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Welcome to Slide Away

Slide Away's vision is to ensure that every bereaved child and young person in Kent has access to the support they need, when they need it. 

Since 2004, Slide Away has worked in partnership with schools and provided face to face group support in order to help bereaved children and young people adjust to a life that has changed so that they are able to manage their lives, both at home and school, and feel confident about their future.

We do this by:

Providing a safe place for bereaved children to meet with others who have been bereaved, where our professional team can help them understand and express their feelings, hold onto their memories and manage on difficult days.

We do this through a range of carefully crafted therapeutic activities that use literature, art, craft and the outdoors to provide them with a positive experience and some fun.

We also do this by: Helping to open up communication in families by involving parents and carers in our support. 

We help parents and carers understand their child's grief by offering parent and carer groups or by inviting them to attend with their children. They benefit from the new and supportive peer communities that result.

We also do this by: Working in partnership with schools, recognising the important role they play in supporting bereaved pupils before, during and after our intervention.

We take our referrals from schools, and we provide high-quality training, support and advice to our nominated school contacts.

Our partnership with schools
Approved training for schools

 

 

Our story
Four seasons