Sheffield City Council is seeking providers for emotional wellbeing and mental health services aimed at supporting care-experienced young people aged 17-26.
The project will co-ordinate and facilitate the provision of trauma informed mentoring and behavioural techniques aiming to improve care leavers emotional wellbeing.
This will allow the council to help bridge the gap identified for a community based, care leaver-specific, holistic emotional wellbeing provision, offering choice and diversity to young people.
The service(s) will offer bespoke, time limited, outcome focussed support on topics led by care experienced young people.
Mentoring and individual support that focusses on the development of behavioural techniques that reduce the impact of trauma on day-to-day life will increase the likelihood for success for a young person to maintain a place in education, employment or training by:
- Enabling care leavers to develop techniques to better regulate emotions
- Have techniques to use in environments to alleviate the thoughts causing stress and anxiety
- Support care leavers to reduce the impact of trauma such as hyperarousal and avoidance symptoms with methods in their day to day lives
- Young people who have experience of PTSD (such as asylum seeking young people)
Specific targets for the service(s) include providers that are able to support:
- Young people that were or continue to be Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers
- Young people with barriers to employment and education
Full specifications can be found on the council's procurement YorTender website.
Provider Engagement Event
A launch event will be held on Wednesday 4 September, 10am - 12pm at Sharrow Community Forum for interested providers to seek further information about this opportunity.
Register on Eventbrite here. Due to capacity of the venue, tickets are limited to one representative per organisation.
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