Future U enables participants to reflect on difficulties [within school and in their personal lives].
By applying a solution-focused approach to build strategies for a positive relationship with learning and an improved ability to tackle personal challenges.
‘As an Evidence Based programme Future U has been designed to incorporate and apply the theoretical principles of:
- Department for Education Research into Young People, Class, Gender and Socio-Economic Status
- The Comprehensive Social Influence Model(s) of Resilience Education
- Attachment Theory
Furthermore evidence shows that building young people’s resilience to risk significantly improves their future life chances in terms of physical and mental well-being together with meaningful employment in later life.
- Through taking part, young people’s sense of self, their agency and self-efficacy is improved.
- Future U, being evidence based, stimulating and motivating, equips them with the ability to better engage with school, the community and wider society.
- Enhancing life-skills thus reducing the risk of longer-term unhealthy outcomes caused by drugs and alcohol misuse, smoking and crime involvement
- Future U improves later life prospects
Over an 8-week period young people are enabled to explore challenges in their lives including school, and to learn to build coping strategies equipping them with knowledge, understanding, skills and experiences to manage themselves in a more positive manner