Family Intervention

Stepping out provide a bespoke family intervention service, where our staff work closely with the young person and their families in their own home. The aim is to try and prevent a major communication breakdown, with the ultimate goal of maintaining the family unit and preventing the young person from entering the care system. This service is also known as crisis management.

Providing a similar service to our respite care program, our experienced and qualified staff can visit familes struggling to cope with members of the family displaying challenging behaviour. We can help bridge the communicative gap and eventually re-build family relationships.

For more information on how Stepping Out can help regarding crisis management or general family intervention, contact us.

Stepping Out are able to offer various types of support depending on the service user's needs. We take the time to assess exactly what is required to support the family in order to produce positive outcomes. Our stanard family intervention package includes:

• Face to face and telephone support for the young person and their families whilst in their own home.
• Help to understand why a relationship with a parent/carer may have broken down.
• Support during family visits and contact with estranged family.
• Provide a positive role model, coach and mentor helping to set and achieve goals with positive outcomes
• Support to identify, access and engage with relevant support services such as Connexions, YOT, medical services etc.
• Support to identify, access and engage with educational programmes and work related training.

Aditionally, we often face cases where a young person needs extra support in order to develop their life skills. Stepping Out can offer the following types of support and assistance within their family intervention program when neccessary:

• Practical help to identify and improve independent living skills such as budgeting, cooking, cleaning, washing.
• Support in building self-esteem and confidence.
• Support in building and improving social skills and help to pursue a non-offending lifestyle.
• Sexual health awareness and support with STD screening.
• Drugs and alcohol awareness and support to access appropriate services.
• Support in attending court and youth justice appointments.
• Regular daily/weekly/monthly record of key working sessions sent to social worker.

For further information about our family intervention & crisis management services, feel free to contact us.