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Targeted Youth Support
One of
Shropshire Council’s Early Help Services

TYS practitioners are based in various multi agency
settings across the county.
Early Help Referrals should be sent with a Webstar Score and any other assessment to
COMPASS
Mt. McKinley
Anchorage Avenue
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
SY2 6FG

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TARGETED
YOUTH
SUPPORT
For young people (11-19) and their families:
Helping Children have a safe, happy and healthy family life

Targeted Youth Support
TYS is a specialist Early Help intervention and prevention service for vulnerable young people and their families
We are a team of professionally qualified and experienced practitioners from a variety of backgrounds, skilled in engaging young people and providing a range of support in order to help them gain the resilience and skills they need to progress into adult life.
Targeted work may include;
Prevention of child sexual exploitation and other risky behaviours
Domestic abuse in teenage relationships
Emotional resilience including suicide prevention and self-harm
Homelessness prevention
Transition through challenging life events
Working with young people with autism and mild to moderate learning needs
Mediation and advocacy for young people i.e. between their parents or carers, education provider etc
Developing independence skills such as budgeting, self-care
Substance misuse identification, working closely with the young people’s substance misuse team
TYS also delivers a number of targeted group work programmes, including Empower, focusing on sexual exploitation and abusive relationships, Below the Belt, a masculinity programme, and The Kick About Club, a personal development group.
We can design targeted group work based on a wide range of needs, please contact us to discuss opportunities.

Requests for Service
Referrals to Early Help
Please send completed Early Help Referral Form with
a Webstar Score and any other assessment, for example the Early Help Assessment (EHAF), identifying needs and outcomes that cannot be met by referring agencies or universal services to
COMPASS
Mt. McKinley
Anchorage Avenue
Shrewsbury Business Park
Shrewsbury
SY2 6FG
These forms and processes can be found on the link below.
Shropshire Council website:
www.shropshire.gov.uk/early-help
TYS interventions foster a strong working relationship between young people and worker; the consent of the young person is the first building block to this relationship and so all referrers need to gain the young person’s consent and involve them fully in the referral and assessment process.
Practitioners adopt a wide range of approaches to develop tailored programmes based on individual need, which value young people’s differences and enable young people to make informed choices.
TYS Practitioners will work with the young person and their family (whenever possible and appropriate) in order to develop a family focused plan to resolve the difficulties they face and ensure that progress is maintained by building stronger, more resilient young people and families.
Appointments
Appointments can take place in school, colleges, at youth centres, at home or elsewhere in the community - where ever is most appropriate.
Support to Schools
TYS also offers support to colleagues in secondary education, providing advice and guidance on Early Help procedures and the range of other services and resources available to support their own targeted work.
Confidentiality
We will not discuss personal information with other people e.g. friends, peers or parents; although if we feel that the young person or someone else is at risk of harm, we will need to share this information with other professionals in order to protect the young person.
We would always hope to get the young person’s permission before sharing information with someone else.
Enquiries
If you would like to discuss TYS provision please contact the Senior Practitioner Jo Cox: jo.m.cox@shropshire.gov.uk Tel: 07990 085365