We believe that every young person's life is full of potential.
It's why we're committed to helping young people in care and those leaving care, overcome adversity and build safe, fulfilling and meaningful lives.
Young people in care are amongst the most disadvantaged in society, most having suffered serious abuse or trauma in early life. Many have to leave care before they're ready, often with unaddressed mental health issues, and desperately lacking the support they need to cope with the transition into adulthood.
Without the support a loving family provides, they feel alone and disenfranchised by a system that repeatedly fails them.
Through supporting young people aged 13 to 21 years old we offer a holistic package of support to young people at this crucial time, that has a lasting positive impact on their future mental, physical and social well-being.
The Young Futures' team are trauma-informed and understand that young people in care have experiences of adversity and developmental trauma. We recognise the signs and symptoms we see in problematic behaviour as survival strategies in response to threats and dangers.
Whilst we know that developmental trauma takes place within relationships, we also know that it can also be repaired within relationships when we are kind, compassionate, and caring in everything we do.
What we do
1-to-1 support
An important part of our role as carers for young people with developmental trauma is to help them regulate their big emotions. Through relationship building, and by using different strategies, tools and resources, we believe we can support the development of critical social and emotional skills for emotional regulation.
Therapy
Therapy aids recovery from trauma, raises self-esteem, develops emotional resilience and fosters healthy relationships. So we create tailored programmes for each young person from our range of in-house therapies, which include Integrative Counselling, Music Therapy, and Speech and Lanaguage Therapy.
A safe place to live
We believe that a trauma-informed approach begins with the interior design and layout of the physical environment. In providing a modern, state-of-the-art, comfortable, and aspirational home, young people will feel safe, valued and invested in.
Our innovative therapeutic approach is at the heart of everything we do.
By addressing our young people's emotional well-being, we promote resilience
and independence, helping them towards a brighter future.
To put it another way, we don't just turn the light on for them.
We show them how to find the switch
Young Futures Social Care
info@youngfutures.org.uk 127 Lambeth Walk, London. SE11 6EE
For placement enquires and/or to request a Statement of Purpose please call: Osman Jama on 07811 155838
Business/Admin Monday to Friday 9am-5pm Tel: 07811 155 838
Community out-of-hours on-call Monday to Friday 5pm to 9am, weekends and Bank Holidays Tel: 07435 964 589
Yvonne House duty 24/7 Tel: 07896 102 842