Sunbeam GardensSunbeam Gardens is a mixed, four-bedded unit, primarily for young people aged 13 - 18+. The unit has been providing care and therapy to a wide variety of young people for many years, and has an enviable record of achieving positive outcomes, particularly for young people with complex care histories and a range of psychological, emotional and mental health issues.

Some young people have experienced difficulties such as deliberate self-injury, absconding, offending and multiple placement breakdown; some may have experienced sexual abuse and exploitation. Some young people have had histories of mental health problems. Sunbeam Gardens are experienced in working closely with psychiatric professionals, helping the young person cope with and manage difficult symptomology and, where necessary, administering psychotropic medication.

Sunbeam GardensMost young people who come to Sunbeam Gardens require a medium to long period of intervention. The Unit Manager, Lesley Carpenter, and the team have a great deal of experience in directly addressing young people's difficulties. The day-to-day routine of Sunbeam Gardens provides a structure and clear safe boundaries in which young people can develop and grow positively. Further, it is central to the ethos of Sunbeam gardens that young people are actively involved in decision-making, and made to feel empowered and central to the running of the home.

Lesley and the team work closely with Consultant Therapist, Peter Kelly, along with Sunbeam Gardens' individual therapists to provide a well-constructed programme of intervention for each individual young person. These Therapeutic and Behaviour Management Programmes are developed to provide structure and to maximise positive decision-making in the lives of each individual young person. This may include specific work around offending. In addition to individual therapy or counselling, each young person also participates in a weekly Social Skills group.

Sunbeam GardensSunbeam Gardens has been particularly successful in the past in helping many educationally disadvantaged and disenchanted young people successfully return to full-time education. Many young people admitted to Sunbeam Gardens have missed out on the benefits of stability in their school lives. Providing stability and support at home is the first stage of re-engaging young people in school. Many young people at Sunbeam Gardens have benefited from attending the Marlowe Education Unit. Some have also gone to mainstream school and college. Most have achieved genuine and measurable success, including success in examinations such as GCSEs.

Sunbeam Gardens is located between the historic city of Gloucester and the market town of Newent. Gloucester is an ethnically diverse city that offers numerous positive, as well as negative opportunities for young people. Part of Sunbeam Gardens role is to provide the necessary structure and support to young people to benefit from the positive and avoid or manage the negative.

Sunbeam GardensSunbeam Gardens is a substantial single storey property set in a large and well-provided garden. There are ample recreational facilities for the young people, along with a warm and homely environment in which to live. Located in the grounds of Sunbeam Gardens is the Marlowe Child & Family Services Training Suite.

Sunbeam Gardens team are committed to a strong central ethos; to providing each young person with individualised and genuinely therapeutic care to meet their often complex needs and to ensuring positive outcomes, especially in the areas of ‘Staying Safe’, ‘Being Healthy’, ‘Enjoying and Achieving’, ‘Making a Positive Contribution’, and ‘Achieving Economic Well-Being’.