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To facilitate social inclusion on two housing estates where young people are perceived as “problem-makers”. Greenwich Meantime will train volunteers & develop intervention strategies for small, local, estates identified by services as being “problem estates” with a large proportion of young people.
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Situation
While there is limited research in the UK on the analysis of the effect of poor housing on well-being and health, one's immediate social and economic environment and the way that this environment interacts with one's psychological resources and coping skills, shapes health much more strongly than the medical model would suggest" (Dunn 2000). Our work with young people develops their psychological resources and coping skills and indicates that it in turn also shapes educational attainment.
Solution
Act for Change will run an induction training for residents of the housing estates and volunteers, nurturing the social skills needed by those at-risk, to survive life on these estates and to build sustainable communities around young people, before they