Moray Stronger Safer Families
We believe that childhood abuse should not be allowed to cloud the rest of a child's life.
Our local services help children to heal and their families to recover from abusive experiences. From our centre in Elgin, we work with children and families across Moray who have been affected by physical, sexual or emotional abuse.
Children who have been betrayed need to learn to trust again. Our staff use counselling skills, art, play and other forms of creative communication, such as role play, puppets and storytelling to help them understand and cope with their feelings.
We help children to make sense of their experiences and encourage them to develop trusting relationships with safe boundaries in the future.
We also work with mothers who have experienced abuse and who may struggle to keep themselves and their child(ren) safe and healthy. By working with these mothers we can help them get to the point where they feel confident and able to protect their child.
All our work is tailored to meet individual need and is flexible enough to meet any changes identified during our reviewing process. Children and their families attend on a voluntary basis. Staff use therapeutic skills such as one-to-one support, art work and life story work.
Our service works with children and young people who have suffered sexual, physical or emotional abuse and their families living in the Moray area or women in Moray whose own abusive experiences affect their ability to keep themselves and their children safe and healthy. Referrals are accepted from any agency and from families themselves.
