Professionals, Carers & Parents

Community

“It takes a community to raise a child”

Being part of a community that shows care through action can build belonging and challenge stigma. Everyone benefits.

Our community work covers three broad areas:

1. Organising fun activities

From competitive cake-baking over Zoom to meals out and casual catch-ups, young people can get to know each other and Jersey Cares.

2. Connecting care-experienced young people with peers in other countries

People can motivate and encourage each other and come together and make change in how we care for children who most need our love and attention.

3. Linking individuals and organisations who want to support, with opportunities to help

We have seen that many people and organisations want to help people with experience of care. We work alongside these people, and people with experience of care to work out how best to do so and take advantage of the vast kindness of our island.

If you would like to help – even if you’re not sure how – please get in touch! We’d be happy to discuss over a cuppa.

Carly
Carly Glover
CEO

It is a privilege to hold this role with Jersey Cares. It breaks my heart that children can move from a tricky situation at home to a ‘system’ where too often bureaucracy and processes don’t leave enough room for a secure childhood. There are great examples of tenacious people who help create such a childhood and we need to learn from those examples just as we need to acknowledge and address the repetitious and predictable flaws in the current ‘system’.

I believe fervently that it is possible, here in Jersey, for ‘care’ to be excellent. It is my strongest hope that Jersey Cares is a catalyst for more people to support more children to be loved and cared for and that ‘care’, in Jersey, is shaped by deep reflection on lived experience.

I have worked in community development for 20 years; 10 of those in leadership roles. I’ve worked with people experiencing homelessness, domestic violence, struggling with literacy and being a parent and co-created projects with people affected by these issues. I hold a Post-graduate certificate and a Masters in Community Education from the University of Edinburgh.

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