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- Positive Futures
Positive Futures is a national social inclusion programme using sport and leisure activities to engage with disadvantaged and socially marginalised young adults.
To have a positive influence on young people's lives by widening horizons and providing access to new opportunities within a culturally familiar environment.
We use sport and leisure activities as a catalyst to encourage project participation.
We steer young people towards education, training and employment.
The Doncaster Positive Futures Referral program is available to agencies who are involved in identifying young people aged 10 to 19 who are at risk of offending.
The program uses sport and physical activity as a tool to engage young people into a stable educational timetable, and offers much needed structure and support to the young people with the aim of improving their quality of life.
The project aims to achieve a reduction in youth offending, anti social behaviour and drug misuse, this is done through positive activities, workshops and discussions.
A key element of the program is to help the young people to enagage in positive activities, raising asperations and encouraging social enclusion. To where possible push to nationally recognised accreditation.
The young people are referred onto the program from a variety of agencies including Youth Inclusion Support Service, Police, E2E and Looked After Children and would welcome referrals from other young agencies young people focused.
Activities provided have included:
Doncaster Eagles Basketball
Top Flight Archery
Young Masters Golf
Hatfield Water Park
All Stars Tae Kwon Do Academy
Rock Climbing
Multi Skills
Ice Skating
Break Dance
Boxing
This initiative delivers Doncaster Positive Futures within the education environment. This works through schools offering innovative schemes of work to young people through the program who are disengaged within normal mainstream education. Young people (YP) are identified within schools and are offered the opportunity to participate in the programme. As part of the programme the young people achieve accreditation alongside their involvement as well as contributing to the five hour outcome.
Parkour
Street Dance
Hip Hop Production
Girls Unlimited (Girls Only Participation Innivative)
Street Kickz (Football innivative)
Rocket Ball
Unltimate frisbe
Graffiti Art
As part of a Primary Care Trust (PCT) funded strategy Doncaster Positives futures are providing diversionary activities five evenings a week as part of a estate based intervention project to help tackle substance misuse with young people. This project effectively identifies 5 problem alcohol hotspot areas through discussion with the Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) and Police across Doncaster over 12 months.
This project aims to:
Improve current alcohol education within and outside of schools.
Help to prevent vulnerable YP from developing an alcohol problem
Address the needs of children of substance misusing parents.
Help parents of children who misuse alcohol.
Provide diversionary activities for YP.
Consult with YP.
Understand the best way to provide drugs and alcohol education and support to YP.
This project also draws in support from local SNTs and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) as well as working along side agencies such as Better Deal, Connexions and Jigsaw. All of which can provide expert advice to young people on specialist subjects.
For more information about the project please download the fact sheet below or contact the project Coordinator on 01302 737143, e-mail mark.turner@doncaster.gov.uk
