Crisis Intervention
Crisis Intervention
Emezzions Children Services is active in running a comprehensive network of crisis placements for children who are in need of a short-term intensive placement.
We see a crisis as an opportunity for change, so our crisis placements have been developed to ensure each young person can be fully assessed as part of a suitable placement being found.
By focusing on the individual difficulties affecting the development of each child and young person, our therapeutic teams use multiple resources to prescribe the best programme possible for personal assessment and treatment.
About our Crisis Intervention service
Our singleton and crisis services draw on many years’ experience of providing the right solution to support children and young people who, at the point of referral, are unable to be matched within a group-living environment. This may be due to a significant risk of harm, either to themselves or to others.
Our services deliver a bridge to lower-intensity services, such as moving to our therapeutic communities or a solo fostering placement with intensive support services.
Emezzions Children Services
All our staff are comprehensively trained to deal with challenging behaviour and disaffection. The focus lies primarily on building success, which for some children is initially hard to accept after years of knowing only failure and rejection. We also build their self-esteem through teaching numeracy, literacy, general knowledge and life skills, identifying each child’s preferred way of learning.
Our Crisis Intervention Services
Our Crisis service is frequently used for young people who simply cannot cope with the environment around them. Our Residential service offers a 2:1 care ratio of highly experienced professionals, providing children and young people where possible with a much-needed respite break.
The programme is designed for them to extend themselves in ways they never thought possible. We also perform in-depth assessments of each child and young person, using fun activities incorporated into their individual care programme. This has been particularly successful with children and young people who are usually seen as a ‘problem’, or are at risk of a placement breaking down.
Children and young people who are stepping down from secure care, or at risk of going into secure accommodation, have found our residential service highly beneficial as a short-term solution. It brings a sense of stability and is geared towards moving forward and making progress.
Recognising the need for rapid admission decisions for children and young people at risk, Emezzions Children Services offers an emergency referral service (vacancy permitting). Our placement team respond to calls within one hour and we consider all kinds of cases regardless of the young person’s current behaviour or needs.
Placement programme
Our placement programmes include:
- The safe and stabilising environment of a residential unit
- The skills of a highly trained carer in family placement schemes
- Educational services (such as supported school placements or one-to-one tuition)
- A specialist short-term unit for children finding it difficult to adapt to a normal environment.
We aim to develop more schemes throughout the UK to aid as many children and young people as we can.
Working with local authorities
We work with local authorities to develop clear, realistic expectations of progress, based on the assessment of need, for children and young people who may have been in a cycle of disruption for many years.
This integrated assessment, comprising educational, social and clinical components, is completed within the first three months of placement).
These services have access to both our Assessment & Therapy and Education services, to enable Emezzions Children Services to provide a bespoke package of support for each child.