Who we are…

Veritas is a social enterprise offering children and families Early Preventative Intervention Programmes that enable long term transformative and empowering solutions that effect lasting behavioural changes. The programmes are designed to work with families who are at risk from social exclusion due to mental health, stress, anti-social behaviour, their financial circumstance, long term dependency on anti-depressants or other substances or having children taken into care. They are designed to be delivered in the community for example, parenting skills, effective communication, budgeting and general life skills or as residential programmes.

One of our most influential early intervention programmes is the Residential Supported Break.

Our Residential Supported Breaks offer constructive and purposeful activities for the whole family that promote empowerment in individuals, create mutual respect, and encourage social awareness, responsibility and self-respect enabling each individual to make choices willingly that lead to permanent positive behavioural changes. This is achieved through a uniquely designed working model within a community experience framework.

Our philosophy is to facilitate positive lasting transformation by empowering individuals within the family to take responsibility for their choices. In this way social awareness increases which in turn reduces social exclusion and anti-social behaviour.  Once the foundations are put in place during the break a real sense of community develops and continues to grow when the families return home, reducing their feelings of isolation.

Over the past years we have worked successfully with children and families who displayed a range of complex issues.  With a real chance to address difficult and diverse problems within a supportive environment, transformative and empowering solutions emerge which greatly benefit the families. The outcomes achieved result in families making positive choices and decisions about their future lives.