 A charity that strives to enhance family life is this week unveiling a new image and a wider vision for the future.
Parents and Children Together, which was founded in 1911, is re-launching with a new “building blocks” logo and plans to expand its work building and strengthening families.
The charity acts as an adoption and fostering agency, responds to the needs of children, young people and their parents through one-to-one support and group drop-in sessions and educates learners in the care sector.
PACT Chief Executive Jan Fishwick said the new logo symbolised what the charity aimed to do every day. She said: “It is about what we do and who we serve. The building blocks are a pictorial representation of how we build and strengthen families. In the past we have concentrated on improving the life chances of young children but we now want to branch out and extend our support to young people. PACT has been working with young people of all ages in varying degrees for many years but now we want to consolidate what we know and apply it to our future vision.”
PACT is hosting a conference for professionals in the social care
sector or anyone who comes into contact with the traumatic experiences
of damaged children. Trauma, Empathy and Common Sense will be held at
St Anne’s College, Oxford, on Thursday 15th October and features US
Trauma Stress Psychotherapist Babette Rothschild as keynote speaker.
PACT helps homeless teenage parents, victims of domestic violence,
families facing child protection issues and ethnic minority families
requiring support to integrate into local communities. PACT also runs
children’s centres, provides post-adoption support services and
one-to-one work with families.
PACT Learning, the training arm of the organisation, also provides a range of courses and workshops.
Click here for more information about Trauma, Empathy and Common Sense conference.
The website is in the process of being updated.
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