Together we’ll change the world. _-Phili 4:17
Our work transforms young lives in communities right across Nigeria. We’ll continue to be here for as long as we’re needed – Working with young people to be safe, happy, healthy and hopeful.
We know that changing childhood changes a life. We’ve seen the difference it can make, that’s why we are committed to driving positive change for children and young people.
By partnering with us and commissioning a service, you can be confident in our passion and commitment to support children, young people and families through our expertise, knowledge and skills. We invite you to join us in making marks that cannot be erased in the lives of millions of people in Africa and around the world.
As you commit to joining forces with us, together we can reach more people and do more in supporting, giving hope and transforming lives than we could ever do alone.
The consistent prayers and finances you supply multiply our fruit-bearing power through the power of partnership, you can become fully supplied, lacking nothing ( Phil 4:19 ) by God.
When you give, your money goes to work to: –
– Feed the poor
– Clothe the naked
– Give shelter to the homeless and
– Bringing hope to the hopeless by sharing God’s love, just as if you were physically there yourself.
Commission us to deliver integrated health and social care services
As one of Nigeria largest children’s charity, and one of the most comprehensive providers of integrated health and social care services for children, young people and families, Royal Children Foundation provides support and services that better meet health, and wellbeing needs and improve outcomes…. now and for the future.
Why commission us?
Royal Children Foundation brings more than 12 years’ experience of supporting children, young people and families facing the most challenging circumstances. Promoting and improving children and young people’s health and wellbeing is the core heart of our service and partnerships this is key to Royal Children Foundation Corporate Strategy.
We intend to work with a wide range of commissioners and partners at neighbourhood, place-based and regional geographies to provide innovative, cost-effective integrated health and social care services that operate across the spectrum of prevention, early intervention, targeted and specialist support including:
Mental Health: early intervention, Child & Family Health: perinatal mental health, Children & Young People’s Health Equity, Family Hubs: face-to-face, hybrid & virtual offers
0-19 Healthy Child Programme
Children & young people’s social prescribing
Keyworker schemes.
Our services take a trauma-informed and inclusive approach that addresses health inequalities. We take a traumainformed and inclusive approach based on the principles of personalised care and shared decision making. We put the voices of children, young people and families at the heart of what we do to ensure all our services are accessible and appropriate
These are based on the principles of personalised care and shared decision making, with the voice of children, young people and their families at the heart, ensuring all services are accessible and appropriate.
Benefits
- Royal Children Foundation commissioned services and partners will benefit from:
- Our expertise, knowledge, and skill in delivering high quality integrated health and social care services.
- Our passion and commitment to support children, young people and families to improve health outcomes.
- Our experience of delivering large-scale contracts and supply chain management.
- Locally tailored delivery, based on a tried and tested methodology.
- Partnership working with advanced and community grassroots organisations.
- The added value of the Royal Children Foundation brand and wider support.
- Services that are co-designed with children, young people and families
Royal Children Foundation Quality Account
Royal Children Foundation publishes and regularly updates a Quality Account. This is an important requirement which measures the quality of our services by looking at service user’s safety, how effective people’s treatments are and their feedback about care provided.
2023-2024 Royal Children Foundation Quality Account
A Quality Account is a published report about the quality of services and improvements offered om review
Our work in these areas
Find out more about the work we do below:
Family Support workers in acute and emergency care settings
Social prescribing for children and young people- Social prescribing for children and young people is a non-clinical solution to help improve wellbeing, mental and physical health by connecting children and young people to their friends, peers and local communities. Our service has been co-produced with children and young people, so we know we are offering the right service in the right place at the right time. Many of the young people we support at our LINK service struggle with low mood, anxiety, emotional wellbeing, peer pressure, self-esteem, weight management and relationships. Referrals can be made by schools, Hospital, health & community organisations and parents – 96% of referrals are accepted by the service. Social prescribing is an early intervention offer and, as a system solution, it can prevent escalation to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services through meeting the child’s needs much earlier on. Royal Children Foundation support is provided by trained and experienced children’s social prescribing Link Workers who listen and offer guidance and support in a range of formats including regular assessments based on the Signs of Wellbeing Assessment Framework, one-to-one and group sessions, drop-in clinics and signposting onwards. Importantly, our Link Workers are embedded within the community, and they maximise their relationships with partners, schools, and grassroots voluntary sector organisations to ensure children and people are signposted on to the services which best suit their needs. We can offer and deliver social prescribing across primary, secondary and acute care services. Social prescribing is a way of connecting people to activities, groups, and services that help improve their health and wellbeing.
