Chorus
Chorus has been awarded a grant from the Homewards Fund in Lambeth. The community based organisation provides early intervention mental health support for families with children under five who are experiencing adversity.
The grant enables Chorus to pilot and evaluate a therapeutic group supporting up to 18 parents aged 16-25 with children under five who are living in supported accommodation. The group aims to improve the families’ mental health and resilience and create a stable environment of safety and security.
The group will run weekly for two years, delivered in partnership with Lambeth Emotional Wellbeing Service and Evolve Housing and Support. Sessions will be facilitated by a qualified child psychotherapist and clinical psychologist.
Chorus will also run co-production workshops for participating families to create a high-quality magazine about their lived experience of homelessness as young parents, which will serve as a resource for other families experiencing homelessness, whilst also challenging public preconceptions.
This project is strongly aligned with Homewards Lambeth’s objectives of supporting lone parents in temporary accommodation through early intervention.
“We are delighted that Homewards is supporting Chorus to join with others, including Centrepoint, to pilot this innovative and creative project which will reach young parents and their very young children living in supported accommodation at a critical stage, in a setting and format which can be accessed by families who often find support services hard to reach. The Parent and Young Child Group will address immediate mental health needs as well as building child and family health and resilience – creating better outcomes for families in supported accommodation, now and in the future.”
– Dr Sarah Peter and Dr Eva Crasnow, Directors and Co-Founders of Chorus
Homewards Fund Grants
Four Homewards Fund grants have been awarded in BCP, Lambeth and Newport.
