The Green House

In 2024, the #BluestarProject equipped nearly 2000 practitioners with the confidence to deliver therapy and support services pre-trial. Recently our work was recognised with a CYP Now award for workforce development. In 2025 we are continuing to work to improve access to support services for survivors in the timeframe that works for them - find out more at bluestarproject.co.uk Gemma Halliwell Emma Harewood

The Green House is open again as normal. We have lots of exciting projects planned for 2025 that we look forward to sharing with you, starting with Beyond Therapy festival in March - tickets now available via our website! https://lnkd.in/eR728QsT

The Green House is closed from Monday 23rd December and will re-open on Thursday 2nd January at 9:00am. If you need to let us know something or have any questions, please email info@the-green-house.org.uk but please note that we will not receive it or be able to respond to any enquiries or contacts until we re-open. If you are a young person and worried about your safety, you can call: · Your GP · CAMHS (Bristol, North Somerset & South Glos) 0800 953 9599 · CAMHS (Bath and North East Somerset) 0800 023 2133 If you are a parent and carer and worried about your safety, please refer to the link: https://lnkd.in/etdGbNBY 

We are pleased to announce that the tickets for Beyond Therapy Festival of Activism against Child Sexual Abuse are now ON SALE! This event will be held on 18th March 2025 at Watershed, Bristol BS1 5TX. Get yours now ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gtdiWAG9 Beyond Therapy Festival of Activism is hosted by The Green House, as part of #UpfrontSurvivors alongside SARSAS (Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support), Viv Gordon Co and Coventry University. We set up the festival to challenge attitudes toward child sexual abuse and re-imagine our society’s existing response, by combining research, arts and activism. We invite you to join us on Tuesday 18th March to participate in our community of strong and emerging voices. We believe we can use our collective power to initiate change.   Each year the festival highlights a key area chosen by young people and families with lived experience in The Green House network. This year’s theme is mental health.   The festival will be held at Watershed, Bristol for up to approximately 300 people and will include:   📢 Panel discussions 🤝 Practice based workshops 📝 Contributions from young survivors of child sexual abuse and their families We are planning this day to be a positive, creative, and joyful space focussed on the needs of young people and families – the Festival of Activism is an inclusive community-based response to child sexual abuse. ­­ ­­­Key Event Information We will be operating a wristband system to ensure only festival staff, volunteers, attendees and contributors have access to the festival only spaces.   This event will address sensitive and difficult subjects and include explicit language. Please use your discretion if attending with people under the age of 18.   This event will be relaxed with gentler volumes and house lights on. We invite you to make yourself comfortable and move around if you would like. If you need to leave a room at any point, you will be able to return to the space when you feel ready. We will have listening support available throughout the day, based in our wellbeing space. Here you can also find quiet and grounding activities.   Watershed access https://lnkd.in/eGGJJVWr https://lnkd.in/gXShpucY   There is no parking at the venue, but if you are planning on driving to a nearby car park, it is worth noting the low emission zone around Bristol City centre Bristol's Clean Air Zone charges and vehicle checker

Just one week left to apply to deliver a workshop or panel as part of #BeyondTherapyFest 2025! Applications close at 10am on Monday 9th. Content for panel discussions and workshops should reflect key areas within our festival theme identified by young people and families: -Mental health & sexual exploitation -Health & justice -Peer support – by survivors, parents and carers and by those that love them -Improving mental health policy and systems -Anger & healing -Inclusive community spaces for sexual abuse survivors’ mental health See the image below for ideas for key themes raised by the young people and families that form our survivor VOICE groups. Apply now: https://lnkd.in/efThAU5D

We are pleased to announce the third and final panel film release from Beyond Therapy 2024, 'NSPCC Together for Childhood - Whole School Approaches to Preventing Peer-to-Peer Sexual Harm.' https://lnkd.in/eKCxp-KG The Together for Childhood workstream on healthy relationships for life is aiming to develop, test and embed a whole school approach to preventing peer to peer sexual harm. Whole school approaches go beyond an emphasis of what is taught within the RHSE curriculum and seek to make links across subjects, complimented by the school culture and ethos.   "Together for Childhood's whole school approach to peer-to-peer harm has been developed and some aspects evaluated between 2020-2022. We have delivered a variety of activities in secondary schools, including EMPOWER, young voices, focused education, restorative justice and bystander approaches, all of which focus on promoting healthy relationships and reducing peer to peer harms. We have utilised the public health model to child sexual abuse prevention, plotting existing activities, resources, signposting information and CPD into primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary prevention."   The panel includes development, delivery, and evaluation staff alongside lived experience to provide a holistic perspective on their whole schools approach. Panel includes Corinne Picton (Chair), Claire White (Senior Evaluation Officer), Simone Kelly (youth engagement officer), Young Person (young advocate for the Whole School Approach). This panel is introduced by Lorna O'Doherty.   Don't have time to watch the full film? Check out some of our favourite moments on our Instagram Page. Inspired? If you would like to deliver your own panel or workshop at Beyond Therapy 2025, then head to our website to find out how to apply: https://lnkd.in/eR728QsT Our call is currently open and closes at 10am on Monday 9th December 2024.   Save the date for the next festival: 18th March 2025

Day 4 of #16DaysofActivism Today we are sharing a message of: Start with schools. Build cultures of respect and dignity. The person who made this placard said “Shame and silence are still so huge as barriers. The election of a known sex offender by 51% of the USA is a huge blow to survivors. Voice & solidarity are the only way forward.” #NoExcuse

On Day 2 of #16DaysOfActivism we are sharing a message of HOPE: “To promise that we will always hold onto hope, even in our darkest moments.” #NoExcuse

Last night we gathered with other organisations, survivors and allies across Bristol to hold a candlelit vigil marking the start of #16DaysOfActivism against violence against women and girls. Over the next 16 days you will see organisations sharing orange to represent a bright future without violence against women and girls. We will be sharing some of the placards and messages made by The Green House (staff, children, young people and families). This placard is accompanied by the message “To hold a light and let it shine for every child lost in abuse - a light for loss, change and hope.” #NoExcuse

We are pleased to announce the release of our second panel film from Beyond Therapy 2024, 'Schools and Masculinities - Supporting Healthy Relationships.' This panel was a true highlight from the festival and we are so glad we can now share it with those of you who were not able to watch it live. This panel was delivered by The Green House in response to an urgent need to discuss ideas around masculinities and how they are responded to in schools.   "Andrew Tate was the most googled name on the internet in 2022. Everyone’s Invited revealed endemic sexual harassment and peer abuse in schools across the country, the vast majority of it by young men. If all this is happening during adolescence, a time of rapid change, anxious questions about acceptance and rejection, and especially formative influences, what kinds of school-based interventions make a difference?"   This panel brings together a schools-based practitioner and podcaster on masculinities, Lewis Wedlock, a researcher on abuse prevention and perpetrator transformation work in schools, Nathan Eisenstadt, and Ali Avery from The Green House Survivor VOICE Project as well as a member of The Green House VOICE project.    Don't have time to watch the full film? Check out some of our favourite moments on The Green House's Instagram Page. Inspired? If you would like to deliver your own panel or workshop at Beyond Therapy 2025, then hit the button below to find out how to apply. Our call is open between Friday 8th November and Monday 9th December 2024: https://lnkd.in/efThAU5D   Save the date for the next festival: 18th March 2025 Beyond Therapy is delivered as part of #UpfrontSurvivors in partnership with SARSAS (Somerset and Avon Rape and Sexual Abuse Support) Viv Gordon Coventry University https://lnkd.in/ejAUsQWd