Building on the success of its Skills for Living programme for Care Experienced Young People (CEYP) in Wales, Action for Children has remodelled the service and launched Skills Plus.
Skills Plus offers several pathways of support for CEYP aged 14-24 and provides support tailored to their individual needs.
Emma Llewelyn, young person’s practitioner on the project, said: ‘Skills Plus is a psychosocial skills building intervention for young people leaving care. We provide a therapeutic intervention based on Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to improve the emotional and social well-being of young people as they negotiate the challenging issues when leaving care.
‘The service is for young people who experience significant distress and relationship difficulties, who struggle to maintain consistency and who may not be fulfilling their potential. There is also a focus on working to give young people the practical and life skills to enable them to transition into happy, healthy adults.’
Emma added: ‘The service has adapted to the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic to ensure critical support is maintained. As we are unable to carry out face to face meetings, we speak on the phone and text weekly. We also send out motivational wellbeing emails and hold video chat sessions when possible and remain open and accessible to this very vulnerable group at a very worrying time in their lives.’
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