Health & Wellbeing
Whispers equine assisted learning programme
Published: 02/09/2024
Located in Neath Port Talbot, Wales, the Whispers equine assisted learning (EAL) programme is a unique trauma-informed intervention. Delivered in partnership with the local youth justice service and social services, the programme combines the benefits of experiential learning involving horses with expert guidance from trained facilitators.
Allotment wellbeing project ‘Sown and Grown’ at Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly YJS
Published: 05/08/2024
‘Sown and Grown’ is an allotment wellbeing project open to children referred to the Blaenau Gwent & Caerphilly youth justice service.
Cheshire Youth Justice Service: Using social prescribing to reduce reoffending among young people
Published: 31/07/2024
Cheshire Youth Justice Service have focussed on addressing young people’s unmet health needs to tackle reoffending. The creation of the Cheshire-wide youth justice partnership in 2017 highlighted inequalities in justice-involved children’s health provision, which they have worked to address, and are now taking an innovative social prescribing approach to meet the wider health needs of their youth justice cohort.
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