CYP Now - Young people at the margins sharpen skills and get jobs boost with the arts

Scheme uses the arts and creative tools to support young people on the fringes of society into employability.

Boost creative facilitators use creative tools to help participants move into employment, education or training

Name Boost

Provider Total Insight Theatre

Imagine a third sector where the people affected by, say, crime, mental ill-health or unemployment, co-create the services that support them; where the people impacted by social issues are acknowledged as the experts on their needs, and organisations make strategic decisions to recognise and harness the strengths of the people they support.

This is an asset-based approach, addressing social issues in a way that empowers those supported rather than labelling them as a problem to be solved. Organisations that employ an asset-based approach celebrate and build on the assets of the people they support, empowering them to recognise these assets as strengths.

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