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Helping vulnerable young people ReStart started fundraising!4 months ago
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We are asking for project funding to help us support disadvantaged children 8yrs + inc children in care through our ReStart program.This grant will help the most vulnerable children in our community.
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We are an independent charity just outside of Cirencester that works with CYP struggling with mental health challenges and not responding to talk based therapies. This project funding will help us to support the most vulnerable and disadvantaged CYP in our local community. - Fully fund 10 ReStart programmes a 5 day intensive 1-to-1 equine-assisted intervention with excellent evidence of efficacy - Offer unlimited top-up sessions to all participants - Enable us to offer weekly supported volunteering - Run Non verbal toolbox training for parents and/or carers What stands us apart from other equine interventions is that we have the research and evidence to show that the skills they learn do stick long term in everyday life. Our referral analysis from Bournemouth University demonstrates a gap in provision and need - our participants are on average involved with 2-3 agencies and have 4.2 serious mental health problems.
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Why it's a great idea:
Our ReStart program enables CYP who are unable to progress in conventional, talk-based services to access a specialist action-based service utilising horses to teach crucial psycho-social skills. Our programme is carefully designed to teach 8 core skills focused on emotional regulation, thinking skills and communication. A project we ran with the help of the BBC Children in Need showed a 23% average gain across these 8 skills for children and young people. Our Theory of Change, published by New Philanthropy Capital and peer reviewed by MoJ, evidenced the link between these 8 skills and 4 intermediate outcomes which we check up on 2 months post course: 1. positive changes in identity 2. improved attendance/engagement in education 3. reduced problem behaviours, 4. improved relationships. In our follow-up two months after our previous CiN project 85% of the CYP showed an improvement in intermediate outcome and 4. 71% showed improvements in outcome 3 and 58% in outcome 2.
Steps to get it done:
'Improving self-belief and positive changes in identity' We set “just right” challenges in which children struggle but crucially are ALWAYS coached to success in tricky, intricate tasks with the horses. These short episodes of learning each last about 10-20 minutes, with relentless success repeated over and over again for a whole week. It is clear to the children that success comes from mastering new skills in calmness, focus, perseverance. It is not founded just on “feeling great,” they actually learn to “BE great” and they know it! To culminate, they work with horses at liberty (no ropes), performing seemingly impossible tasks. This feels absolutely magical and has a profound impact on the way they see themselves and their abilities. At the end of every ReStart children plan a demonstration of everything they have learned in the week. One of our CYP this year, Amelia asked if we could share hers to help us help other young people https://youtu.be/uhkbcLk--Xk
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Supporting great ideas to make a greener, connected, healthier Cotswolds
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VolunteerCentred Horseplay is an independent charity founded in May 2016, we are based near Cirencester.
We deliver an evidence based ReStart course which is action-based, equine intervention designed to interrupt participants' usual thinking and emotional responses, whilst responsive to their individual pace and needs.
Our target group is unusually broad. We take c.60 referrals into our intensive ReStart programme per year from social care, mental health services, police, education, and specialist services. 75% are CYP. They have not progressed in talk-based services and are at a high level of need.
Typically our participants have a range of problems including social exclusion, offending, victims of violence, anxiety, depression, self harm, ADHA and ASD. Our programmes train people to recognise and manage anxiety or dominance which has been causing them to become disengaged, disorganised, shut down or aggressive.
The overarching need of our CYP is for a service which can help them develop core psycho-social skills so that they have the resilience to manage the challenges that life is throwing at them, whether situational or internal. Our CYP have found talking difficult and therefore need an action-based approach with real impact. For many of these we are often the last resort and we have good evidence that our participants are more willing to engage with other programmes after participating on our course, the ReStart.
During the ReStart we focus on improving eight core resilience skills. Learning is through a series of un-mounted tasks and challenges that increase in difficulty through the week - eg. getting a horse to kick a giant ball, jump a barrel, run, turn and stop in harmony with the participant with no ropes attached. Our horses are carefully selected and highly trained to provide clear and obvious feedback, requiring participants to model the 8 skills for the horse to positively respond and complete each challenge. Skills and habits are coached 'in the moment' - progress is reflected on, celebrated & recorded using our Skills Star, designed to help participants to apply the 8 skills to real-life situations.
Project Owner: Centred Horseplay The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
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