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The May Community Voices Webinar will welcome Lynn and Maddy from Dorset Action for Children – to shine a light on the services they provide and specifically  Dorset Nightstop – providing young homeless people aged 16-25 with shelter through a network of vetted volunteer host families.

https://service.actionforchildren.org.uk/dorset-services/dorset-nightstop/

Action for Children is a UK-based children’s charity that provides practical and emotional care and support to vulnerable children and young people.

The charity has a wide range of services for parents and families, including parenting support, childcare, fostering,  residential care and policy and research.

They also ensure children’s voices are heard and campaign for improvements in their lives.

In Dorset, Action for Children runs two services. A Parenting Support Service providing individual/group programmes and webinars for parents/caregivers struggling with their children’s challenging behaviour.

Also Dorset Nightstop that provides young homeless people aged 16-25 with shelter through a network of vetted volunteer host families.

Lynn and Maddy will be talking more about the work of Action for Children with particular reference to Dorset Nightstop.

Community voices is a collaboration between BU PIER partnership and Centre for Seldom Heard Voices to provide a platform and a voice to local community activists. 

Please do join us for this webinar….