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Finding employment, education and training for disadvantaged young people

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Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Beneficiaries

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

    Situation

    The NEET Mentoring Project partners a young person with a mentor who will provide them with regular one-to-one support to help them enter into employment, further education or training. Each Mentor manages 5 young people at any one time with the provision of 2 hours mentoring of one-to-one work per week for each mentee. The Mentors also attend at the Advice Project and the Late Session Project to support their mentees and also to recruit other NEET, or at risk of becoming NEET, young people. Each individual mentoring relationship differs in length, with some young people needing more or less intervention. JusB operates on a 12 week term similar to schools and therefore shuts for August. The Mentor allows a maximum of eight weeks for each mentee, which allows for 2 weeks either side of the mentoring work to make the necessary preparation, identification and evaluation for the project. With the option to exit at anytime another mentee is then allocated. If the young person enters either employment or training during the eight week intervention then the mentoring relationship continues for a further two weeks to continue support to that young person during their transition. JusB has a very good track record of working with NEET young people, as evidenced at our Advice Project, and is renowned for providing a service designed to provide early intervention to those young people identified as at risk of becoming NEET. During the pilot phase of this project (at the time of writing we are 3 months into a 6 month pilot) we have worked with 14 NEET young people, 12 of whom have found employment or enrolled on a college course.

    Solution

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    Categories

  • Education/Training/Employment Education/​Training/​Employment
  • Beneficiaries

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