Early Intervention Support for Schools & Partners
Family Mental Fitness North East CIC works alongside schools, alternative provision settings, Early Help teams and community organisations to deliver structured regulation-focused early intervention and wellbeing support for children, young people and families.
Our work focuses on emerging emotional, relational, engagement and family needs, supporting pupils before challenges become more complex or entrenched.
We complement existing pastoral, SEND and SEMH provision by providing flexible, relational and community-based support without long waiting lists or high referral thresholds.
Our delivery is aligned with the Section 1 and Section 2 (Family Help) safeguarding pathway, supporting early identification, intervention and emotional stability.

We provide structured early intervention through:
Our work supports pupils to:
Helping schools and services respond earlier, reduce pressure on staff and improve long-term outcomes for children and families.
Our work is informed by structured communication and regulation-based approaches that help adults better understand how children and young people engage with the world around them.
This includes the use of the Connection Kit a practical framework developed to support observation, emotional regulation, communication and engagement across school and community environments.Rather than adding isolated interventions, the framework helps build more consistent and relational approaches that support:
The Connection Kit can be embedded within targeted intervention work, small group programmes and wider provision development. .
We accept referrals from:
Referrals are reviewed collaboratively to ensure support is appropriate, proportionate and aligned with our early intervention remit.Support may be:
Support is flexible and designed to integrate within existing systems and provision.
Schools and partners can:
Delivery may include:
Support may be commissioned directly or accessed through funded programmes where available.
We work with children and young people experiencing:
Support is adapted across:
Our programmes are designed to support:
Our work aims to provide early, structured intervention that helps reduce the likelihood of escalation into more specialist or statutory services.
All delivery operates within robust safeguarding and quality assurance frameworks.
Practitioners hold Enhanced DBS checks for the Children and Adults Workforce and work in line with safeguarding, confidentiality and professional practice guidance.
Support is designed to remain flexible and accessible across a range of educational and community settings.
Schools and partners can:
Costs vary depending on delivery model, frequency, group size and level of need.Support may be:
We are happy to discuss your setting’s needs and provide a clear outline of suitable delivery options.
We welcome conversations with schools, services and organisations seeking structured, regulation-focused early intervention and wellbeing support.
To discuss referrals, partnership opportunities or commissioned delivery, please get in touch.
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