We are a London based thought-leader charity, supporting young people, single parents, families and communities to overcome trauma and turn Crisis into Courage, Together.

What We Do

Our EBSA (Emotionally Based School Avoidance) work is a key part of our mission to address trauma and build mental health resilience. By developing effective interventions that support young people and their families, we ensure that trauma's impact is addressed at multiple levels—individual, family, school, and community. This holistic approach helps prevent the transformation of trauma into discriminatory attitudes or hate-motivated behaviour, directly fulfilling our charitable objectives

Crisis Intervention

Crisis Intervention

De-escalating family conflict at the moment of crisis with intensive therapy & support for the young person as well as systemic family support for parents or carers. Once Crisis is averted, we put together a plan for wraparound care to protect their potential and future achievement.

Counselling

Counselling

We offer a highly creative, integrative model of counselling, using a wide range of symbolic action techniques which stimulate the imagination of clients. This creative language of therapy is particularly effective for young people, who can then express and process their feelings more easily.

Mentoring

Mentoring

High Intensity Mentoring for young people with unmet needs that leave them at risk of youth violence. This is our special area of expertise: 1-1 coaching young people who are both victims/observers of domestic violence; and who are at risk of repeating this pattern.

Intervention Training

Intervention Training

Training for social workers, youth workers, teachers, police, counsellors and volunteers working with families where parents are in a long-term conflict.

Extended Programmes

Extended Programmes

AFC Extended Programmes facilitate spaces where all voices can be heard in support of cultural change, cohesion and resilience in communities. We will partner with you to co-create a programme that best suits your needs.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

AFC has been implementing an innovative community engagement project in Bexley, focusing on democratizing access to well-established concepts and frameworks, empowering individuals, families, and communities to transform, and enhancing capacity to respond to unstable and fast-changing conditions.

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