Volunteers could help transform lives in Nuneaton
Warwickshire County Council’s Positive about Young People programme is calling on volunteers to help turn around the lives of young people in Nuneaton.
Working in partnership with national charity ‘Youth at Risk’, the Community Transformation Programme aims to help over 200 of the ‘most alienated and disengaged young people’ in the town recognise and fulfil their potential.
A series of training and coaching activities will give them the skills to help them improve their future prospects, and in doing so, benefit their communities.
Positive about Young People is looking for a number of local practitioners already working with young people, and volunteers from the business and local community to help deliver programmes.
A three-day course called ‘Coaching for Professionals’ will be held between 13 and 15 January 2010 (between 9am and 5.30pm) at the CHESS centre on Cedar Road, Nuneaton, where practitioners and potential volunteers can find out more about the programme and how they can develop new skills.
Parneet Kang, Development Manager for Early Intervention/Prevention at Positive about Young People, said: “The Community Transformation Programme offers young people working with us another chance to make the most of opportunities that may arise, helps them realise goals and how to best achieve them.
“It also provides practitioners and the local community with the chance to get involved in helping to turn around a young person’s life, while learning new skills and practices that can be applies to their own work with young people through the Coaching for Professionals part of the programme.”
If you are interested in attending or would like further information please contact Parneet Kang at Positive about Young People on 02476 754178 as soon as possible.
To find out more about Warwickshire County Council’s Positive about Young People programme, visit http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/payp.