Kate worked relentlessly to help others and although Kate retired from Break The Silence in 2015, she remains a specialist advisor to the Board of Trustees and meets with new Staff who join our Team. Our staff are privileged to carry on her legacy, continuing the valuable, vital work that she started in 2004. This is a responsibility which we all take very seriously and we constantly strive to improve in all that we do. As a Team we work in synergy to develop, innovate and improve the services and opportunities which we provide, supporting and assisting each other to ensure we achieve the desired results for the Clients and the organisation. As an organisation, we truly value our Staff and have created a culture to allow mutually beneficial achievement of organisational and personal goals, developing capabilities of our Staff, promoting fairness and equality. We communicate, reward and recognise so as to motivate our Staff to build commitment and enable them to use their skills and knowledge for the benefit of the organisation and our Clients. Break the Silence is a registered charity (SCO36263) and company limited by guarantee (SC341157). Although Kate retired from Break the Silence in 2015, she remains a specialist advisor to our Board of Trustees and still follows the progress of the organisation she founded in order to help others. The charity is governed by a Board of Trustees, responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the charity. The Board comprises of a mixture of both clinical and business expertise and Survivors are represented at Board level. In addition, we have a number of sub-groups and specialist advisors that can be called upon as and when their area of expertise is required. Everyone’s therapeutic journey is unique, therefore the support that we provide has been created to be flexible so that support can be tailored to meet every person’s individual needs and priorities. All support is designed to assist Survivors to work through their trauma, move forward and improve their social well-being and psychological health. Our support will enable and support Survivors to achieve an attainable standard of living, health and family life. We aim to reduce level of distress experienced, help Clients process the trauma and make sense of what happened, be able to move forward, recover and flourish in their lives, reducing their isolation and to be able to integrate with the local community. We have a range of options to choose from and support is not time-limited.
