2. What do we do:
Youth engagement:
We have a dedicated team of staff and volunteers who will engage with
individuals and groups at a street based detached level and seek to
initiate and build relationships with these young people and identify
their needs and help them develop programmes that are individual to
their needs
4. Many of the young people Rathbone engage have significant
barriers in their lifes and Rathbone seeks to help young
people over come this both with support from specialist
professional staff and external agencies
Areas covered include:
•Educational underachievement
•Mental health
•Offending behaviour
•Drug and Alcohol addiction
•Homelessness
•Unemployment
•Financial crisis
•Grief
•Family breakdown
•Social isolation
•LGBT issues
5. Pro’s Cons
•Get right to the heart •Moral dilemmas(Involving
of were young people social
are services/police/parents/co
mmunity
•Young people can
build relationships in a •Risk of
surrounding they feel Violence/Uncontrolled
comfortable environment
•View of their lives •Staff turnover
which you don’t
always see in a club •Some young people don’t
setting want support and can tell
you to clear off in not so
•Don’t have to search nice a manner
for issues and needs
for youth provision as •Fifth of the young people
we meet them face to met signed up for
face programmes/support
