Kevin Wright

Everyone at DurhamWorks cares about the safety and wellbeing of the young people we support throughout the year.

This festive period if you are seeking support these are some local organisations you can turn to.

Durham Mental Wellbeing Alliance

Tel: 0300 304 5527

The Alliance brings together organisations from across the county to offer mental health wellbeing and recovery services.

Durham Mental Wellbeing Alliance website.

Wellbeing for Life

Tel: 0800 876 6887

Wellbeing for Life aims to help you to tell us what is important to you and to support you to make positive choices that will benefit you and your life!

Wellbeing for Life website.

Durham and Darlington Talking Therapies

Tel: 0191 333 3300

A self-help counselling and talking therapies service designed to help anyone with common mental health problems.

Durham and Darlington Talking Therapies website.

ManHealth

Email: info@manhealth.org.uk

Providing free peer support groups. Manhealth offer webchat and connect service via the website.

ManHealth website.

CRUSE

Tel: 01642 210 284

Advice, information and support to anyone who has been bereaved.

CRUSE website.

Durham Locate

An online directory where you can search for all kinds of local support.

Durham Locate website.

TEWV Crisis Resolution and Intensive Home Treatment Team

Tel: 0800 0516 171

The Crisis resolution and intensive home treatment service (CRHT) provide specialist assessment for people aged 16 years and older who need urgent mental health care support.

TEWV Crisis Resolution website.

If U Care Share

Tel: 0191 387 5661

If U Care Share offer a range of services aimed at the prevention of suicides, intervention and supporting those bereaved by suicide. Text ICUS to 85258 for a free and confidential chat.

If U Care Share website.

In addition the DurhamWorks Safeguarding Hub provides information for young people on how we use safeguarding and prevent duty processes to protect young people. You can view the Safeguarding Hub here.

DurhamWorks Programmes for Schools supports young people in Year 11 to plan and move into sustained post 16 education, employment, or training; enabling them to achieve their full potential.

Thalia, is one such young person that DurhamWorks Programmes for Schools has supported, she is 16, and has been home educated since school year 10, however she had reached the stage where she was not doing any academic work at home. She had found school challenging before switching altogether off from education.

Previously she had attended the school but faced some challenging issues. 

Because of her issues with anxiety Thalia had become withdrawn from any kind of social interaction apart from online interactions. She struggled with going out on her own and mixing in everyday situations as she found face to face interactions an obstacle. She did have interests but because of her challenges no outlet for them.

Thalia’s challenges included low self-esteem, low confidence, and social anxiety. She could not see a way to get the future she wanted for herself as she had to get qualifications but did not know how to achieve this as she struggled to get out of the home environment. She found herself lacking the motivation or commitment to do anything after school.

Her parents were becoming increasingly her next steps and welcomed the support of DurhamWorks Programmes for Schools.

DurhamWorks Programmes for School made Thalia and her family aware of the wealth of employment choices that were available to her and also made her recognise of her own lack of motivation. She explored other post school options. She took on board the advice and talked to parents and relatives for suitable alternatives.

She had enough confidence to change her mind on her first choice of career and has progressed into a job with training in the care sector. She is a lot more optimistic now she has started work “I didn’t know there were other things I could do instead!”

To find out more about the work DurhamWorks Programmes for Schools does to support young people visit their page on this website.

Everyone at DurhamWorks cares about the safety and wellbeing of the young people we support.

The newly launched DurhamWorks Safeguarding Hub provides information for young people on how we use safeguarding and prevent duty processes to protect young people.

You can view the Safeguarding Hub here.

Join us at Optimum Skills on Wednesday 30th October 2024 for one of our open day sessions, at 2.00pm or 5.00pm

Come along and speak to the team about upcoming opportunities in customer service. Explore and experience our four-week courses, designed to get you work ready.

Available DurhamWorks courses are fully funded for 16 – 24-year-olds living in County Durham.

Contact us to find out more info@optimumskills.co.uk or call 01325 311 832.

You can find Optimum Skills at: 23 Parsons Court, Welbury Way, Newton Aycliffe, DL5 6ZE

Springboard’s The Leap programme is a blend of classroom delivery, practical activity and experimental learning to address, in the first instance, life skills, employability skills, social-emotional and mental health.

Why not join Springboard at one of their coffee mornings to find out more? Springboard are holding drop in sessions every Wednesday morning in their Peterlee office at 27 Lister Road, North West Industrial Estate, Peterlee, SR8 2RB.

For more information contact Nicola Stephenson at Springboard on 07834 751 284 or email ndavison@springboard-ne.org

This project is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.