YourSpace

Stratford YourSpace Course

Six young people have just completed a Personal Development Course, based in Stratford. Louise, Dom, Jonny, Jason, Matt and Mike all took part in the YourSpace Project, which was developed and delivered in partnership by WAYC and LifeSpace.

The group attended Tyler Street Youth Centre every Tuesday and Wednesday fro 5 weeks nd took  part in various activities and discussions covering various themes such as relationships, dealing with feelings, reating CV's, interview skills, bullying, goal setting, assertiveness skills, team buiding, communication skills and working on self esteem and confidence.

The day's were organised in a way that would suit the young people and the way that they worked best - we had morning and had lunch from 1pm until 2pm, the young people also cooked for themselves every day - we tried various new foods such as healthy breakfasts, coronation chicken, salads,  corned beef hash, sweet and sour chicken and pizza'a which enabled the group to put into practice a lot of the skills they were developing during  the course, as well as deeveloping new cooking and life skills and providing a healthy alternative for lunch.

Every participantwill gain at least 2 Youth Achievement Awards Challanges which they  can record in their Record of Achievements, they all also made appointments with local Connexions PA in order to provide ongoing support once the course had finished.

We ended the course with a morning of evaluations  and then had our celebration event which was lunch out and then a go-karting trip which everyone really and was  fantastic  way to end the course!