Our services offer a range of universal and targeted preventative and early intervention support, such as parenting programmes, play services, infant feeding and guidance on nutrition. We also provide specialist services including support for perinatal mental health, infant-parent relationships, domestic abuse support, housing advice and intensive family support. Royal Children Foundation is fully aligned to the vision and ambition set out in the Family Hub Specification in August 2022 and is well placed to work collaboratively with local authorities to achieve these plans. As a charity organisation with extensive local delivery experience, Royal Children Foundation is experienced in integrated working with social care, health, education, youth provision and community-based services. At Royal Children Foundation, the voice of the child guides us in everything we do so our family hub offer is co-designed with children, young people and families, putting their needs and goals firmly at the heart of all our work
Delivering integrated mental health support
One of the biggest challenges in child health today is effectively supporting their mental health and wellbeing. The pandemic and ongoing cost-of-living crisis have impacted on children and young people’s mental health which has greatly increased the pressure on children and young people’s mental health services across the country. Royal Children Foundation delivers mental health contracts across Nigeria to meet local needs for mental health and wellbeing support. Our mental health offers are effectively tailored and integrated into the wider local systems, so they complement and enhance the existing offers. Support ranges from advice and signposting to risk support alongside Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Crisis Intervention Teams. Royal Children Foundation plans in the nearest feature to works in collaboration with major hospitals all over Nigeria who are providers of children and young people’s mental health services to adopt the i-Thrive Model of care at a local level. Our services support children and young people through a range of therapies including counselling, art and play therapy, solution focused interventions and structured CBT based programmes on either a 1-1 individual basis or within a group setting.
Our therapeutic staff take a trauma-informed and child-centered approach to delivering effective mental health support, with a clear focus on the individual child or young person’s goal-based outcomes. We deliver our support to suit each person’s individual needs and preferences – whether that’s in-person, taking a blended approach or providing digital only support. This approach enables us to deliver responsive, innovative and cost-effective therapeutic support to children and young people. This reduces the pressure on mental health services waiting lists and helps more children and young people to access the support they need. Royal Children Foundation is an established provider with a wealth of experience working with providers of children and young people’s mental health services in Nigeria. The charity is ready to work in partnership with you to best deliver truly integrated mental health services in your area.
Healthy Child Programme 0 – 19 offer
We provide services in local communities that are trusted and accessible to our families and share these venues with our health partners. Royal Children Foundation has significant expertise and experience in delivering an integrated approach to the Healthy Child Programme across the country, utilising our skill mix approach. This includes partnership governance and matrix management approaches to subcontracted programmes. We offer flexibility and innovation to Healthy Child models, working with large lead providers and smaller community interest companies.
Providing mental health support in school
Children and young people’s mental health is a key priority in Royal Children Foundation Corporate Strategy 2024 – 2027 – Changing Childhoods, Changing Lives. Our Theory of Change promotes the development of a core, evidence-based Barnardo’s framework for mental health and wellbeing work in schools, that promotes a positive culture, identifies children who are struggling, provides support, and signposts to the right services. Our work in this area One of the biggest health challenges in the Nigeria today is effectively supporting the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. To meet this rapidly increasing demand, it is crucial that effective preventative and early intervention emotional wellbeing and mental health support is available for children and young people at all schools and colleges. In 2023/24 we supported 5,000 children, young people, parents and carers through our schoolbased programmes. is commissioned to deliver a wide range of mental health services in schools and colleges. We provide a whole school approach which focuses on children and young people, parents and carers and teaching staff. Our support helps to build resilience and ensure that prevention and early intervention help is available when the warning signs start to emerge.
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Social prescribing
Work with Barnardo’s in this exciting and innovative emerging area of practice for children and young people.
Mental health support teams
Find out more about the mental health support teams we help facilitate across England.
Key worker schemes
Work with Barnardo’s to support children and young people with learning disabilities and autism to get timely access to the right personalised support