How We Support Our Team
What Our Team Says
“PFP's approach to its team is exemplary in that it places compassion, growth, and wellbeing of its staff at the core. Its approach is that a healthy community can only be healthy if all the individual components are in themselves healthy. Trainings aim to bring awareness to the problems faced by the young people we work with, develop our self awareness, and challenge our own blindspots. I have never felt so valued and supported in any other work environment.”
— Music Team Member
“Play for Progress have so much love and care for all the young people that they help and they share this with the tutors as well. The focus is always on what the young person needs, and what the tutor needs in order to facilitate this. There are ongoing and regular conversations and check-ins to make sure everyone feels supported; the learning environment created by this is friendly, relaxed, and encouraging. Creativity is one of life’s gifts, and it can be used to heal and to grow. Being a part of an organisation that nurtures and encourages creativity in the young people we work with is a pleasure and a privilege.”
— Education Team Member
“I am excited to be continuing the journey with Play for Progress for another year. It has been extraordinary to witness the resilience of the service, especially throughout these last few months [of Covid-19]. I am in awe of the work [our team] has done to ensure the continued delivery for the young people it serves.”
— Therapy Team Member
Why and How We Support Our Team
Ensuring excellent organisational health is vital and non-negotiable when working closely with those who are impacted by complex trauma. Whether practitioners are consciously aware of it or not, they are impacted by secondary trauma. If left untreated or unprocessed, this can filter back to our beneficiaries and negatively impact their route to healing.
As such, keeping our team healthy is crucial to ensuring the highest level duty of care for the young people for whom we work.
Our therapy department works closely with our management team to ensure that our staff receive the highest level of care for their wellbeing. We firmly believe that modelling successful self-care and positive working relationships is a vital ingredient to showing our young people just how well our community can work together to tackle even the most complex of issues.
Intra-Departmental Support
> Check-ins & check outs every class
> Monthly departmental reflection & trauma-awareness sessions. This practice ensures that as a team we process secondary trauma, increasing understanding of complex trauma and improve self-awareness.
> Therapeutic resources, guidance, and supervision available to all practitioners.
> Bi-Annual departmental sharing days
Inter-Departmental Support
> Termly whole organisation training days
> Inter-departmental round tables to ensure the highest level of care and support for young people engaging with multiple departments across the organisation as well as cooperation, solidarity, and shared responsibility and support between team members.