Beth Veccione Bio:

After qualifying as a social worker in 2017, Beth wanted to address the lack of creative and community focused support available for young people. This led her to found Care to Dance - a social enterprise that uses dance and trauma-informed approaches to support care-experienced young people, to help them feel a sense of belonging and to process what they’ve been through in a safe space, without fear of judgement.

We find creative ways to help them process their experiences, the painful and positive, provide the stability consistency they likely missed growing up and help them develop relationships built on trust so they have people to turn to. By doing this, we hope to achieve our mission to improve the wellbeing of care-experienced young people through dance, and to build inclusive communities where they feel safe, supported and can express themselves freely.

This year, Beth was in a car accident that left her with a broken back. She is lucky to have had an amazing support network, and strong mental resilience that she has cultivated over a long period of time. But it really brought home for her what it must be like to face challenges and dark times alone. Which is often the case for a lot of care-experienced young people.

So to mark Care to Dance’s 5 year anniversary and to raise money for the young people that they support, she will have run first ultramarathon! So many young people are struggling at the moment and services are still so stretched. By undertaking this challenge, Beth wanted to show all young people just how much is possible if you put your mind to it, what you can overcome with mental strength and determination, and people backing you.

Beth is also undertaking a PhD to explore the effects and benefits combining the Arts and trauma-informed approaches can have for care-experienced young people.

Website: www.caretodance.co.uk

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-vecchione-478527138/