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From upcoming events to new insight from the TWMAD team.
Thank You for a Successful 23/24 Academic Year
As the 23/24 academic school year draws to a close, the team at TWMAD would like to extend our heartfelt thanks for your partnership and support. This year, TWMAD has had the privilege of playing [...]
NEW SERVICE – Emergency Respite for Children Service (Short Stay)
TWMAD is launching an Emergency Respite for Children Service. In times of crisis or emergency, families and services need reliable support that they can count on. TWMAD is now seeking to offer our partners a short-term, [...]
Advice for Parents – I’m Worried About My Son (Long Read)
Being a parent is one of the toughest jobs in the world. A few years ago, I was reminiscing about the good old days with a 14-year-old boy I was supporting and his mum. She [...]
Boys to Men: Helping Young Boys Navigate Masculinity
This term, Together we Make A Difference has been delivering our Boys to Men presentations as part of the Exploring Masculinities initiative. We were thrilled to be awarded this contract earlier this year by the [...]
TWMAD in Lichfield
TWMAD awarded two contracts to deliver our services to five high schools across Lichfield. Emotional-Based School Refusal TWMAD will provide each high school with the opportunity to refer students who are considered school refusers [...]
Primary School Emotion Coaching across Staffordshire
TWMAD has been continuing our work with primary schools emotion coaching support across two districts of Staffordshire, extending our services into a further 9 primary schools. The support that we have been able to offer [...]
How does TWMAD safeguard the children we support?
How does TWMAD safeguard the children we support? This is a question which holds huge significance at TWMAD, our response has to be at the core of how we operate as a growing children’s and [...]
TWMAD are hard at work in Stoke-on-Trent Communities
TWMAD are on hand to work in neighbourhoods to engage and understand how life is for young people in the communities which they live. Sadly not a week goes by where we are not reading [...]
School summer holidays are upon us
This year is flying by and I can’t believe that the school summer holidays are already upon us. This means that our student support enters a quieter period and provides our to team with some [...]
Plans for this Summer’s Youthtopia have begun
It’s been a busy time the last few weeks putting together the plans for this Summer's Youthtopia which TWMAD delivers as part of #HAF2023 programme. Youthtopia is our hugely popular holiday club which features sports [...]
Creating opportunities this summer with holiday club Youthtopia.
Here is a little summary of how TWMAD prepared and contributed towards the Holiday & Food programme (HAF) this summer with our holiday club Youthtopia. Youthtopia is all about creating opportunities for children to feel [...]
Bridge the gap between students and schools
Now all students have returned from their holidays our 121 mentoring sessions have resumed, our mentors bridge the gap between those students who have become disengaged or require additional support and the school. Here are [...]