Life Routes: Giving young people the skills to grow

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Sophie Wood

Programme Manager

Life Routes

National Children's Bureau

8 Wakley Street

London EC1V 7QE

United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)20 7843 6000

Fax: +44 (0)20 7278 9512

Email: swood@ncb.org.uk

Welcome to Life Routes

Life Routes is an innovative life-skills programme, specifically developed to raise levels of young people’s self-confidence and awareness of their own potential through project and team-based learning. It empowers young people to take responsibility for their own development.

Life Routes works with vulnerable young people aged 11-19 through a network of local programmes funded and supported by Nokia and managed by the National Children’s Bureau in the four government regions identified as having the highest indices of deprivation: North East, North West, Yorks and Humber and London. Life Routes is part of an international network of programmes through the International Youth Foundation (www.iyfnet.org)

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Outcomes

Since January 2004 Life Routes has reached over 15,000 young people
Over 500 practitioners have engaged with Life Routes through training sessions, project development and conferences
85% of the young people increased levels of team work, respect for others, listening skills and critical thinking
Young people said they planned to put their learning into practice by:
- Being positive and not giving up
- Showing how they have become better communicators
- By doing better at school
- Becoming more active in their local communities