At West Wales Domestic Abuse Service, our Children and Young People’s (CYP) team is dedicated to supporting young people who experience domestic abuse. We offer a range of practical and creative services tailored to different age groups and learning styles.
Our Ar Trac programme provides group work such as Mini’s for younger children, Teens’ group work, Healing Together sessions, and Drawing and Talking therapy. For those needing more personalised support, we provide 1:1 sessions with our trained specialist domestic abuse workers. Our goal is to create a safe, supportive space where young people can express themselves, build resilience, and begin their healing journey.
Our work is centred on helping young people feel heard, safe, and empowered. We aim to build their resilience and confidence, giving them the tools they need to understand their experiences, express their emotions in healthy ways, develop positive relationships and move forward with strength and self-belief.
What support we offer:
1-1 Support
Ages: 5-18
Tailored to the individual
Weekly sessions in schools or offices
Topics covered:
- Being safe
- Friendships
- Education and learning
- Feelings and behaviors
- Relationships
- Where you live
- Physical health
- Confidence and self-esteem
Healing Together
Ages: 5-16
6 session programme
Small groups or 1-1 for historical based trauma
Topics covered:
- Regulating emotions
- Understanding emotions and feelings
Break4Change
Ages: 11-16
10 week programme
Parent and child sessions (parallel)
Child to parent abuse
Topics covered:
- Behaviors
- Attitudes
- Emotions
- Opinions
ArTrac Minis
Ages: 5-11 years
Held within or after school
Trip for CYP and families at the end
Topics covered:
- Healthy relationships
- Feelings and worries
- Safety
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Friendship
ArTrac Teens
Ages: 11-16
Held within or after school
Community project with spending budget
Topics covered:
- Healthy relationships
- Feelings and anxiety
- Safety
- Confidence and self-esteem
- Diversity
Star programme
Ages: 11-13 / 14-18
8 sessions
1-1, small groups or school based event (pse)
Topics covered:
- Healthy relationships
- Safety
- Trust
- Respect
RSE workshops
School year: 3-13
Classroom based workshops during lesson times
Guest speaker in schools, interactive based
Topics covered:
- Online bullying
- Healthy relationships
- Sexual assault and rape (ages 11+)
- Domestic abuse (ages 11+)
- Safe hands (ages 6-11)
- Healthy friendships (ages 6 -11)
- Gender stereotyping
- Misogyny
Star Recovery
Ages: 7-11 / 11-16
10 week programme
Fixed session programme
Topics covered:
- Understanding feelings
- Worries and fears
- Safety
- Anger
- Our experiences
- Feeling good
Drawing & Talking
Age: 5+
A way for children to express unconscious thoughts through a combination of drawing and talking
12 week programme
Who it can help:
- Is experiencing anxiety, stress or phobias
- Is not realising their full potential either socially or academically
- Anyone experiencing emotional difficulties
- Is feeling a lack of confidence in themselves
- Is withdrawn or continually unhappy
- Find it difficult to make friends
- Quarrel frequently with peers or siblings
- Suffer from disrupted or disturbed sleep
- Have suffered loss or bereavement
- Family change including divorce or moving
- Have suffered trauma
- Is a young carer
- Is socially disadvantaged
- Is suffering from the effects of domestic abuse
- Bully others or is bullied themselves
- Display inappropriate behaviour
