PACT would like to thank All Saints Wokingham for your continued support. We are hugely grateful for your daily prayers, awareness raising and fundraising for PACT charity.
As you may know, PACT was founded by the Oxford Diocese in 1911 and has been supporting and strengthening families ever since. PACT provides award winning community support to vulnerable families across the Thames Valley, supporting families on issues including domestic abuse, debt, mental health and parenting. PACT also provides an ‘outstanding’ (Ofsted 2014) adoption service including specialist therapeutic support for adopting families.
PACT would like to take this opportunity to update you on what we have achieved recently.
PACT’s Bounce Back 4 Kids (BB4K) programme for children and parents who have been victims or witnesses of domestic abuse has achieved excellent outcomes and plans to extend d the service which currently operates in Oxfordshire and West Berkshire into Wokingham. PACT supported 61 children and their non-abusing parent through the BB4K programme in 2015 and hopes to support even more vulnerable families in 2016. We believe that with the correct effective support in place for the parent and for the child, we can build resilience, help to keep the family safe, educate them against entering into another abusive relationship in the future and help the healing process so that families have the best chance of improving their lives.
PACT’s award winning community project for women continues to receive new referrals from women with complex needs who have reached crisis point. Alana House supports an average of 70 women per month and helps them to turn their lives around and become contributing members of society.
In 2015, PACT placed 92 children with their ‘forever families’ and provided 1313 hours of therapeutic support to vulnerable adoptive families. The therapeutic support provided included counselling, Theraplay, clinical psychology, life story work, creative play therapy, homeopathy, dyadic developmental psychotherapy, filial therapy, occupational therapy, art psychotherapy and drama therapy which help children to overcome difficulties in childhood, adolescence and early adulthood which have resulted from childhood developmental trauma and neglect.
For more information on PACT and the services offered please visit www.pactcharity.org.
We hope that that you will continue to support PACT individually as well as through the church. If you or a friend or family member works for an organisation who may be able to support PACT please do get in touch: laura.senior@pactcharity.org
Thank you
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