Welcome to BE 4 Care
CEO introduction:
BE 4 Care is about improving lives. Its founders were at the forefront of developing and executing practices proven to work effectively with people with complex lived experiences or circumstances.
Its staff, governance and lived experience support lever in remarkable assets in their care offerings to people in need. Safety, quality, equality, fairness, progression and lived experience are evident in everything BE 4 Care does.
-Lee Farrier, CEO, BE 4 Care Ltd
Who we are
Vision:
Our vision is for all people to be resilient, safe, and to build positive futures utilising their full potential in an inclusive way.
Mission:
We provide services to address complex health and social needs and help people to build healthier lives that have meaning and value for themselves and their families and to be independent and part of creating cohesive communities.
Values:
- Committed to always engage people with person-centredness empathy, kindness & ensuring everyone counts, are treated equally, fairly, and are valued and respected as an equal.
- Dedicated to what matters most – to improve lives building trusted relationships in which we challenge, collaborate and change and keeping people at the heart of everything that we do.
- Innovative: bringing together skills and resources, new technologies and adapting to meet the demands of tomorrows world to continuously achieve our mission.
Objectives – BE 4 Care aims to:
- Improve services for people with multiple needs who are in repeat contact with addictions services, the NHS or the criminal justice system.
- Recognising people as individuals and strengthening our approach to personalised care resilience and progression.
- Ensuring equity and equality for all service users in line with the principle that everyone counts.
- Involve people with lived experience in all our programmes and work streams.
- Confronting inequality head-on.
- Utilise innovation and new technologies and methods that support inclusion.
Improving Lives through recovery, progression and inclusion
At BE 4 Care we are committed, skilled and experienced in improving lives through sustainable recovery, progression into learning, work or purposeful activities and being part of a community where you are happy and forward looking.
We offer unique helping methods and specialisms providing services for substance use, offending and resettlement, health and wellbeing, clinical services, employment training and education, access to housing and support services, young people and families services.
We encourage, recruit, train up and support lived experience volunteers
Being Resilient – A strategy for everyone for everything
Our three-year strategy, Being Resilient, is centred on the people who use our services, their families, and the communities they are part of. It is unique, ambitious and at the heart of BE 4 Care’s mission, carefully constructed from a foundation of 40 plus years working and learning with people with complex lived experiences and what works best.
We are proud of our success providing an infrastructure in the Ministry of Justice over the past 2 decades that has significantly helped over 100,000 people leaving prison to be helped into community employment or learning and which has contributed to raising a huge amount of funds for use in this important area of work.
We are also proud of the impact programme carried out during and in the post pandemic period where we received expressions of interest in our lived experience training of over 663,000. During this programme we were able to engage and listen to over 3000 people we support and employees working with these people to shape our strategy and delivery methods.
Over the next 36 months our passion is to achieve monumental change for people in complex circumstances impacted by drugs, alcohol, mental health and related issues to sustainably recover to and become fully inclusive in their families, localities and economically.
We will bring into our work with the people we support the use of mobile app technology at all points in their needs and through our development of influential collaborations ensuring that no one we work with will slip through the net.
Working Together strategy
Working Together is in our DNA. We could not contemplate any other approach to the way that we work with service users and to ensure that BE 4 Care staff and lived experience volunteers collaborate effectively with people who engage our services.
Working together promotes finding sustainable solutions, shares the weight of responsibilities and enhances decision-making that works.
Working Together remains at the core of who we are, how we operate as an organisation and our value and respect for the people we work with.
Impact Report 2020/21
Our latest Impact Report demonstrates positive impact on the people and communities we serve and explains our key achievements, activities and growth aspirations. Regulation by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
We are committed to becoming a CQC regulated service prior to delivering our services. Check back to see our progress to secure CQC regulatory approval.
About our History
It is the staff in BE 4 Care who represent what is remarkable about the services being offered. BE 4 Care founders were at the forefront of developing and executing practices proven to work effectively with people with complex lived experiences or circumstances.
- Staff, governance and lived experience support bring remarkable assets to BE 4 Care in the form of high academic achievements, long careers in public sector probation practice and management, social work, practice and significant longevity and achievements in the voluntary sector.
- Key personnel led and shaped delivery of major EU transnational R&D projects in 23 regions of Europe rated by the European Commission in the top best handful contributing to the first EU policy of empowerment.
- EU Impacts led to developments across both northern Ireland and the Irish Republic improving the integration of young people considered NEET. Improving teacher effectiveness. Influencing the work of HMI,s seeking best practices. Job Centres in Northern Ireland and their counterparts across the Irish border received training and software technologies to improve the impact of their services with marginalised people.
- Help requested by the Ministry of Justice enabled £31M funding for a prison initiative in 28 prisons. Innovation was provided by B4C personnel, 200 delivery staff trained impacting 16000 prisoners.
- Software and methodologies was gifted to the MoJ but IP retained and further developed for Be 4 Care.
- Personnel assisted in the final development of the Connections service.
- Personnel has professional creative industry experience and accomplishments.
- Recent test beds leading to the launch of BE 4 Care products and services demonstrated efficacy in recovery work in addictions, mental health excluded groups, unaccompanied young Asylum seekers, NEET groups, Youth Justice staff, Capacity building volunteers, workers preventing exploitation of vulnerable young people in county lines, gang associations and sexual exploitation.
- The recent impact project delivery confirmed and created a resilience recovery and progression movement, including an essential VocTec app.
- Personnel have mentored masters level students studying muscle Dysmorphia / Mental Health / Psychology