Requests for Support
A link to our Request for Support form can be found at the bottom of this page. Please familiarise yourself with the following guidance before you start.
Making a request for support
We can take Requests for Support from professionals, parents/carers and from young people themselves if they are aged 16+.
We can support children, young people, parents and carers where:
- The child or young person has experienced sexual abuse or assault, but it is no longer happening
- Safeguarding action has been taken – the disclosure or discovery of sexual abuse has been logged with the Police and/or social care
- The person lives in Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire and Bath and North East Somerset. To find services in other areas, please go to Welcome – SARSAS Survivor Pathways
- We accept referrals for young people up until the day of their 18th birthday and, once the referral is accepted, we can work with them even though they have turned 18
We can support parents and carers (independent of their child) where:
- They have parental responsibility or care for a child or young person (25 years old or under) who has experienced sexual abuse or assault
- The sexual abuse or assault took place before the child/ young person was 18
For therapy referrals we also ask that:
The child/young person has relative safety and stability in their lives. For example:
- Children and young people in foster placements are feeling settled enough, with no planned moves coming up
- A family is not in pre-Care or Care proceedings
- There is already support and a safety plan in place around a child/ young person’s own harmful sexual behaviour (where this risk needs to be managed first)
- In the case of sibling harmful sexual behaviour, there must be a clear safety plan in place if the children are living together, having contact or there are plans for reunification
- There is a supportive adult in place for the child / young person
Everyone is different so we always welcome you to contact us to talk this through: info@the-green-house.org.uk
Who can’t we offer therapy to?
- Please see below for guidance on our CAMHS referral pathway
- Children and young people who have already had therapy with The Green House within the last 6 months (12 sessions) or 12 months (24 sessions). If you are unsure, with the consent of a parent/ young person, please contact us at info@the-green-house.org.uk
- Children and young people who are having therapy already and want to continue with it
Guidance for Professionals – What’s helpful to include in a request for support?
We ask that, wherever possible, you talk the referral through with the person first.
Sexual abuse means that something has happened to a child or young person without their consent, so we want to ensure we all work in a way that offers as much agency and control as possible. Hearing the child’s voice within a referral, even if this is through a supportive adult when they are very young, is a great starting point for promoting choice, agency and collaboration.
For an example of a request for support click here (all the details are entirely fictional)
CAMHS referral pathway
If you are a CAMHS practitioner, before making a therapy referral, please contact info@the-green-house.org.uk for a pre-referral consultation call. We can offer up to 30-minutes for a consultation, but it might be a brief routine call.
Why are we asking CAMHS practitioners to do this?
Since 2022, AWP CAMHS and The Green House have been strengthening our partnership working.
We have seen the value in thinking together, alongside children and families, about the suitability and timing of therapy referrals to our service, particularly when a child/ young person might still be having, or waiting for, a CAMHS service.
To complete a request for support, click on the link below