| Positive Futures - Coventry |
Positive Futures - Coventry
Geographical Area: Hillfields, Charterhouse and parts of Foleshill
Age Range Min: 10
Age Range Max: 19
Gender Specific: no
| Culturally Specific: no
Method of Access: Open access as well as third party referral
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| Description |
Offers a variety of sports based initiative to engage young people. Drug education is delivered alongside the activities through a partnership with SHADOW.
Activities are either school based, delivered during curriculum time, or based outside schools in the evenings and during the weekends.
Football, golf, cricket, and fitness are amongst the sporting activities available to young people. |
| Objectives |
• National aims of Positive Futures – “By engaging marginalised young people in sport and other activities, Positive Futures aims to build relationships between responsible adults and young people based on mutual trust and respect, in order to create new opportunities for alternative lifestyles.
• The programme aims to use sport as a catalyst to encourage participants to make decisions for themselves, and to take self-determined steps towards a positive future. Steering young people towards educational and employment opportunities is at the heart of the programme’s agenda.” |
| Staff Profile |
| Project co-ordinator + sessional staff depending on the activities. |
| Linked Organisations |
| Partnership with local drug agency SHADOW. The service also has close links with the Police and YOT and Social Services and other local agencies who have contact with young people. |
