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Our chance4change project has only been fully operational for 3 months and already has a consistent caseload of 12 young people. Five of these young people were referred to the project as a preventative measure and have not received an ABC following their support package and one young person has successfully completed the terms of their ASBO. Out of the others one is on a full ASBO and five are on ABC’s and beginning to develop their individual support packages.
Chance4change centre’s on four key areas of support; early intervention, support for young people on ABC’s, Interim-ASBOs and full ASBOs. Whether the young person has been issued an ASBO or is showing sign’s of antisocial behaviour chance4change works with the police, schools, social services, parents and communities, acting as a go between, to address behavioural issues and their causes. Each young person is encouraged to produce an action plan to determine where they are, where they want to be and how to get there. This will include community awareness education, citizenship, training options, addressing truancy and participation in reparation measures and community capacity building projects.
Matt is like most young lads, he likes animals, he’s a huge football fan and enjoys nothing more than hanging out with his mates. Unfortunately Matt has been in a wee bit of trouble, trouble with his parents, trouble with school and finally trouble with the police.
Close to being issued with an ASBO Matt was referred to our Chance4Change service two months ago through Youth Justice. Matt has been working on his behaviour using traffic lights as a representation. Red as always means danger, Amber represents a risky situation where trouble might start and green means safe. Through the colour scheme Matt can reflect on previous actions and determine what the triggers were and when he should have left situations.
Matt is now working on a personal magazine that will show his development and mark his success’.
Mark McCabe, Chance4Change Project Workers believes the project has been hugely successful so far.
“Because Chance4Change works to meet the needs of the young person we are consistently seeing really positive outcomes. Working from a person centred approach encourages the young person to look at their behaviour and think about what could change. If you work at a level that the young people understands then they begin to trust you and open up about their behaviour; finding out what makes them tick and their interests helps to move the support in a positive direction.
I have started to build up a network of relationships with professionals who are working with an anti-social behaviour remit. This has allowed me to speak to other professionals to find out how they give support to young people. Working with other agencies, such as the Youth Action Team, Edinburgh City Council, Youth Justice, as well as local schools, has ensured the young people are given the best service and support isn’t being duplicated. The Chance4Change project is in the early stage of its life and is moving in the right direction, more agencies are becoming aware of the service and are beginning to use it.”
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