Family Projects

We help build family resilience by giving you the tools to cope with life’s challenge, through mentoring, therapy and family support.

CYCA is the home of the Wales Emotional Health & Wellbeing Centre of Excellence.

Our core work over the last 40 years has been supporting children and young people. The more work we have done to support young people, the more we have understood recurring themes, issues, and solutions. Over the years we came to realise that treating just one part or one problem does not build resilience. We need to support the whole family unit, and in ways that are relevant to them. To this end we have developed a suite of support services for the families of the children and young people we work with. These services are listed below. Each has been developed to empower families for the long term, focusing on wellbeing and resiliency.

This section of the website focuses on the work we do to protect families. This work involves:

• Well-being Support
• Accredited Training
• Mentoring services
• Counselling support
• Heart of the Community Project

We work with a cross-section of society across Carmarthenshire and now, thanks to our online support services, we are supporting those most in need across Wales. Underpinning all our work is our resilience model, normalising mental ill health and emotional distress, promoting strategies to support good emotional health and wellbeing in individuals and the whole family.

Some Useful Resources 

We have pulled together some interesting resources from different sources. We will keep adding to these. We hope you find them useful. 

Resources:

There are some really useful links on the NSPCC LEarning website: COVID-19: information, resources and e-learning discounts to help you protect children during this challenging time learning.nspcc.org.uk/ 

• Association for Young People's Health The Association for Young People's Health (AYPH) is the UK's leading independent voice for young people's health. We work to improve the health and wellbeing of 10-24 year olds. Their newsletter includes resources that AYPH has published during the lockdown.
  
  
• NSPCC COVID-19: information, resources and elearning discounts to help you protect children during this challenging time learning.nspcc.org.uk/
• Meditations online can help with general well-being (they are currently offering FREE unlimited access to the Meditainment Library) 
  
  
• Thinkuknow CEOP Education Team have prepared Home activity packs to support parents during COVID-19. Each fortnight, there will be new home activity packs with simple 15 minute activities you can do with your child to support their online safety at a time when they will be spending more time online at home.
  
  
• Safeguarding during coronavirus: school governors and trustees 
  
  
• Talking to your child about online saftey: Advice on how to start the conversation and get support if you're worried.
  
  
• NSPCC helpline: We're still here for children and still here to support you. If you're worried about a child, or need advice, talk to the NSPCC
  
  
• Another useful resource is The Parents' Guide to Teaching your Teen Online Safety

Social Prescribing

CYCA is leading on an innovative Social Prescribing Project with a number of Llanelli GP surgeries. The project is to support children presenting with emotional distress...
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Well-Being Support

We deliver preventative and crisis support for vulnerable children, young people and their families. Through mentoring, therapy and...
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Accredited Training

We deliver accredited training to families to help them improve their well-being as well as gain skills and qualifications that will allow them...
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