Family Support
Our family support workers provide practical and emotional support to the whole family.
Caring should not stop young people from getting on with their lives and living to their maximum potential. The family support workers support young carers to maintain positive physical and mental health and ensure they are able to access opportunities in education that are of the same quality as their peers who do not have caring responsibilities.
Examples of support include:
- Getting to know you and understanding how you feel about being a young carer.
- Putting you and your family in touch with other people and organisations that can help or give advice.
- Creative activities to help you explore your feelings about being a young carer.
- Helping you and your family to understand each other’s lived experiences.
- Helping you to understand more about the illness or disability of the person you care for.
- Making sure that caring doesn’t prevent you from doing things that you want to do; such as going out with friends, going to school/college or getting a job.
- Helping other people in your life understand how caring affects you.
The family support workers facilitate targeted wellbeing and school transition groups for young carers.
For more information please contact us on 0191 249 6480 or email enquiries@ntcarers.co.uk
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