The Worcester Warriors Foundation: Engaging and inspiring our community through the power of sport
Worcester Warriors Foundation is proud to be at the heart of the local community. As a charity, they care about the wellbeing of all participants who they engage with through their diverse range of initiatives which aim to connect, inspire and support.
Wellbeing Café
Every Monday a group of young people visit the wellbeing café. The cafe supports the mental health of vulnerable members of the community through fun activities which promote social connection.
Mentoring
Each Wednesday several young people attend mentoring sessions at the Warriors Foundation. This program aims to help, uplift, and support young people through tricky times in their lives whilst also improving their social skills, developing positive self-esteem, promoting teamwork and sharing and creating greater focus for their life goals.
Worcester City Council’s Youth Intervention Team visits school on a Monday morning and provides bespoke mentoring sessions to several young people who may be struggling with issues related to drugs, alcohol, sexual exploitation and abusive relationships.
Worcestershire County Council’s vision is for Worcestershire to be a wonderful place for all children and young people to grow up and this includes ensuring that the mental health needs of all young people and their families are met. As a school, we work closely with several teams within WCC including early help, children’s social care, Get Safe and SEND services. We have our own Educational Psychologist, Vicky De Cloedt, who visits school regularly and works with staff, young people and their families to ensure that school is meeting a range of needs.
WMRSASC works with children and young people, aged between 5-18 years, who have been directly or indirectly impacted by sexual abuse. Their Purple Leaf education program is delivered to small groups of young people at school throughout the academic year. This encourages pupils to develop healthy relationships with support their mental health and wellbeing.
Worcestershire Cranstoun Here4YOUth visits young people in school to offer advice, support and guidance with their own or someone else’s drug or alcohol misuse. The wonderful team of workers meet with young people on a one-to-one basis but also run drop-in sessions regularly on Tuesday mornings.
Spare Krab is a nature-based therapy, adventure, experiential outdoor-learning, and talking therapy designed to improve mental wellbeing. Several young people access this provision each week, going out with Stephan and his team to be in nature and reflect on their life experiences.
Longlands is the vision of Julia Evans, its founder and CEO. Over a decade of operation she has been widely recognised as an extraordinary practitioner. Set at the heart of a large organic livestock farm in the beautiful countryside of the Herefordshire and Worcestershire borders, Longlands provides mentoring and specialist mental health support to several of our young people on a weekly basis.
Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS)
CAMHS is the name for the NHS services that assess and treat young people with emotional and mental health difficulties. In recent years, emotional and mental health problems among adolescents have been on the rise. Some of these include anxiety, low mood and stress. Sleeping is another major problem reported by young people in the last years.
We make referrals to the CAMHS Single Point of Access which triages referrals and assigns young people to a level of support which is most helpful to them. We also make referral to the CAMHS Reach4Wellbeing Service for young people who feel they may benefit from group therapy.
CAMHS WEST This is a relatively new early intervention service integrated in education settings to promote children and young people’s emotional wellbeing, keeping the child’s voice at the heart. From September 2024 we will welcome Amanda Bennet as our assigned Education Mental Health Practitioner (trainee) and Anne Campion as our Senior Practitioner. Both Amanda and Anne will work closely with Zoe Kingston (Designated Mental Health Lead) and members of the SLT to continue to improve our whole school approach to Mental Health and Wellbeing as well as provide targeted support to some young people
FASST is a support team for young people and their families with solution focused support to overcome challenges and hurdles. This support can be family focused, community based or 1:1 sessions. They understand the challenging role of being a parent or carer and trying to balance supporting young people with managing the everyday demands of being an adult!
They are trained to deliver a range of programs for young people and families; individuals and small groups.
They use a holistic and flexible approach to empower families and young people to be increasingly self-sufficient. They work collaboratively with education colleagues and those from specialist services to ensure the right service at the right time.
