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4YP means "for Young People" – and that is exactly what we are. We manage, deliver and co-ordinate a huge range of support services for 12 – 25 year olds from our 6 day a week one-stop-shop drop-in centre in central Ipswich. We have a proven track record for reaching vulnerable young people through cross sector partnership activities that help them to gain life skills and grow towards maturity.

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  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Other Other
  • Beneficiaries

    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)

    Situation

    We need: £250,000 / £100,000 will keep the doors open for 4YP for another x years. The doors of 4YP have already been open since 2004 and are opened over 1000 times a year by young people accessing our services. About us: 4YP is a user led, energetic and visionary organisation of cross sector partnership offering health, social and general well-being services to marginalised young people in Ipswich and surrounding areas of Suffolk under the umbrella charity Suffolk Young People’s Health Project (SYPHP). Young people often feel that all services are geared towards adults and find them bewildering in their complexity. By offering counselling, advice, support and services from a ‘one-stop-shop’, 4YP can help even the most hard to reach young people. Our services address major issues identified by the young people themselves: substance abuse, alcohol addiction and related problems; contraception and sexual health; pre and postnatal care; depression, self-harm and other mental health issues and nutrition, diet and obesity. We provide Personal Development programmes to help young people gain work experience and learn new skills for employability. Our centre in Ipswich has shower and laundry facilities for the ‘hidden homeless’. Though our doors are open to any young person aged 12 – 25, the vast majority of our clients are marginalised and vulnerable, from disadvantaged areas including some wards among England’s 100 most deprived. Typically the young people we help experience a range of emotional and social problems and are at risk of exclusion from society, exploitation and becoming involved in drug / alcohol abuse, crime and prostitution.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Health/Wellbeing Health/​Wellbeing
  • Human Rights/Advocacy Human Rights/​Advocacy
  • Other Other
  • Beneficiaries

    • Young People (18-30) Young People (18-30)