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Project Return will be hosting national big breakfast morning on the 25st of May. The day will aim to mark the importance of relationships by encouraging organisations, houses, and teams to host their own community breakfast with creative resources available from us. Our motto for the day will be delivered by us and changed by you. Read more
Project Return is hosting a series of creative workshops to discover the care community’s needs in a through care and aftercare trauma resource. Read more
In this blog, Staf Project Return Development Worker Jenny Ferguson discusses the return of 'Our Choir' - Scotland's Choir for the Care Community. Read more
'Operation Play Outdoor' is the second workshop in a series of 'Seeds for Change' forestry club activities, organised by Project Return's care-experienced steering group, 'The Catalysts'. The workshop will give us tups on how to take care of your own garden or indoor forests, delivered by Craig from Scottish Forestry. Read more
Project Return is focused on changing how the care system understands and supports trauma, this is being done through our steering group which is made of both care experienced voices as well as workers with experience. For Staf this project is a real opportunity to amplify the voices of people with care experiences alongside their workers and for this group's insight to be celebrated and harnessed to create meaningful and transformational change in how we understand trauma in the care environment.
Project Worker Tommy Dey shares the latest updates from Project Return and what work they are doing to boost mental health. Read more
Project Return presents their rendition of Sunshine on Leith. Read more
The Catalysts, the steering group behind Project Return, have published the findings of their Pets in Care survey. Read more
Find out more about Project Return's care-experienced steering group, 'The Catalysts' in this blog. Read more
This woodland wellbeing sesssion is the first in a series of Seeds for Change forestry club activities, organised by Project Return's youth-led steering group, 'The Catalysts'. Our first workshop will be delivered by Lou Irvine, founder of the Wellbeing Rebels - a Glasgow-based social enterprise that works with Scottish Forestry to promote wellbeing in the woodlands. Read more
A survey created by The Catalysts, to research the care community's experience of pets in their homes. Read more
The Catalysts have created Seeds for Change an indoor plant starter kit that will bring nature and nurture inside to care leavers and workers' homes. Read more
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In this blog Project Return Development Worker, Jenny Ferguson, reflects on the last 6 months of Project Return and provides an update on the next steps. Read more
Find out more about Project Return's Choir, and how you can get involved here. Read more
The Project Leads at Staf give us a quick round up of all the things they've been up to in 2019, and what to expect in 2020! Read more
Project Return is looking for people with care and/or justice experience, alongside members of the workforce to join this projects steering group. We are now meeting fortnightly - email [email protected] to find out more and get involved! Read more
On 24 September with a little bit of rocket science and a lot of energy we launched Project Return’s steering group at our offices in Glasgow. Project Return has been created to explore how safe nurturing environments and healthy relationships can resolve trauma. Read more
Project Return was created to ensure that the wellbeing and success of young people leaving care is indistinguishable from that of their peers. The project is now underway and we're looking for young people and members of the workforce to join our steering group. Find out more about what's happening with Project Return and how to get involved. Read more
In a country that believes that all young people deserve care and love, it cannot be right that their wellbeing and success is often determined by the adversity and trauma they have experienced. Find out more about Project Return, which seeks to address this, here. Read more