Family Therapy

Family Therapy is a programme working to help families, across North Somerset, stay together.

  • Location

    North Somerset

  • Launch

    Aug 2017

  • Area

    Systemic Support for Families

Collaborators & funding partners

  • North Somerset Council

  • Life Chances Fund

Delivery Partners

  • Core Assets Children’s Services

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • North Somerset Council

  • Life Chances Fund

Delivery Partners

  • Core Assets Children’s Services

  • Mila Lukic

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer

    Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

Overview

Supporting young people to stay with their families – avoiding time spent in foster or residential care – means they are likely to experience better life outcomes.

Family Therapy is a programme in collaboration with North Somerset Council and delivered by Core Assets Children’s Services, aiming to work with young people and their families to help them stay together.

Since its launch in 2017, the programme has worked with over 165 families and enabled 57,000 days in care to be avoided. Using the Family Star, a successful tracking method, data has shown significant improvements in family functioning and helped to demonstrate each family’s progress.

Outcomes

Over 165 families have received support to improve their relations and help stay together. The Family Therapy programme has resulted in over 57,000 days of care averted.

  • 167

    Starts to the programme

  • 57669

    Days out of care

  • £1.3m

    Outcomes achieved

  • £5.4m

    Value to Government

  • Positive Families Partnership

    Supporting families with young people at risk of being taken into care across multiple London boroughs.

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  • Stronger Families

    Using family therapy to help children in Norfolk and Suffolk remain with their families and out of the care system.

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