Strategic Themes

• 8 young mentees enrolled, aged 16-19.

Be positively transforming 25 young lives after trauma, through tailored mentoring and coaching and practical support to enable and sustain participation in education and skills development, work-based initiatives and community activities.

• 2 attending college, 1 found first job

• 5 more are receiving support to plan for the future, with aspirations ranging from demolition to youth work, cooking/creative to uniformed services

• Funding secured for service design and development.

• To transform 25 lives by 2025

• Building our ‘mentoring plus’ programme.

• Ongoing mentor recruitment, training, supervision and support.

• Design & delivery of life skills workshops and community engagement / participation activities to help to build motivation, engagement, confidence, resilience.

Keep trauma-experienced young people at the heart of the Trust, empowering them to shape their own futures by listening, responding and raising their voices through an active Young Advisors Board and on issues that matter locally and nationally.

• Every Chance Champions Board established

• 5 active young people plus ongoing recruitment

• 3 young mentees helped make our first Trust video

• 4 YPs contributed to a national trauma and ACEs research study.

• YP to co-facilitate life skills workshops, including our anniversary celebrations in July 2023.

• Planning activities including creative/digital media, fundraising, youth-led governance and microgrants.

• Ideas for Sept 2023 include podcasts, film screenings or a ‘sequel’ book.

Address the barriers our young people face by improving awareness and understanding of the impact of childhood trauma and adversity across the South-West.

• Trust website, social media and plans to share evidence and resources established

• A mini video introducing the Trust completed and further grant funding secured

• Youth-led research to help analyse national cohort data on school exclusion, transitions & outcomes.

• Community-facing activities including Exeter & Plymouth running events in May 2023.

• Trauma networks, policitisation, scale of the opportunity.

• Public access - how people can find us, online footprint & listings, social media.