Calling it increased self-esteem doesn't toughen it up much. That young people have done things they thought they never, ever could have done has a hardish suggestion to it. But often vagueness about what that is, or even drippy examples, makes it fall right back into the very soft-furnishings and comfy cushions department.
Young people like youth work. They don't mind fluffy and squidgy, because that is not how it strikes them. But funders are less impressed. Governments, grant-givers and managers need solid, high-performance, rufty-tufty, hard-nosed, heavy-duty, all-weather outcomes for youth work.
That's why the hard folk of Fairbridge have teamed up with the impermeable Foyer Federation over the past four years to trial a system that will transform fluffy and squashy youth work outcomes into rock-hard data. It's a CD-Rom and they are so pleased with it they have formed a joint commercial company to sell it to others.
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