Supporting and working with children experiencing behavioural and emotional difficulties

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Charity name:

Chance UK

Grant amount:

£600,000

Period of funding:

3 Years (2022-2024)

The Mohn Westlake Foundation is pleased to be supporting the work of Chance UK, an early intervention organisation which works with children in London aged 5-13 who are experiencing behavioural and emotional difficulties and are excluded or at risk of exclusion from school.

Chance UK provides targeted, solution focused mentoring delivered by trained volunteers and youth workers to support children through a critical time in their lives. By intervening at this early stage, Chance UK equips children with the skills they need to understand, articulate and address underlying issues and to build resilience and confidence, helping them towards a more constructive, healthier approach to life’s challenges.

Through its mentoring programme Chance UK uses solution-focused, universal workshops to help reach more children and provide social and emotional skills to overcome challenges and problem solve.

To strengthen the work with the children it helps, Chance UK also works with parents, providing practical and emotional support and developing strategies in the home that will support the child’s progress during the mentoring period and beyond. The organisation’s work includes one-to-one support, group workshops and specialist information clinics and family activity days.

To learn more about this project, please visit the grantees website: www.chanceuk.com

"It's been good for me to come out of myself more. I think I can be more of a help for my son now I've had some support myself. I think he sees the world differently now. He looks out at things more, and I think I do as well. We're more open with each other and I want to keep that going.”