Articles tagged as Care experienced young people

Blue Cabin’s work to tackle the impact of adverse childhood experiences on care-experienced children and young people have received support from a foundation which has its origins in 15th century London.

A group of care-experienced children in Redcar and Cleveland have worked with a professional artist to learn about the arts and achieve their Arts Award Discover accreditation.

We’re pleased to share that Blue Cabin has been awarded £8,000 of core funding from the Community Foundation Tyne and Wear.

Mary-anne Hodd is a trainer, speaker and consultant with Trauma Informed Consultancy Services who combines lived experience of the care system and psychological perspectives to support a strengths-based understanding of care experience. Mary-anne

Children who have been, or are in care, are vastly over-represented in the justice system: care leavers are estimated to represent between 24% (1) and 27% (2) of the adult prison population, despite being just 2% of the adult population.

How do you help a group of young people, whose ages range from eight to 21, work together to create a stop motion animation? Filmmaker Laura Degnan shares exactly how this happened in Redcar and Cleveland.

A group of young people from Redcar and Cleveland have worked with Blue Cabin to make a short film sharing their experiences of being in care.

Blue Cabin Associate Artist, Ruth Mary Johnson, explains how working with a group of young people, aged eight to 21, resulted in a truly collaborative film-making experience.

Blue Cabin and Nepacs have been awarded funding to deliver a creative arts programme with care-experienced young men serving sentences at Deerbolt Prison in County Durham.

Findings from a study into the impact of lockdown on Children in Care Councils in the North East are now available.

A co-creation project with care-experienced young men in Deerbolt Prison, supporting the young men to be recognised as artists.