We work with children and young people in a whole range of circumstances - anxiety, self-harm, trauma and abuse, relationship issues, or those who are worried and finding it hard to share their feelings. Increasingly we are working with children and young people who have been victims of sexual abuse/violence and bullying for whom there is no adequate statutory provision of support to help them.
We are a Chester based charity that offers counselling and play therapy support to families- adults, children and young people living in relative poverty who are experiencing mental health issues. We focus on strengthening family relationships and creating more stable and nurturing environments for children, recognising that a child's mental health is affected not only by past hurts and traumas, but also by the overall mental health and well-being of their parents or carers.
In October 2019, Freedom from Torture received a grant of £5,000 from the Pixel Fund. We used this grant to help provide a range of services for 107 children and young people who have been affected by torture. The grant helped us to provide: family therapy, individual psychological therapy, therapy groups, and social work.
The Listening Place is incredibly grateful to the trustees of The Pixel Fund for choosing to support our work with young people. There has been a worrying increase in the number of young people taking their own life or feeling suicidal and the economic and social fallout from Coronavirus will provide further specific challenges for young people.
We are so grateful to the Trustees of the Pixel Fund for their support of our work supporting families who are caring for a seriously ill child. When a child is diagnosed with a terminal illness, family life is turned upside down and their lives are changed forever. Rainbow Trust supports families through this crisis, pairing each family with a dedicated Family Support Worker to provide practical and emotional support to help them cope with each new day.
We will be providing individual therapy sessions specifically to children and young people from ages 5-18 who have experienced poverty, neglect, emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse, violence, aggression, trauma or self-harm. The therapy sessions will prevent negative behaviours becoming pathological.
In the last 12 months since receiving the funding from the pixel fund, York Mind have supported 183 young people in the Choose Your Way Project, and 158 young people in Young People’s Counselling. The funding has supported us to offer this provision, allowing young people aged between 8-25 within York to access a range of options of mental health support. These options included peer support groups, art & life skills groups, and one-to-one mentoring and counselling.
“Employ your Mind is a long-established and highly acclaimed personal development, self-management and employability programme for adults with severe and enduring mental health conditions. In recent years we have adapted the programme to suit young people (15-18) – reducing the length of the course to 18 weeks and increasing the pace as our feedback showed us young people
At Meningitis Now, we know that many children and young people, who have had an experience of meningitis, will have a range of physical, emotional and psychological issues that are affecting their lives. Since the coronavirus pandemic began, we have seen evidence of how these issues may have become even greater, as lockdown and the requirements of social distancing limit people’s normal access to education, medical and social care services, and family support.
Support from The Pixel Fund will play a key role in the running of YoungMinds Parents Helpline, which exists to support thousands of families in the UK every year with free, confidential online and telephone advice. It is a two-tier service, free to callers, through which our team of advisers provide reassurance and practical advice to parents and carers who are worried about the mental health and emotional wellbeing or behaviour of a child or young person.
We promote the well-being of people of all ages across Sussex affected by spina bifida and hydrocephalus, enabling them to lead the lives they want to. We are thrilled to have been granted £2,500 by the Pixel Foundation, to offer a drama and music workshop in the autumn of 2020 to twenty-five young people with these complex disabilities.
Livewire youth project runs a mental health and wellbeing project, whereby we support young people to reach their full potential and overcome many issues with their mental health and wellbeing. We seek to help the young people we work with to become resilient confident individuals and have found that our mental health project exceeded our expectations in terms of outcomes and has become integral to the delivery at Livewire. During these unprecedented times it has been necessary to adapt our provision and work in creative ways to continue to offer young people the support they need.
