Support for young carers of substance misuse parents

St Andrew's has funded a regional project working with young carers across Essex aged 8-19 years who are affected by parental substance misuse. 

'Harm can be hidden by a brave face in class'

Known as CHHAT, or the Community Hidden Harm Awareness Team, the project is run by The Children’s Society East, and aims to help young carers access the support they need, including their emotional wellbeing and safety.

See below for the thank-you tweet from @childsoceast!

Huge thanks to @standrewstaplfd who donated funds to our CHHAT project to create ‘Self care’ boxes for some of the young carers we support. Often these young people struggle with self care and putting their own needs first so these boxes will hopefully help them to do this pic.twitter.com/jLHXF6TRQY

— childsoceast (@childsoceast) April 10, 2019