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Anna Freud
Mental health charity for children and young people
- 201-500 employees
- B2C
- Mental health
- Charity
- Islington, London, UK
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Company mission
To transform the experience of children, young people and their families with mental health by improving the quality, accessibility and effectiveness of treatment.
Our take
Founded in 1952 by the youngest daughter of Sigmund Freud, the Anna Freud Centre is a leading children’s mental health charity operating out of the UK. It aims to be the leading psychoanalytic innovator and provider of mental health treatment to children and families across the country.
The Anna Freud Centre has close ties to both UCL in London and Yale in the US, from where much of its research emanates, with a practical wing of short-term and long-term specialist treatment for children with mental illnesses. The charity also runs teaching courses for a range of therapeutic and neuroscience practices.
In recent years, the charity has benefitted from £24 million investment into ADHD and autistic spectrum research, part of a project funded by the UK Research and Innovation funding body, in collaboration with UCL and Kings College. The 2021 funding is being used to generate evidence and approaches to improve neurodiverse adolescents' well-being, indicating that Anna Freud is still a nexus point for our understanding of mental health.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company values
- Compassion. We strive to empathise with the experiences and feelings of others, reflecting constantly and with humility to honour the trust we are given.
- Inclusivity. Children, young people, and their families are at the heart of everything we do. We listen and learn from them, and from those who support them in education, social care and health, and across statutory, voluntary and community services.
- Collaboration. We maximise our impact by working in partnership with others, learning from them and sharing our knowledge, expertise and experience.
- Creativity. We are imaginative in how we build new understanding, strengthen relationships and develop our skills as the foundation of excellent practice.
- Equity. We strive for fairness and adjust our approach to help towards addressing the inequalities that exist in society today, recognising that not everyone starts in the same place. Read more about our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion.
- Courage. We experiment and pioneer, accepting that we will sometimes get things wrong, and that is part of how we learn.
- Integrity. We act with honesty and integrity, guided by evidence, while keeping in mind what science cannot tell us.
Leadership
Peter Fonagy
(Chief Executive)Also a Professor at University College London.