreement
Through-out our work together, we will require your on-going consent to engage with our service, however alongside this we would also love to get your young person's consent for you to work with us.
Although this is not a formal requirement of the work, and some of our young people may not have the capacity to consent to the work, we have experienced that work is more successful if the young person is part of the process.
Even if we are unable to gain official "consent" from the young person, we will be asking you to continually monitor your child's "assent" within the work. This means that we will be looking at their behaviour when presented with the strategies to see whether they engage willingly or not. If we are seeing behaviours that suggest they may not be interested, this would be something that would need to be reported back to us to ensure that we are altering the strategies to suit our young persons wants and needs.