Young Peoples Support

Floating Support

The first steps to independent living can be daunting and often the hardest ones to take. With Floating Support from Bright Sky Youth Services, a young person has that extra support and guidance to help them succeed and move forward.

Bright Sky Youth Services can provide Floating Support in the home of the young person or in the community. The help provided can be tailored to help with many parts of the young person’s new independent living such as:

• Setting up utility accounts
• Budgeting, particularly to ensure that fuel charges are paid
• Health and well-being support
• Helping to develop social networks
• Guidance with accessing community facilities such as leisure and education
• Confidence building

Support for UASC

Our management team has 17 years’ experience in working with Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Young People – UASC in the UK. As such they have excellent understanding of the legal, practical and emotional needs of UASC.

Following an assessment of the young person’s needs. we will arrange for the required assistance and support to be provided. We also assist with accessing other support agencies using the services of a translator if required. e.g. Health, Education and Immigration Support.

We endeavour to assist any young person we are supporting who wishes to trace their family overseas; we do this in partnership with the Red Cross.
We also assist young people we are supporting in seeking emotional support caused by severe trauma and will put them in touch with the relevant help required.

Before young people are 18 years, we will work with the UASC social services team to contact the appropriate agencies to try and ensure a smooth transfer. Once young people have reached the age of 18 years support is available from the Local Authority via The Through Care team up until the age of 25 years.

We focus on helping our young people to develop and maintain as much independence and control over their lives as possible, whilst developing and improving their self-confidence, self-esteem, motivation and well-being. Our services are delivered by trained and experienced support workers and qualified professionals. Services can be provided 24hrs a day 365 days a year, with a staff member on site 24/7.

Bespoke Services

At Bright Sky Youth Services, we truly appreciate that each young person is unique. We have the provisions in place and the flexibility of service to adapt and tailor our services to young people’s specific needs.
This may include increased and targeted levels of support, with additional staff supervision and onsite presence which can include sleeping on site as required.
We also have the resources to confidently provide our bespoke services to young people with a complex needs that may include:

• Young people subject to a Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS)
• Learning difficulties
• Mental health problems
• Victims of exploitation
• Offending behaviours

By engaging positively with the young person, we will support them to make small positive changes to establish a new direction in their journey to employment, training and a meaningful connection with the community.

Activities

We will offer a variety of holistic opportunities in the hope that our YP will engage with and develop positive memories of their time with us.

We believe that these initiatives will also offer an opportunity to talk/ engage with our YP about life choices, including the impact that movement, food and lifestyle can have on independent living and long-term resilience, and healing.

Our YP will an integral part of planning this provision. During our initial three years, we plan to offer:

• Young persons (YPs) birthday celebrations
• Quarterly focus groups or one-to-one feedback sessions
• Monthly secular yoga and mindfulness classes
• Monthly cookery classes to prepare tasty, healthy and economic meals
• Monthly group/individual trips and activities
• Celebrations for important cultural and religious days for YP, ensuring all ethnicities and religions are able to enjoy these special moments