SMART
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Lynnwood Business Centre: Lynnwood Terrace, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 6UL, Phone: 0191 2565037
Programme manager: Richard Haigh
We work with asylum seeking, refugee and migrant children, young people and families within Newcastle to ensure they are able to stay safe, enjoy a good childhood and settle successfully into life in Newcastle. We offer a trusted and accessible 'first port of call' support service to our target service users.
We offer targeted support for young people through leisure and issue-based group work. This consists of social trips to provide a safe place to socialise and fully engage with project activities and also the Kumasi weekly drop-in service, which offers social and issue based support to unaccompanied asylum seeking young people aged 16-24 years.
We also offer targeted support for individual young people. Individual casework is initiated whenever a young person requests a service as an individual.
The ultimate aim is to ensure that young people are in a position where they can best achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes. The programme also works with the family as a whole rather than with just the young people individually, with the worker assessesing that this is the best approach, or parents or carers directly requesting support.
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