The use of befriending by adult volunteers can help to exercise a positive influence on the young person.
We want them to be able to reach out and help the unattached by guiding them, befriending them and understanding their whole lives.
Volunteer or befriending schemes can help families to deal with difficulties, and a professional social worker or agency does not necessarily need to become involved.
They are involved in advising, assisting and befriending defendants.
Mentoring and befriending have a role to play in that contribution to building strong, successful families.
The greatest imponderable of all, however, remains whether the financial structures of agriculture can be reformed in a way that befriends nature conservation.
I am not aware of any sort of support that would go that far, but there are simple low-cost types of support like befriending schemes.
A young man whom he had befriended stole some of his goods.
