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T&T Youth Engagement

Partnering vulnerable young people with a toddler to mentor, creating transformational change in the young person’s life.

  • Location

    Greater Manchester

  • Launch

    May 2015

  • Area

    Education & Employment

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Department for Work & Pensions

Delivery Partners

  • Teens & Toddlers

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Department for Work & Pensions

Delivery Partners

  • Teens & Toddlers

  • Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

Overview

Teens and Toddlers is a national charity which partners vulnerable young people with a toddler to mentor, creating transformational change in the young person’s life.

The T&T Youth Engagement programme is a follow-on service, after the success of T&T Innovation, supporting 14-16 year olds across Greater Manchester who are at risk of becoming ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET) when they leave school.

Teens and Toddlers partners a young person with a toddler in a local nursery, offering an opportunity for the young person to experience and develop a sense of responsibility and empathy, and allow them to act as a role model.

This project has created both direct impact, fostering better school attendance and/or behaviour among young people, as well as the achievement of educational qualifications, to help improve life outcomes; plus systemic impact through welfare payment savings, social policy trials, and market-building of innovative commissioning models.

Outcomes

T&T Youth Engagement worked with 1,700+ young people over a period of four years.

The intervention achieved 2,100+ school attendance, attitude or behaviour improvements, almost 1,400 entry level qualifications and 700+ Level 1 and 2 education outcomes.

  • 0

    Starts to the programme

  • 0

    Improvements in school behaviour

  • 0

    Qualifications achieved

  • £0.0m

    Outcomes achieved