Believe in people
What we do
Vision is a specialist community-based organisation, delivering a multi-tiered range of therapeutic support services and accommodation for young people and young adults with complex emotional needs.
Our models of support, which are trauma and attachment informed, aim to support and nurture the stability and psychological safety of the young people accessing our service. We promote independence by providing enhanced safeguarding and risk management, placing the young persons voice at the centre of all support planning and decision making. The system provides a resilient community, offering containment whilst promoting long term emotional, physical and social wellbeing.
Vision provides nurturing, relationally and sensorially rich environments, placing a central emphasis on stability and long term security. We understand that young people need us to not give up through their most difficult experiences, helping them to make sense of their internal emotional systems.
Who we work with
Vision has over 15 years of experience specialising in working with care experienced young people and young adults with complex emotional needs aged between 16-25 years old, this includes providing accommodation and support to unaccompanied children who are seeking asylum in the UK. Vision has many years of experience working with young people who are discharged from a hospital setting, a secure children’s home or released from custody. We are often an identified setting for a young person when multiple placements have broken down.
The young people we have worked with have informed our models of service delivery. We have developed specialist skills and expertise when working with complex trauma, psychological distress, neurodiversity, attachment difficulties and developmental issues, as well as young people who are described as struggling with personality and identity difficulties.
‘Edge of care’ prevention work is another type of support we can offer to young people and their families/carers who are experiencing difficulties and are at risk of care proceedings.
We have active, strong, supportive relationships with key stakeholders within children and adult social care, CAMHS, police, education and many other agencies to ensure that partnership working encompasses a safe, dynamic way of working; securing the best possible outcomes and chance of success for young people. We work closely in consultation with UASC (Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Child) specialist organisations, including the Refugee Council, immigration legal teams, PAFRAS and Solace. We frequently work with young people transitioning from child to adult services.
We work with young people whose presenting issues include:
- Support with independent living skills
- Pre-tenancy/loss of tenancy work
- At risk of going missing
- Not in education, employment or training
- Social isolation
- Sexual exploitation
- Criminal exploitation, county lines and cuckooing
- Sex working
- Human trafficking
- Young parents and support with pre-birth assessments
- Substance and alcohol use/misuse
- Anti-social behaviour
- Sexually harmful behaviour
- Developmental and learning needs
- Personality difficulties
- Neurodiversity
- Other complex emotional needs
How we work
“Trauma is not what happens to us; trauma is what happens inside us as a result of what happened to us.” Gabor Mate
What do young people say about us?
“I was a troubled kid growing up. Things were really bad by the time I got to Vision. I was looking at custody. The staff and managers stuck by me when no one else had. They helped me through things and believed in me. They helped me stay out of jail and I am now getting therapy. I don’t know where I would have ended up without them.”
My experience with Vision has been the only positive experience I have had throughout my life. Vision is not just a service, it’s like one big family; they are there 24 hrs for help, support, and guidance as well as keeping you safe. Unlike other companies that choose to only be there from 9am to 5pm, with Vision they are there at all times. The staff at Vision are the only people that have been there for me and have never given up no matter how hard and challenging I could be at times.