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The MAD Youth Project
The MAD Youth Project is a youth engagement initiative that emerged out of community consultation clearly indicating that there was nothing for young people to do and nowhere for them to go. As a consequence police anti-social behaviour statistics recorded that the Overpool Estate was a hotspot and there were inter-generational tensions between older residents and the young people themselves.
St Margaret's Community Trust in partnership with Cloverlea Play Centre and Worth Unltd sort funding to invest in a local home-grown Youth Worker. Dale Khan who has lived in Ward End all his life and is now 25, has well established relationships with the local youths, both juniors (aged 12 - 16) and seniors (aged 16 - 24).
The partnership organisations successfully sought funding which enable us to employ Dale and another youth worker to run both centre based and detached youth sessions from Cloverlea Playcentre three times a week.
The funding has allowed us not only to buy resources and pay the Youth Workers to deliver the weekly sessions but also to offer them further professional development and further education opportunities. Both Youth Workers have now successfully completed their Level 1 Youth Work Course and are soon to finish the Level 2 award and Dale has also got his First Aid Certificate.
By giving Dale the hands on delivery experience, mentoring from experienced youth providers from Worth Unltd and further education opportunities we hope to have helped to open future employment and career prospects for him.
The young people decided to called the project the MAD Youth Project, with MAD standing for 'Make a Difference' and in an eighteen month time period Dale with the support and encouragement of the management partners have indeed made a real difference. With the anti-social behaviour statistics now recording the Overpool Estate as a 'cold' spot and relations with older residents and the Police much improved the evidence speaks for itself!
The Three Estate Projects
The MAD Youth Project is part of a wider youth initiative that St Margaret's Community Trust and Worth Unltd are engaged in partnership to deliver. The 3 Estates Project uses mediums such as sports, arts and adventure activities to bring young people from different estates in east Birmingham together. The Project aims to help young people challenge their perspectives on issues such as post code boundaries as well as gang cultures, bullying and racial stereotyping.
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