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There was no way I would have been able to cope in society if I hadn't come here.
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It's no secret that for many, lock down has Bean a bit difficult.
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But care farms like this one in England are offering support.
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Andan opportunity to swap therapy sessions on zoom for fresh air and farm life, with vital public services for vulnerable people shut down or reduced to video calls.
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Future roots is providing a lifeline for people struggling with mental health.
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For teenagers.
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Liam Halt and Emily trysts, working with animals and outdoor time has Bean transformative.
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I was not having a good time at school and home, Andi.
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Now I'm back here the best bits out it is seeing how everybody's and during it and having fun with all the animals.
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I had a lot of stress issues, high stress levels, quick fire snaps because locked down came around and everything.
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I had no control over it.
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The person that was helping may I couldn't see her face to face.
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Children and young people can be referred here by their schools for animal assisted therapy and training in agriculture and cookery schools.
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Julie Plumlee, a Dorset farmer's daughter on professional social worker, founded Future roots in 2000 and six, she says.
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For some young people, social distancing has bean devastating.
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We had so many social workers contact us to say, Can you take this young person, that young person that suddenly had nothing at all?
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Onda When they came here, you could see that there was just so thankful.
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Abbey Edmund used to come here as a child.
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Now she's training as a nurse and still comes here to help out coming here, learn to process a lot of true woman That might not just being through Julian son, it was actually just being able to wander off.
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Go chat to a cow.
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The cow can't tell my secrets on future Roots isn't the only one at another care.
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Farm Pathways founder Jeff Stevens is on a mission to beat loneliness.
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Loneliness and isolation is gripping people.
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You bring them out here and they start mixing with 5, 10, 12 people.
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They've got relationships going.
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They've got conversations going.
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They're using their gray matter.
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31 year old Sally Pain comes here with her mother, Susan, to feed llamas and clean out animal pens.
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I have autism.
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A diagnosis for autism on anxiety and depression.
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Yeah, E like e.
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Like coming here because it gives me, like structure and fresh air and exercise.
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Well, that's good for the mental health.
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It's given me a sort of backup team.
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You can feel very alone when you're dealing with a child with difficulties, so they're being supportive to me as well.