Leeds Counselling
Key Facts
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Project Criteria
Contact
Jon Davis
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Project funding
£108,303
Funding round
Leeds Counselling is a charity which aims to improve life-chances by promoting psychological, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Our focus is on providing inclusive and accessible services, particularly to excluded groups, and we have a track record in supporting marginalised families in Leeds. We will be using a Parenting Fund grant to extend our existing work supporting disadvantaged families in inner south Leeds by engaging an outreach family therapist alongside our existing 3 outreach counsellors. The project will target families with children under 11 living in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, particularly where relationships are adversely affected by parental problems (eg offending behaviour, addiction, mental illness, or repeated patterns of conflict and distress), and/or where children are displaying low-level emotional or conduct disorders; the work will focus on those who find it difficult to access existing support services. The aim is to strengthen family relationships and resilience (including in families where there is parental separation/divorce), to improve outcomes and life chances for children, and to promote social inclusion through enabling access to appropriate early intervention support for these families.
We anticipate supporting 270-300 families with identified social exclusion issues plus compounding factors, and will work with community host agencies and referrers (CAMHS, LCC Children's Centres, local community centres & schools, Leeds Children's Services). Outcomes will be measured using CORE and SDQ clinical outcome questionnaires.