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Practical safety and wellbeing resources for children

BraveBox gives children practical tools for coping, reassurance, and safety. It also helps trusted professionals have age-appropriate conversations about emotional and physical safety.

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What is BraveBox?

BraveBox is part of EdShift’s Tier 1 support, offering practical resources for children who need reassurance, coping tools, and trusted adult conversations. Each box helps adults talk with children about safety, feelings, support, and who they can go to for help.

BraveBox is not a replacement for specialist support, but it can help children feel more prepared, connected, and able to ask for help.

What Children Have Told Us

Children’s own words have shaped BraveBox. Some have told us:

“The holidays make me feel unsafe.”

“I worry about mummy and daddy fighting because of money.”

“I’m scared we won’t have food.”

These worries show why children need trusted adults, practical tools, and support that recognises them as victims and survivors in their own right.

What is inside a bravebox?

These worries show why children need trusted adults, practical tools, and support that recognises them as victims and survivors in their own right.

A BraveBox may include:

Each item is chosen to help children talk about worries, practise coping strategies, and know where they can turn for support.

How BraveBox Helps

BraveBox gives children tools they can hold, use, and return to in difficult moments.
It can help children:

For professionals, BraveBox provides a child-centred structure for sensitive conversations and safety planning.

bravebox safety planning training

BraveBox works best when used by adults who feel confident having safe, age-appropriate conversations with children. Our training helps professionals use BraveBox as part of child-centred safety planning, supporting both emotional and physical safety.

Teams learn how to use the resources, guide sensitive conversations, and respond to children with care, clarity, and confidence.

How to access or support bravebox

There are several ways to help a child receive BraveBox support.

Sponsor a BraveBox

Help provide a child with tools for calm, coping, and safety. Your support helps us send a clear message to young survivors: you are not alone.

Request a BraveBox

If you are a school, police officer, community organisation, or frontline professional supporting a child, contact us to ask about BraveBox access.

Book Training for Your Team

Equip your team with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to use BraveBox safely and effectively.

Related Programmes

EdShift provides a three-tier pathway across a continuum of need. From light-touch connection and safety resources to early intervention and specialist therapeutic support, our programmes are designed to help children access the right support at the right time.