About

C.O.R.E is a registered charity working with young people in Brighton & Hove.

Aims: To develop CONFIDENCE, OPTIMISM, RESILIENCE and self ESTEEM, in children and young people, particularly those that are highly sensitive.

Objectives:

  • To provide support to young people in a positive, creative, safe, groupwork and one to one experience.
  • For children and young people that we work with to identify their strengths and differences and view them positively.
  • For young people we work with to feel they have value, and have something of value to contribute.
  • For young people to realise that a big part of resilience is asking for help.
  • To identify triggers of stress, and support young people to develop strategies to help them cope with stress, and life’s challenges.
  • To identify goals for their personal development and feel positive about the progress they can make in their personal development.

C.O.R.E founder Rachael Gale

C.O.R.E was founded in 2013, by Rachael Gale, since its beginning CORE has supported over 500 young people in schools and in the community. C.O.R.E works in three of the largest secondary schools in Brighton and Hove, delivering group work and one to one support.

C.O.R.E was set up to address the issues that young people face around Confidence, Optimism, Resilience and Esteem. C.O.R.E believes that if a young person gains strength in these areas they will flourish in many other ways, in relationships, in accessing education and will have good mental health and well being. CORE has a specialism in working with young people who are highly sensitive.

High sensitivity: 20% of people are highly sensitive. C.O.R.E has expertise in working with young people who are highly sensitive.

Highly sensitive people have a more reactive nervous system, and take in a lot more through their senses than less sensitive people. Highly sensitive people tend to be kind and compassionate and compliant, noticing other people’s needs, and the details of the environments they are in, they often see and feel what is not working and how things can be improved.  Some environments and life circumstances can be more challenging for highly sensitive people, particularly in childhood and adolescence. The school environment can be particularly challenging, with its noisy bright corridors and class rooms, academic stress, peer pressures and developing relationships.

Charity Number 1157143