Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

Meet The Silent Disco Project CIC

Posted inBeds, Cambs, CSE, East England, East Mids, Essex, Herts, Kent, Norfolk, Northants, SuffolkTags:
Within this DICM area The Silent Disco Project CIC offers local charity, youth services or education setting an expert resource as therapeutic musical experiences for children and young people - particularly those with special educational needs or disabilities, or as part of ongoing youth development services and long-term pathways.This social enterprise's…
The PALS Programme

The PALS Programme

Posted inCSE, West Mercia, West MidlandsTags:
The Professional Action Learning Sets (PALS) Programme is a strategic programme designed to tackle barriers to career progression for ethnically diverse police officers and staff within West Mercia Police, and eventually forces across the region.  PALS is an important strand in how police engage with communities and directly supports the objectives…
Meet Catch22

Meet Catch22

Posted inCSE, West Mercia, West MidlandsTags:
STEPS (Support Through Exploitation and Prevention Service).Support within West Mercia for children aged 8-18 and young people up to the age of 24 with additional needs, who are impacted by Child Criminal Exploitation or Child Sexual Exploitation.This strategically important provision is an integrated model providing trauma-informed prevention and intervention support for…
New Worcester-based domestic abuse service launched by two local charities.

New Worcester-based domestic abuse service launched by two local charities.

Posted inCSE, Main News, West Mercia, West MidlandsTags:
West Mercia Women's Aid (WMWA) and Worcester Community Trust (WCT) have joined forces to provide the Worcester Community-Based Abuse Support Service. The service, which will cost £235,000 to run and will be funded by Worcestershire County Council, will offer confidential support to those affected by domestic abuse across Worcestershire. In addition,…
Meet Guiding Young Minds (GYM)

Meet Guiding Young Minds (GYM)

Posted inCSE, East England, East Mids, West Mercia, West MidlandsTags:
Guiding Young Minds (GYM) grew and developed from the charity ASSIST Trauma Care; a specialist therapeutic organisation dedicated to supporting people who have suffered psychological trauma. GYM is now a therapeutic service which recognises that young people caught up in gangs and knife crime have often experienced adverse childhood events. The…
STEPs Project by Catch 22

STEPs Project by Catch 22

Posted inCSE, West Mercia, West MidlandsTags:
Catch22 begins delivering a new Support Through Exploitation and Prevention Service (STEPS) commissioned by the West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner.   With over ten years of experience supporting victims of child exploitation across England, Catch22 is bringing this knowledge to West Mercia to provide both preventative support and expert care to children…
Meet Boxing Clever MK

Meet Boxing Clever MK

Posted inCSE, South East, Thames ValleyTags:
Boxing Clever MK originally operated as a Community Interest Company (CIC) established by a police officer as an early intervention program to help young people develop social and emotional skills. The program has expanded to include multiple locations and partnerships with schools and in 2024, converted to a Community Interest Organisation…
Caudwell Youth Outcomes report February 2023

Caudwell Youth Outcomes report February 2023

Posted inCSE, South East, Staffs, Surrey, Sussex, Warks, West Mercia, West Midlands, WMidsTags:
We are Caudwell Youth, a mentoring charity, working with young people at-risk aged 11-24. We specialise in mental health, at risk of offending, exploitation and care experience. As part of local strategic safer and more resilient communities objectives, we work towards positive outcomes for each young person, by working with them…