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About Us

About Rise and Thrive Families CIC

A London-based organisation offering early, trauma-informed support for families.

Who We Are

Rise and Thrive Families CIC offers early, trauma-informed support for families facing mental health challenges, trauma recovery, and the aftermath of domestic abuse.

We work in partnership with parents, delivering culturally responsive, evidence-based programmes that help rebuild safety, confidence, and emotional connection inside the home. Despite a growing focus on early intervention, the emotional wellbeing of parents is often overlooked, even though it shapes a child's development, resilience, and future. We exist to close that gap.

Our Purpose

To empower parents to heal and grow, creating emotionally safe, connected homes where children can thrive.

Our Vision

A future where no family navigates trauma or mental health challenges alone, and every child grows up surrounded by connection, care, and resilience.

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From survival, to stability, to strength.

Our Promise to Every Family
What Guides Us

Our values

Every programme we deliver is shaped by five commitments.

I
Trauma-Informed PracticeSafety, choice, and trust at the centre of every interaction.
II
Equity, Dignity, and InclusionCulturally responsive support designed with families, not done to them.
III
Compassionate Systems ChangeShifting the systems around families, not just the families themselves.
IV
Early Intervention and PreventionReaching families before distress becomes crisis.
V
Community Collaboration and LeadershipHealing through connection, peer support, and lived experience.
Research and Policy

Why this work matters now

UK research, including analysis of the Millennium Cohort Study, shows that parental mental ill-health and domestic abuse cluster as adverse childhood experiences with intergenerational effects, and that early, relational intervention can interrupt these cycles.

National Strategy

Freedom from Violence and Abuse

The Government's 2025 cross-government strategy commits to halving violence against women and girls within a decade through prevention and early intervention. Read the strategy

Children as Victims

Domestic Abuse Act 2021

Children are recognised as victims of domestic abuse in their own right, not simply witnesses. View the legislation

Family Court Practice

Cafcass Domestic Abuse Practice Policy

Updated in 2025, strengthening the assessment of harm to children, including post-separation abuse. Read the policy

The Evidence Base

Parental mental health and child outcomes

Supporting a parent to regulate, process trauma, and reconnect with their child interrupts cycles of harm and builds long-term stability for the whole family.