Our Vision
We know that being part of a community is essential for a child and their family to truly thrive, and to become more resilient to challenges and barriers they may face. We are all people who have physical, emotional, spiritual and social needs. Our unique integrated Hub model has community at the centre.
We don’t view individuals or families as “clients”, we work alongside people through their journey to facilitate access to partnerships and local services and organisations. We strengthen support networks and community with a view to support families in a holistic, integrated way.
This includes our local council services in Lambeth and Southwark, local GPs and agencies, local Community Organisations Coin Street Community Builders, BOST amongst others, as well as local arts and uniform groups, such as Brownies and Scouts.
What We Do
Our Children & Families work weaves across our Hub. It includes focused work alongside our primary and secondary schools – Oasis Academy Johanna and Oasis Academy South Bank, our farm Oasis Farm Waterloo, and our early years centre, Oasis Playspace.
Our work also includes family days, activities, events and volunteering across the year as well as a range of annual events such as our Christmas Fayre, Waterloo Carnival and school holiday provision.
Our core areas of work include:
- Family support
We offer specific support to families facing hardship, challenge, struggling with physical or emotional health, and at risk of or experiencing acute crisis. This is tailored depending on the individual family and circumstance and involves a holistic approach of care – we will journey with a parent or family.
- Promoting positive activity, health and wellbeing
In order to build a resilient community, we invite children and families to join us in creating positive activity that promotes wellbeing, build character, financial resilience, skills and relationships. We facilitate this through a range of after-school and weekend activities, such as baby groups, parent courses, adult learning, English classes, library use, holiday provision and community events.
Children & Family Team
Our team consists of Sonya Waller (Children & Families Manager), alongside Coretta Brown (Families Worker), supported by Wafaa Elelimy and Ximena Farieta.
We take the safety and wellbeing of children seriously and ensure all workers with responsibility for children have DBS checks and receive regular appropriate training. You can view our safeguarding policy here.