ISSUE: 4 Summer 2020

ACHIEVE CHANGE Coronavirus Update AND ENGAGEMENT ACE is continuing to support MISSION STATEMENT young people during the Coronavirus pandemic. Our ACE works with staff and volunteers are working from home, keeping children, young people contact with all their and adults to support existing young people by them to build different methods using emotional resilience, telephones. ACE is still open putting their voices at for referrals from young people, parents and other the heart of our work. agencies at this time. We have been A.C.E continues to be busy with referrals received from health supplementing our usual professionals, school pastoral teams and self-referrals. Due to the service with a seven day a Coronavirus pandemic restrictions we are currently offering week 2pm – 6pm telephone appointments to over three hundred young people across confidential phone line for any Lancaster and Fylde and Wyre districts and we have many more young person aged young people waiting for our service. between 11 and 25 in Fylde, Wyre and Lancaster

Districts who is experiencing We would like to thank the following for the kind donation of space emotional distress and would to A.C.E and hope to be able to resume face to face like to talk to or text one of appointments in these locations in the near future: Queensway our emotional health workers. Surgery, Poulton le Fylde; Queen Square Surgery, Lancaster; This telephone service does Rosebank Surgery, Lancaster; Health Centre; not require a referral to A.C.E. Meadowside Surgery, Lancaster; Morecambe Foyer; The Children There is also an email and Family Wellbeing Service at Morecambe Library; Garstang address for young people who Medical Centre; Lancaster Girls ; Lancaster Royal would prefer not to use the Grammar School; Our ladies Catholic College; Ripley St Thomas phone.

Church of ; Central Lancaster High School; The telephone number is ; ; Bay Leadership 0800 144 8461 Academy; High School; ; Millfield The e-mail is address is Science and Performing Arts College; ; Lytham St. [email protected] Anne’s Technology and Performing Arts College and St. Bede’s Catholic High School. Thank you to all of the organisations who sponsor our service, with Thank you the generous donors who together allow A.C.E to Thank you to Kitty Brown continue to support young people. Boutique and the Royal Kings Arms Hotel for hosting the A.C.E Charity Fashion Show. The event Galbraith Trust raised £500 and was enjoyed by all who attended.

Registered Company Number: 7848785 Registered Charity Number: 1147278 Just having a person to ‘‘A.C.E are very easy to talk to talk to in confidence talk t talk to which allowed made everything seem better. our daughter to open up about Having my safety plan helped her feelings and worries. me a lot. Strategies for breath- “A.C.E is very friendly. Setting her tasks each week ing’ grounding and mindful- I always feel very safe here. ness were really useful. I now gave her motivation to over- A.C,E doesn't judge me - the feel ready for college. I am come situations. She is a service helps me to find more confident in my ability, different girl which is lovely to solutions that work.” more motivated and feel able to see.’ succeed in my life.’ Young Person InYoung other Person news...

Lancaster and District Branch Coronavirus Mental Health Introduction to the A.C.E CIN of the Manchester United Response Fund Trauma Therapists: Supporters Club Fundraiser A.C.E have been fortunate enough Michael James—'I've been a Rory Tomlinson aged 14 and Elliot to receive funding from the practicing Psychotherapist for over Baker aged 16, both from Ripley Coronavirus 20 years and for most of that time School Lancaster, will be cycling Mental Health Response Fund I've been working with vulnerable 65 miles from Lancaster to Old which enables us to young people – mostly in residential Trafford. As Manchester United provide therapy sessions to more care settings where I undertook season ticket holders, they will be young people whose positions as Lead Psychotherapist doing it all off road, on emotional health has been affected working 1:1 with young mountain bikes and in one day! by the coronavirus social people and also modelling There is a provisional date of the distancing measures. This 'Therapeutic Care' for the 25th July for the ride. additional funding has enabled us practitioners supporting those to reduce the waiting time for children. One of my main fields of They will be raising money for many young people referred to expertise is the process of A.C.E (Achieve Change and A.C.E at a time when referral 'Attachment' between a child and Engagement), to support young levels are high and the service is it's primary care giver(s) and how people, helping them to build in demand. We welcome Jaq, Anna this can impact on how a child resilience and improve mental and Lucy into this role. experiences and perceives their health and emotional wellbeing. Training offered to world – this together with the This fundraiser is supported by impact of all types of trauma the Manchester United become a Befriender informs all of my work as a trauma Foundation, who are kindly Volunteer worker with A-C-E – which in this donating an initial £500 Are you or do you know anyone 'lock down' continues to give me the and a further £500 if the boys aged 18 to 25 years that has been sense of 'making a difference'. raise £500 from the cycle ride. affected by mental illness; either Aneesh de Vos— Aneesh de Vos ACE would like to thank Rory, themselves or a friend or relative. joined us in March as a Trauma Elliott and the Manchester A.C.E are looking for volunteers to Worker. Aneesh comes with a United Supporters Club for their train to befriend young wealth of experience having worked support. For details on how to people who require emotional in the field for over twenty years. donate please visit the A.C.E health support. If you feel that you She very much believes in a bottom website at www.a-c-e.org.uk would like to help other young up – top down approach, using a people please contact Fundraising volunteers are always compassionate combination of Anna Peri on 07470752114 or welcome and can get in touch cognitive therapies underpinned e-mail [email protected] for with us at with mindfulness, working with more information and an [email protected] young people to support them application form. through challenging times. She As little as a 3 to 4 hours a week considers that trauma is not the can make a difference to a young event itself but how a person persons life. perceives and processes what has happened to them. Aneesh works with people supporting them to understand not only what has happened to them but also why it has affected them. She feels that this enables people to regulate, relate and reason. That is then when acceptance and healing occurs.

Registered Company Number: 7848785 Registered Charity Number: 1147278