Schools and Communities

We see schools as the key holders to community transformation. That's why all the services we offer are based in schools and around school communities, enabling the school to better support the families and young people they are concerned about.

Support programmes

We've created a simple way for you, as a school, to assess and plan the best support needed for each individual young person identified as struggling with behaviour, attendance or engagement. The six support areas below indicate what you can access. They are listed in order of how intensive the programme is for the young person and family starting with the least intensive. Once you know what would best suit your young person, fill in the simple referral form. It takes less than a couple of minutes.

Live Youth Projects

A young person might find working directly with a professional or mentor difficult. Live Youth projects are structured activity groups for young people highlighted as 'as risk' in their community in order to build relationships and to support safe space play.

Community mentors

You know as well as we do, expressions of poor behaviour in school are not always education related. Through community mentors Young People can informally access positive role models who are visible in their community, who can build relationships with their siblings and parents and who can be a Young Person's voice in difficult family environments.

Schools based mentoring

One-to-one mentoring can support and encourage a young person to manage their own learning, help them to see the potential in themselves, develop their personal inter-relational skills, build role model relationships they can look up to and discover a way to develop into the person they want to be. Group based mentoring is available to young people who share similar issues and have difficulties in working through their issues individually. Group work can be very powerful, and builds in Restorative Approaches to learning.

BE inclusion support

The behavioural education programme is a structured and accredited provision that strategically addresses the young person's needs whilst engaging them in a safe, relaxed and enjoyable project. The program aims to reengage pupils with mainstream school and therefore enhances mainstream education rather than providing an alternative to it. Core subjects (such as Maths, English, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, modern languages plus other academic subjects) are taught in a creative way. By integrating them with life skills the barriers between positive activities and education are broken down.

All young people will be assessed as part of their programme, and as an attendee of the BE programme their family are automatically offered other services like mentoring, after school clubs and parenting support. Schools receive an evaluation of behaviour (with measures and outcomes) each month that your young person engages with the BE programme.

Referrals can be made for up to 8 students (preferably of similar year groups) and each young person receives an initial assessment of needs. Depending on the project your pupils are suited to, the One-Eighty team would either come into the school to run our 'Raise The Bar' project or transport pupils for alternative projects one day a week to our community centre in Northway.

To look at a flow chart that can help you to see if your young person is suitable and for a more detailed description of the individual projects download the fact-sheet here.

Family programme

A referral for a young person might indicate that issues at home are impacting the young persons behaviour more than any other issue. Multi-professional links mean that a targeted programme for the whole family can be developed.