Tai Hafan has 3 Children’s Services Co-ordinators (CSC’s) – one in each region. Their role is to work with children and young people within the Association to ensure that their needs are met, and to encourage them to get involved and participate in the organisation’s activities and future planning. The CSC’s work on a one-to-one basis with young people, in groups, with parents and children together, and with tenants and service users on parenting skills.

Increasingly Tai Hafan is supporting tenants and service users whose children are perceived to be at risk and are often on the ‘at risk’ register held by Social Services. The CSC’s will work together with the young person to put together a support plan which could also include work with the mother on parenting or the involvement of other statutory or voluntary agencies.

In March 2002, Tai Hafan held a very successful Children and Young People’s Conference in Harlech, attended by 60 young people. They took part in a wide range of activities from dance and drama to DJing and making models of their ideal Tai Hafan. The Children’s Commissioner, Peter Clark, worked alongside them for one morning of their stay and expressed his hopes that the Association would be able to encourage its young people to link into the work of the commission.
The Children’s’ Services Co-ordinators and a young person who is a former tenant of the Rhyl Young Women’s Project are working with groups of young people, to put together a Young People’s Forum which can have formal links with the Commissioner in the future.