THE AGENCY Contact: Michelle Ellingham, Yuva Senior Practitioner, DVIP Address: 80 Holloway Rd, London N7 8JG Website: https://dvip.org/for-young-people/ Email: DVIP.yuva@richmondfellowship.org.uk Phone: 02076 339 181

DVIP is a division of Richmond Fellowship, who have been working with individuals, families and communities to make mental health recovery a reality for 60 years. DVIP works collaboratively with multi-agency approaches and partnerships throughout London, and is affiliated with both Respect and NACCC. It has been offering the YUVA service since 2010.

CRITERIA Catchment: YUVA offers services for families in London. Currently (2021) the boroughs of Islington, Southwark, Westminster, and Kensington & Chelsea have commissioned services for their residents, however we are happy to discuss referral from other boroughs. Age range: 11 – 18. Young people can be accepted up to the age of 25 where there are additional support needs. The service is offered dependent on there being no adult perpetrator, or ongoing IPV in the home. Some mental health issues (parent or young person) may prevent them accessing the programme in a meaningful way.

REFERRAL: We accept referrals directly from parents and organizations working with young people. We require consent from both the parent and the young person if a referral is to be made on behalf of a family. Please contact us for more information about waiting lists, which vary between boroughs.

ASSESSMENT: In separate meetings, information is gathered about the young person and parent’s behaviours and attitudes, to gauge risk and motivation to change. Assessments are used to determine fit for the programme. Once completed, referrals will either move forward to begin receiving YUVA services or be connected with a more appropriate programme.

THE SERVICE: YUVA provides services to both parents and young people. Sessions take place in community venues, schools, and online. Work is not offered in homes. The service uses a range of approaches, drawing from established programmes such as Step-Up, Break4Change, Respect, Who’s in Charge? and NVR. Following the initial assessment, the young person receives 1-2-1 intervention from our YUVA worker over 10 weeks. This intervention focuses on behaviour change using CBT and solution focused work, and is a starting point for building positive coping skills and challenging abusive behaviour patterns used by the young person. The Who’s in Charge? group for parents is an 8 week programme centred around establishing healthy boundaries within the home, building respect between parent and child, and developing parenting strategies.

Yuva also provides trainings to support professional responses to child to parent violence. Please contact us for more information about training delivery for your organisation.

EVALUATION Ongoing internal evaluations of the project are used to inform service development and feed-back to funders. These are not openly available.

OTHER INFORMATION YUVA staff have contributed a chapter to the edited book by Amanda Holt, Working with Adolescent Violence and Abuse Towards Parents, published in September 2015. Any questions about the service are welcome. A phone call will enable up to date information to be given.

Data entered by Helen Bonnick Updated August 2021