Who is Shine for?
Shine works with vulnerable teenagers up to adults aged 25 who may be care leavers, care experienced or homeless.
Shine works best for young people that are being passed between different services or who are going to age out of children’s social care and would benefit from a longer-term relational model of support.
When a young person agrees to it their Shine Supporter will begin to work with them intensively to build a developmental relationship. This balances the young person’s strengths with a curiosity about underlying issues, what needs to change and how it can happen.
Shine groups support young people to meet one another and make social connections and friendships for after their involvement with Shine has ended.
Safeguarding
Shine Supporters work with parents, carers, and siblings to strengthen the households that young people are in or have been a part of.
We also know that the relationships we establish with our young people can support colleagues from different services such as social care, education, employment, housing, addiction, probation, and mental health to more effectively reach and work with our young people.
Working in this way means that we must ensure that the principles of good safeguarding practice are at heart of what Shine does.