The Prince’s Trust Working for Wellbeing pilot scheme gives students the opportunity to complete an up to 80-day work placement on the charity’s 12-week personal development scheme for disadvantaged young people.
The Working for Wellbeing scheme, which is funded by the Zurich Community Trust, aims to improve the emotional wellbeing of the young people on the Prince’s Trust’s Team Programme and help social workers understand mental health issues and how to handle them. So far 44 student wellbeing support workers have been placed on the programme.
Director of policy and innovation at the Prince’s Trust Ginny Lunn said: "The young people we support often have difficult backgrounds or suffer symptoms of long-term unemployment – from depression and anxiety to a debilitating lack of confidence.
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