Mother Tongue
Mothertongue is a culturally sensitive, professional counselling and listening service where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers holistic support to people and professional development to staff and volunteers from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities.
The language support offered, in partnership with agencies such as The Citizen’s Advice Bureau, can, for some, be the difference between settling well and integrating productively, or getting into severe difficulties.
We have accredited professional counsellors who speak a minimum of two languages, a team of multi-lingual cross-cultural volunteers who deliver support to clients.
We deliver counselling and practical language support in over twenty languages and can offer support in other languages through trained and culturally sensitive interpreters. The BACP accredits only the counselling provision within our service and not our other activities.
About Mothertongue
Mothertongue is a charity limited by guarantee, governed by a board of trustees. Our belief is that as a truly productive and multi-cultural society we need to find ways of reaching out to each other across cultural divides.
Our Vision
Mothertongue exists to enhance communication, understanding and learning across cultures.
Our Mission
Mothertongue provides culturally sensitive professional services, where people are heard with respect in their chosen language. The charity offers therapeutic holistic support to people, professional development to staff and volunteers and dissemination of learning for the benefit and empowerment of BME communities.
Our Objectives
“The relief of hardship experienced by people from a broad range of cultural/minority ethnic backgrounds, suffering emotional and psychological distress and social exclusion (which can occur when people suffer from problems such as unemployment, poor skills, low incomes, poor housing, bad health, family breakdown, racism and lack of sensitivity to cultural issues), by the provision of a listening and counselling service which is culturally sensitive and available in English and other languages according to the client’s preference and availability of resources.”
Accreditation
Mothertongue has become the first counselling service in Reading to be accredited by the British Association. The BACP stated that the application for accreditation was of a very high standard “representing a thoughtfully managed and effective counselling service working in a vital area of counselling provision”.
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Not only that. Many of the latest casinos and gambling companies emerged in the UK have supported many social justice initiatives to favour and encourage the employment of people belonging to linguistic/racial minorities.
