Support Strategies

This service aims to provide bespoke support to young people, parents, carers, wider family, schools and organisations to develop personalised strategies to help manage challenging situations and activities using:

schedules
grading
comic strip conversations
social stories
emotional regulation strategies, and
sensory approaches.

The first part of this process is to meet with parents, carers, staff and young people – independently, depending on the circumstances – to explore aspects of situations or activities. The aim is to gather views and opinions on what works well, and where there is a need to develop alternative ways to achieve the best outcome possible.

The second part of the process is to work together to create a strategy or strategies to help overcome challenges.

The steps involved in this type of activity include:

a face to face or video meeting with parents, carers, and/or staff to gather specific background information
face to face meetings with young people to get their views
working with the young person to select a strategy or strategies that they can use
developing the strategy
reviewing and modifying the strategy or strategies with everyone involved in using them

Each session will normally last for an hour. Some steps in this process may take more than one session depending on the needs of the young person.