Empowerment, safety and support for women and children experiencing domestic abuse.

Children and Young People’s Service

The Children and Young People’s service (CHYPS) offers support to children and young people aged 5-17 who have been affected by domestic abuse.

This may include:

• Witnessing domestic abuse at home
• In an abusive relationship with a girlfriend or boyfriend
• Caught up in violence / arguments at home
• Being physically, emotionally, psychologically or sexually abused by the abuser
• Victim of honour based violence
• Subjected to forced marriage
• Fleeing for their safety / living in refuge

CHYPS provides practical and emotional support, raises awareness and offers a safe space to allow children and young people to make sense of what has happened to them and help them to recover from domestic abuse.

Services include:

• 1:1 Support
• A safe place to talk about experiences
• S.T.A.R Group work
• Parenting workshops

Children and young people must be referred by an agency such as schools, social services, police, health services, youth services etc. A referral form and parental consent is required.