Bright Paths’ services
Our services enable children and young people build lifelong coping skills and thrive.
Whether they have emerging mental health concerns, low self-esteem or presenting challenging behaviour, we build bespoke intervention plans to suit individual circumstances and abilities.
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Who is it for?
We provide emotional well-being and behaviour support for local school and college-aged children between the ages of 6 and 18 (24 SEN).
Who can make a referral?
We embrace referrals from parents, caregivers, professionals, and schools alike. For school-based services, we require the endorsement of the involved school in addition to parental consent.
Where do you operate?
While we offer virtual support nationwide, face-to-face support is currently available across Bedfordshire and surrounding areas.
School Based Support
Our primary focus is school outreach, where we provide vital support for students struggling with social, emotional and emerging mental health needs.
Our school services include:
- 1:1 – SEMH / Behaviour
- Group Workshops
- Staff Training
- Other (Drop-ins, partner school, parent workshops)
Y.E.S Mentoring
Our Youth Empowerment and Support Service is the core of our family services, and is a remote service of 6-12 weekly sessions, each lasting 40-50 minutes. We address topics such as:
- Coping Strategies
- Mindfulness Skills
- Boosting Self-Esteem
- Gratitude Exercises
- Goal Achievement
Why choose Bright Paths?
Tailored solutions
Our services are crafted to fit the unique needs of each family, ensuring effective and personalised guidance.
Experienced professionals
With a team of seasoned mentors and support workers, we bring expertise and a wealth of knowledge to every interaction.
Accessible and affordable
We understand the value of accessible support. Our low-cost mentoring program ensures that quality guidance is within reach for all families.
Proven results
Over the years, we’ve witnessed numerous success stories where families have witnessed positive transformation and growth.
Coping day to day with the impacts and effects of Autism, ADHD and Dyslexia has provento be immensely challenging for our child. Throughout her life so far, the school environment is one that she has found overwhelming, unforgiving, impenetrable and extremely difficult. Until her intervention with Bright Paths, school avoidance was high on her agenda, not because she doesn’t have the desire to achieve, quite the opposite in fact but her ability to mask uses every ounce of her energy throughout the school day just to try and fit in. Feeling exhausted, lost, misunderstood and friendless she felt unable to express or communicate her feelings in school and had become a people pleaser, desperate for acceptance in the school environment both with her peers and also teachers. From the age of 13 she was rapidly becoming a shadow of her former self, overthinking even the smallest detail, driven by anxiety and becoming increasingly irrational. Dissolving into meltdowns and often self-harming from the moment she walked through the front door, most of this frustrated behaviour was attributable to the school environment and was impacting family life as well as her own learning. Her masking and people pleasing meant that she had fallen in to the trap of a couple of coercive and controlling “friendships” which undermined her confidence even further.
BrightPaths intervention was pivotal in supporting our child to understand and begin to talk about her feelings in a trusted environment. Building her confidence, recognising her own voice and self-worth, she was expertly given the tools to help herself and the confidence begin to work out what she needed to get through each day in school and identify coping mechanisms.
The emotional support and validation for our child was key. She felt listened to and understood in a school environment for the first time. The fact that this led to a further intervention through the CANter programme, playing in to her passion for horses and continuing to develop her courage was wonderful. This was the difference, driving up her attendance in school and having a lasting impact on her ability to be mentally alert and present.
Overall, the effect of the Bright Paths intervention has been incredibly impactful not only for our child but for our whole family. The support far outweighed our expectations and has had a lasting impact in supporting her to begin to advocate for herself. Our child has a new found confidence and although masking is part of who she is, she is able to better regulate, manage and talk through issues rather than allowing them to build up, which is having a much better effect on her overall well-being. We also feel supported as parents and enabled to follow up on other initiatives and pathways to further encourage and support our child.
Natashia, you are a superstar and we simply cannot thank you and the Bright Paths team enough.
Parent of Mentee , 2024
