CYP Now - Strengthening carer relationships through trauma-informed arts

Arts charity uses the principles of trauma-informed care to create safe spaces for care-experienced children and young people where they can strengthen relationships with people in their lives and express themselves creatively.

Artists from puppeteers to printmakers have trained in trauma-informed approaches. Picture: Paul Murray

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Blue Cabin supports care-experienced children and young people to strengthen relationships with their adult carers through artist-led programmes.

Working in partnership with local authorities across North East England, the charity uses the principles of trauma-informed care to deliver a diverse range of creative activities to children who have experience of the care system, and their carers.

One-off workshops, accredited art programmes and weekly music-making sessions are facilitated by Blue Cabin’s team of associate artists who have experience working with care-experienced children and young people, carers and social workers. The artists, which range from puppeteers to printmakers, have received training in trauma-informed approaches to help shape the content and design of the programmes that they facilitate.

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