WAVE Trust

General information

WAVE Trust - Worldwide Alternatives to Violence.

WAVE Trust was set up to tackle the roots causes of violent behaviour and child abuse. WAVE Trust believes that if you could stop people suffering as a result of violence, whether that be from gangs, domestic abuse, child abuse, violent crime or something else...why wouldn't you?

As a result WAVE Trust has intensively researched the root causes of this behaviour for over 15 years and found that violence stems from difficult beginnings and that those babies who suffer from the very start are more likely to do less well at school, commit crime, be unemployed and do the same to their own children. Thus violence becomes a cycle.

Research also found that interventions at a later stage in life are less impactful than those that start much earlier when a child is between 0-2 years old.

Thus WAVE is committed to providing quality help and care for those 'at risk' children and support for parents who are struggling with their new responsibilities. WAVE Trust has bought Family Nurse Partnership to the UK as well as the very popular Roots of Empathy programme. WAVE is now concentrating on advising government about the importance of the early years and recommending the implementation of programmes such as the two mentioned above to combat neglect and abuse of children and improve to futures of not just the children and parents involved but also the whole of society.

To find out more please visit our website at www.wavetrust.org