Helping Children and Families Overcome Trauma
A Journey to Hope - For Every Child
Lebanon refugee camp boy showing heart
Lebanon refugee camp family playing
Lebanon refugee camp boy showing heart
Our Vision
Every child and family healed from trauma and full of hope for their future.
Our Mission
To bring healing through creative arts therapies, practical aid and education leading to hope and wellness for children and families affected by trauma
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We believe every child has the right to play, experience a happy childhood, and have the chance to develop into a thriving healthy adult.
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We want to see children throughout the Uk and abroad having early therapeutic intervention so they can reach their full potential and lead a healthy life.
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We use creative therapeutic approaches including dramatherapy, art, music and play therapy. To help children and their families who have suffered with trauma, loss and difficulties with their mental health and well-being.
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At FLOC, our work is built around three interconnected strands: Programmes, Projects, and Services. Our core therapeutic programmes, such as The Listening Stone, Desert Rose, and Big ART, are evidence-based, creative interventions that combine dramatherapy, art therapy, and storytelling to improve children’s emotional wellbeing, resilience, and self-expression. We bring these programmes to life through targeted projects in schools, community settings, refugee camps, and conflict-affected areas, tailoring each one to the needs and culture of the children we serve. Alongside these, our services provide one-to-one therapy, small group sessions, training for professionals, and resources for parents and carers, ensuring children receive the right help, in the right way, at the right time. Together, these strands enable us to bring healing, hope, and lasting change to children in Scotland and across the world.
While FLOC is based in Scotland our programmes are used in projects across the globe often in war torn counties with refugees. Each project is adapted to the specific needs to the children and families in these areas, delivered by our teams on the ground but also through local partnering organisations in these regions.
All our therapists are qualified art psychotherapists including dramatherapists, art and music therapists or play therapists. They are all HCPC registered and are PVG /Dbs checked and are members of their appropriate professional bodies.​
In a crisis we may also provide emergency relief , like food or shelter before providing a therapeutic input. For The Love of a Child is committed to working with the child and their family to help support the healing process so we will also provide teaching and training or therapy to parents/carers of children to further support the child’s journey to hope. We may also offer parent and child work. As well as train and equip organisations or charity partners on the delivery and set up of our projects and programmes.
Fundamental to us, is that if a child is struggling with their mental health or having emotional difficulties at home or school, is on the streets, moving across borders, in a refugee camp or an institution; whether they're at risk of child marriage, dangerous work, recovering from the trauma of living in a war zone or being exploited and abused – we're there, finding new ways to reach children who need us most, no matter where they're growing up. To help them heal and find hope.
