Building Connections (loneliness and isolation)
Building Connections is an Early Intervention service designed to empower children and young people to build confidence, develop resilience and improve coping strategies around loneliness or social isolation.
Children and Young People work 1:1 with a trained Befriender via a secure online text
messaging platform for one hour per week over 11 sessions. Together with their Befriender, they work through a seven step programme of support.
Types of issues Building Connections can help with:
• Transitional periods – such as moving to a new school or area.
• Emotional health – including stress, lower self-esteem, social anxiety, low mood or social
isolation.
• Friendship issues and bullying – struggling to make or maintain friends or experiencing
bullying or cyberbullying.
• Sense of otherness – experiencing a sense of ‘otherness’ due to how peers have reacted to
their sexual or gender identity, race, religion or other protected characteristics.
More information can be found by visiting: NSPCC Building Connections
Contact kevin.lynch@nspcc.org.uk to discuss further and refer.
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