Thursday, 16 October 2008
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 topic related workshops and discussions.
A key element of the program is to help the young people gain nationally recognised accreditation and direct the young people towards further opportunities in education and employment.
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.
This initiative delivers Doncaster Positive Futures delivery 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 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. Current schemes include
Parkour/Free Running (Gymnastic based activity)
Hip Hop Experiment (Urban Arts)
Young Master Golf (Golf Accreditation
Sports based Activities
To have a look at some examples of the Positive Futures projects please click on the link below.
