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Action for Young Carers

Since it was established in 1996, Action for Young Carers has grown from a small project intended to highlight and identify the needs of young carers, to a diverse service, which both lobbies for service improvements, and directly provides a range of provision to young carers themselves.

Action for Young Carers exists to:

• Identify, support, inform and empower children aged 5 – 18, who care for parents/carers, relatives, siblings, etc with a physical or sensory disability, mental health difficulty, substance misuse, learning disability, ill health or by effects of the ageing process.
• Offer specialist one to one and group support, as well as activities, to relieve and prevent the stresses experienced by young carers, in order to protect health, relieve poverty, distress or sickness.
• Offer training aimed at helping young carers learn new skills, including; Personal safety, First Aid, Bullying, Self-esteem and Assertiveness, Stress and Relaxation Techniques, Race and Culture, Healthy Eating, Drug and Alcohol awareness.
• Provide mentors for young carers through our Mentoring Scheme, offering guidance to young carers with lower level support needs.
• Promoting the needs and issues that affect young carers to Education, Health and Social Service professionals, and encourage them to help young carers and improve their standard of living across Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire.

For more information about the mentoring scheme please click here

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