ENTHUM HOUSE - UK
Millions of unaccompanied refugee children are currently on the move worldwide. Many have suffered persecution, violence and war in their home countries. Those who make it to a European country have to face the complex challenges of asylum claims, cultural integration and often Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, without the help of their parents.
Enthum House was inspired by the work that its founders carried out volunteering, campaigning and fundraising for unaccompanied minors in the Calais "Jungle". It offers a safe and supportive home for up to fourteen unaccompanied asylum-seeking young people in two residential centres in East Sussex. The young people are typically aged 16-18, and the centres are staffed by a care-team 24 hours a day.
Enthum House offers a programme of life skills, technical workshops and a mentoring programme, as well as a tailored therapeutic integration programme responding to the complex mental health needs of its residents. It has worked with local authorities and commissioning partnerships to develop this service, and works in close partnership with social workers and healthcare professionals.
Enthum House works to place young people into local schools and colleges as soon as possible, and offers intensive English language tutoring and study support.SD Britain supported the feasibility, set-up and training phase of Enthum House ahead of its opening to residents in 2018, and we have since supported the project in providing therapeutic services including individual counselling and group therapy for residents as well as personal counselling.
We are pleased to have been able to support this noble project to become well-established here in Britain.