Early Intervention
One coach, one child, one hour a week.
Is your church looking for ways to respond to the mental health crisis affecting children in your community? Are you longing to forge closer ties with schools in your area?
TLG Early Intervention partners with local churches to equip everyday Christians to provide one-to-one coaching for children in your local schools. In partnering with us, your church can offer meaningful, therapeutic support to children in your community who long for someone to show up for them- to see, hear, and talk to them.
Up to the end of last year, TLG partner churches have delivered over 83,000 coaching sessions, with that number continuing to grow each year, opening doors for children and their families to experience the deep-rooted care and wider community of their local church.
Every week, when a trusted coach meets with a child struggling with their emotional and mental wellbeing, they offer real hope – sustained, trauma-informed, compassionate hope that changes young lives.
Did you know?
1 in 10 children in the UK feel unable to cope with the school day
- Association for Young People's Health, Key Data on Adolescence
Did you know?
Almost two-thirds of children aged 10-11 say they worry 'all the time'.
- BBC
Did you know?
70% of children and adolescents who experience mental health problems have not had appropriate interventions at a sufficiently early age
- Children’s Society, The Good Childhood Inquiry: health research evidence.
Why partner with TLG?
The aim of the TLG Early Intervention programme is to equip volunteers from churches to go into their local schools and provide one-to-one coaching for children finding it hard to cope. Every volunteer spends an hour each week with their child - sharing fun with them, listening to them and showing them that somebody cares about them. The transformational impact of this consistent trauma-informed approach is immeasurable. TLG Early intervention is a proactive approach that helps prevent adverse outcomes in struggling children and develops resilience and emotional regulation.
Invariably, whenever a child is struggling at school, there is a family that also needs support and care. TLG Early Intervention introduces churches to families in need of the comfort of your loving church community.
How TLG helps:
TLG provides volunteers from your church with:
- Comprehensive training so that they can professionally and sensitively create a safe environment for their coached child.
- More than a year’s worth of therapeutic resources and session plans. Our aim is to make it as simple as possible!
- Regular support from Church Relationship Leads so they won’t feel they’re working alone.
- Access to our secure online system known as ‘Coaching Village’ to enable you to see the impact that your church is making.
- Plus, your church’s Early Intervention Coordinator (the lead coach) and Deputy Coordinator will receive additional training to lead and support your team.
We are looking to set up more TLG Early Intervention programmes in partnership with churches across the UK. Please let us know if you'd be interested in running a programme by enquiring below.
Find out more about partnering with TLG
For more information about the TLG Early Intervention Programme, please download our information brochure:
What Headteachers say...
Through coaching, I started to feel differently. I would feel happier and just generally being able to talk about my feelings felt really good, and then was improving my mental state - Ollie, Northern Ireland
What Coaches say...
Does your church already run a TLG Early Intervention programme?
I want to access Coaching Village
I am an EI coordinator or a church leader & I want to refer someone from my church to be a coach
