Investing in early identification, education & prevention

I SAY NO is an early intervention trauma-informed, neuro diverse sensitive programme designed to empower primary school children who are vulnerable to extra familial harm. I SAY NO addresses harm outside the family environment and developed to respond earlier to the high levels of serious youth violence that has gripped our communities and continues to place vulnerable children and their families at significant risk of harm. I SAY NO offers a safe space for children to explore experiences, understand their rights and develop strategies to protect themselves from risky situations and harm. The programme acknowledges the emotional and psychological impact of trauma, focusing on building trust, safety and empowerment. It provides practical knowledge on identifying the early signs of grooming, understanding manipulation tactics and language, and resisting unsafe approaches. The overall aim is to help young children recognise harmful situations, build resilience, make safe, positive decisions, identify safe adults and reporting pathways whilst building confidence to safely SAY NO.

Respect, Resist, Resolve, & Respire to Rise

A dynamic workshop for secondary school aged pupils designed to help them identify grooming tactics and exploitation. The programme is focused on extra-familial harm, conflict resolution and reducing youth violence. Participants learn how to promote self-protection, de-escalate conflicts, challenge aggression, and promote positive peer relationships.

Nurturing Responsiveness, Strengthening Bonds

A trauma informed programme aimed at parents/carers of babies and toddlers under two years old. CUDDLES is a unique programme designed to help parents nurture their children’s growth and development and will address the unique needs of both neurodiverse parents and children. The program will assist parents to foster healthy attachments, address trauma, and promote both emotional and digital safety. It is a transformative, quality relational programme for motivating parents to be confident in their parenting of infants and toddlers. The programme will afford participants protected time in a relaxed and safe environment to focus on parenthood, its attributes and challenges. It will offer parents insights into developing knowledge, confidence and skills that will help them build strong, healthy, life-long bonds with their children, whilst keeping them safe and happy.

Strength in Self-Love, Power in Protection

This interactive program designed to support young women to differentiate between femininity and sexuality with specific focus on child sexual exploitation. It educates young women on the dangers of grooming and sexual exploitation, teaching them how to recognise signs of manipulation including digital grooming, and providing them with strategies to stay safe.

Seeing & Tackling Exploitations Prevalence & Stronghold

A trauma-informed programme designed to empower parents by educating them about extra-familial harm. The programme focuses on equipping parents with the knowledge and tools they need to identify and respond to risk factors. It concentrates on guiding how they build resilience in their children by enhancing self-awareness, emotional regulation, and critical thinking to better navigate their environments and avoid risky situations.

Strengthening Support, Anchoring Safety

ANCHOR is a specialised trauma informed, neuro diverse sensitive workshop designed for foster carers. It focuses on the critical intersections of childhood trauma, extra-familial harm, and effective corporate parenting responses. The programme will equip foster carers with the knowledge, practical tools, and strategies to support understanding of vulnerabilities and trauma responses. It will support participants to consider their roles in ensuring provision of nurturing environments that promotes early identification, awareness, healing, resilience and safety. Foster carers will be armed with key learning to appreciate the negative impact on behaviours, and their duty for timely and effective supervision which underscores the urgent need for this targeted training to better safeguard Children Looked After

Our Mentoring and Coaching Programme at Freedom to Fly (FTF) is designed to provide tailored support and guidance that empower and arm individuals with the skills and support they need to thrive in their personal lives and soar in reaching their professional objectives. We understand that navigating environments that individuals will need to manoeuvre are challenging, complex and often fraught with doubt, fear and apprehension, and we mitigate these with support of experienced professionals, skilled in building confidence, fostering resilience, and enhancing personal growth through trauma-informed, holistic approaches. Our focus on personal development aim to ensure recipients gain valuable self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and communication skills to help navigate those limiting challenges.

We offer expert consultation on safeguarding, EDI, and trauma-informed practices to faith groups, voluntary and statutory organizations. Our goal is to offer expert guidance to enhance professional skills, improve practices, optimise organisational responses that deliver better outcomes for children, ultimately improving their life chances.

Freedom to Fly offers assessment of risks to children from extra-familial harm via our Child Exploitation Risk Evaluation Tool. This tool offers commissioners a robust trauma-informed, neurodiverse-sensitive, multi-dimensional approach to assessing robustness of safeguarding vulnerable parents and children from risks and harm from grooming and exploitation. It assesses risk holistically, considering the complex interplay of trauma, neurodiversity, history, and external influences that negatively impact children’s access to consistently secure and safe parenting. This tool analyses risk factors to provide commissioners with evidence of parent’s and/or children’s vulnerability, understanding of risk, safety factors, and approach to safeguarding approaches in households to those deemed vulnerable.

Freedom to Fly’s 1:1 intervention meets the needs of commissioners and Courts by offering structured one-on-one support that addresses the complexities of extra-familial harm and risk management. This programme aims to empower service users to recognise risky individuals and situations, equipping them with the knowledge and skills needed to offer more timely, sustainable, and effective protection. Through this tailored intervention, service users learn to recognise and make safe and informed decisions, enhancing their ability to navigate challenging circumstances, and make informed safer decisions.
Central to this package is FTF’s commitment to measuring and evidencing engagement, motivation, and participants’ capacity to implement lasting change. Our experienced facilitators focus on the recognition of threats and the development of protective strategies via a trauma-informed approach that fosters trust and understanding, ensuring each session is both supportive, person specific, and impactful. This service aligns with best practices and statutory requirements, making it an essential resource for those committed to enhancing child protection and welfare.

At Freedom to Fly, we offer specialist, trauma-informed training and development programmes designed to empower professionals, carers and community members to better support children, young people, and families facing complex social care challenges. with decades of experience, our team delivers practical, evidence-based training covering critical issues such as safeguarding, extra-familial harm, equality, diversity and inclusion all via a neuro-diverse lens.
The training aim to equip participants with practical skills and insights that aim to foster deeper understanding of risk indicators, intervention techniques, and proactive approaches to building safe, resilient, effective, whole family support and learning. Training is delivered by experienced professionals, and designed to be inclusive, dynamic, transformative and responsive. Training is flexible and range from workshops and seminars to in-depth multi-session programmes ensuring flexibility and accessibility for organisations. Programmes will enable individuals and organisations to reflect and ensure practices are aligned to organisational visions, goals, directives and duties.