West Dunbartonshire
Strategic Skills & Support Pipeline
WDHSCP CEDAR Project
Carol Young (CEDAR co-ordinator)
&
Dominique Haggerty (CEDAR training and development officer)
Tel: 0141 562 8800
Children, young people and their mother's who have experienced domestic abuse. There is also a service for kinship, foster and adoptive parent's who are caring for a CYP with lived experience of domestic abuse
Self referral and agency referrals are welcome
CEDAR is delivered across the local authority of West Dunbartonshire
CEDAR groups run parallel to education's term time, August - December/January & February - June.
Groups are 1&1/2 to 2 hours weekly for 12-15 weeks
Domestic Abuse
CYP's 4 to 16 years
Mothers
Kinship, fostering or adoptive parents
CEDAR (children experiencing domestic abuse recovery) is a unique, evidenced based, therapeutic group work programme for children and young people age 4 - 16 and their mother's who have experienced domestic abuse. The model is based on core principles that recognise that domestic abuse is damaging to children as well as to the mother/child relationship, and on the belief that mothers are best placed to support their children in their recovery.
CEDAR also recognises that domestic abuse is an Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) and some CYP's are no longer in the care of their biological parents. To support those children West Dunbartonshire CEDAR have developed a psycho educational group to support kinship, foster and adoptive parents to support the child in their care through their group work process.
The main aim of CEDAR is to strengthen the relationship between children and their primary carer's by providing a safe confidential space that allows child or young person to share their experience, be heard and validated amongst their peers.
CEDAR is proven to improve outcomes for children and their mother's by helping them to understand that domestic abuse is not their fault, increase their knowledge of safety and wellbeing and strengthen the mother-child relationship. CEDAR also aims to improve relations between CYP and their kinship, foster or adoptive parents.