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We are so excited that SHAPE Summer Fest 2022 is returning to Sandwell Valley on 16th July 2022 – and this year we will have a Health and Wellbeing Zone featuring lots of stalls with different providers including the ones listed below.
Please keep checking back to this page, as we upload more providers!
The DECCA (Drug Education, Counselling and Confidential Advice) Team is Sandwell’s young people’s drug, alcohol and tobacco service. The team work with any young person that lives in the Sandwell area aged 18 or under and also works any agency that work with them.
Sandwell Family Information Service offers free, impartial information to families with children aged 0 to 19 years (or up to 25 years with a special educational need or disability), young people and professionals. We are the principal service for information to parents/carers for the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council
BEAM are an emotional health and well-being service for young people aged 5-18 (or up to 25 if you’re a care leaver) who are registered with a GP in Sandwell.
Our team of experienced well-being practitioners and volunteers will listen to whatever is troubling you.
Sandwell Young Carers provides guidance and support to children and young people (aged 5-18) whose health, education and social lives have been affected as a result of caring for a dependent family member.
Our mission is that every disabled child or young person living in Sandwell should have access to a range of play and leisure opportunities that enables them to stay safe, be healthy, enjoy and achieve and make a positive contribution to others.
Murray Hall Community Trust builds community resilience through providing high quality services and support to people with a variety of needs, by working to give children the best start in life, make a positive impact on peoples’ health and wellbeing, reducing isolation and loneliness, facilitate empowerment to ensure people get the right support and help individuals to maximise their potential.
We listen.We support.We care.
Black Country Women’s Aid is an independent charity which has supported survivors of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the West Midlands for 30 years.
We are a not for profit fostering agency. We are owned by, but independent from, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. This means that we that we are responsible for all children in care in Sandwell.
Prevent is the safeguarding part of the National Counter Terrorism Strategy and aims to stop people being drawn into or supporting terrorism.
The strategy focuses on three key areas, which are to:
A highly interactive session which looks at stereotypes and misconceptions of groups of people from different backgrounds. Participant’s own identities are explored – discussion focuses on how similar we are regardless of our backgrounds and how it feels when our identities are affected due to stereotypes/misconceptions.
Young people are free to move around during the activities and will complete their very own ‘identity cap’ exercise. The session includes a story which will encourage young people to use their imaginations and go on a journey to understand identity deeper.
