Youth Development Packages
Elevation offer a variety of different care & support packages to Local Authority Social Service and Youth offending departments, these include...
24 Hour Supervision including Accommodation Daytime Supervision, Active Development Sessions, Personal Development Sessions, Social Interaction skills & Communication Sessions, Team Working Sessions, Supported Home Living, Post Care Support package 16+, Independence House, Emergency Short Stay Accommodation, 24 Hour Emergency Call Out Service.
On A Mission
Real kids Need Real People is the philosophy that has evolved out of our Directors work over the last 10 years. This is a philosophy that has continually produced positive results and has been applied using "realistic role models". Utilising these realistic role models with young offenders and troubled young people from care has seen results that have extended far beyond the expectations of all people previously involved with the young people. Elevation will continue to supply a service of support based on the fact that reality works, reality of support in the widest range of situations - in the home, in education, in social skills, in training, in crime and drug free lifestyles, in health. This real support is provided on a basis of safety, stability and opportunity for the young people within an unwritten contract of mutual respect between the young people and the staff.
Elevation provide real workable opportunities for young people to develop in a positive manner giving them realistic expectations and the real ability to control their own lives with the knowledge the support IS there should they fall. Elevation will continue to provide best value service to the local Authorities and the best possible service to the young people in our care whether they be accommodated or on a day time sessional basis. Elevation will expand this real and workable modus operandi into other fields such as an extensive information and resource centre and a high quality specialist education service.
Elevation will continue to work through the mediums of sport , music & art developing highest quality opportunities for young people to participate in positive activities with realistic role models.
Statement Of Purpose (edited summary)
Elevation Youth Care Solutions specialise in working with young people aged between 12 and 18 years of age. These young people may have a history of offending or have experienced problems in coping with life in the care system. All have come from difficult backgrounds and may have suffered abuse of some form. Elevation provide a safe and effective environment for these young people to learn and develop in a positive manner. Whether the young people be accommodated by Elevation or worked with on a sessional basis, Elevation provide a level of stability and familiarity in which to work with the young people. Elevations highly trained staff create a protected environment for young people in which to express themselves and develop without fear of harm. Elevation firmly believe in the reality of and the necessity for training and education in order to open a variety of opportunities to young people and to assist them in maintaining a crime free life style. With this in mind Elevation have created links with projects such as Include , YMCA Training, Bristol Athletic 2012 Sports Project, Patikular Music and a host of other benificial organisations.
Elevation Youth Care Solutions staff receive at least sixty hours in the field training. members of Elevation staff are hand picked from different sectors of the community and have been known to the Directors for a minimum of 18 months. The team are results orientated and usage of individuals is based on assessed outcomes and effects of work done. Elevation insist on a standard of excellence from the staff team in order to maintain our standard of excellence in our service delivery to the young people. Elevation have a highly respected staff team of which we are rightly proud. In the main the team is young and have experienced some of the same hardships as the young people that we work with. Our staff have managed to make a positive life for themselves and as such make excellent role models for the young people in our care. We also have older members of staff who come from varied backgrounds including Social Services, Music and Fostercare backgrounds who can utilise their experience in working with young people. Elevation are committed to operating an equal opportunities policy and anti - discriminatory practices throughout the organisation and its work in relation to and regardless of sex, race, culture, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, ability, disability and/or any other group that may be vulnerable or subject to discrimination. As well as using internal procedures Elevation staff members work closely with young peoples social workers, YOT workers and educators in order to asses their needs accurately and to create effective plans for their development. Elevation believe that the young person involved must be included in the decision making process and therefore encourage their participation in all meetings relevant to them. Elevation fully subscribe to the Every Child Matters principles. The Elevation Staff team is trained in effective child development work and create and maintain effective relationships with the young people. This provides a scenario where by Elevation can realistically help a young person develop from troubled teenager through to being a contributing member of society maintaining a drug and crime free lifestyle. Elevation believe in providing adequate support to young people as they move into independence and offer specifically tailored packages to achieve this end.
A Selection of Elevations Current Packages
1) 24 Hour Supervision/Alternative To Custody
Accomodation coupled with 24 hour supervision 1 to 1 with a member of the youth support team.
Sessional work such as rockclimbing, swimming, football, life skills - budgeting, computer skills, business skills, employment and further training advice, general education provision, self-esteem work and harm minimisation work.
2) Basic Accommodation Package
Young person will be accommodated in a residential unit with no more than one other young person. This package does not include any sessional work however the young people may be included in pre-arranged activities.
3) Active Development Sessions
These sessions comprise of structured activities designed to improve the young persons basic social interaction skills, engender the ethos of team work and establish a sense of normality. The sessions will be either physical activity e.g. football, basketball, rock climbing, swimming, squash, tennis or badminton or culturally enlightening e.g. cinema, museums, day trips, etc.
Each session will last for approximately 3 hours but may vary according to the length of the activity.
4) Personal Development Sessions
These sessions are to a certain extent tailored according to the young persons needs but are essentially based around improving self esteem, self confidence, decision making skills, relationship skills, social interaction skills, anger management, responses to authority, taking responsibility and self awareness.
Each session lasts 3 hours.
5) Social Interaction Skills and Communication
These sessions will take the young persons' social interaction skills to a higher level dealing with interacting with business people and in the workplace, people with authority, new social environment, speaking on the telephone, writing letters, using email, interviewing techniques and interpersonal problem solving skills.
Each session will last for 3 hours and make up a course of 10 sessions or can be given on an on-going basis over a 10 week period.
6) Team Working Sessions
These sessions focus on the problems that can arise when working as part of a team and will look at - communication and reporting, role filfilment and expectations, discussion and compromise, accepting authority and conflict resolution.
Each session will last for 3 hours and make up a course of 10 sessions.
7) Supported Home Living
Daytime sessional work with users and their families both independently and as a group to encourage sustained home living and prevent breakdown of the family unit. Sessions for young persons as in 24 hour package plus specifically designed "Parents as a Couple" and "Whole Family" sessions. Based on 2 members of staff conducting 2 session per day.
8) Post Care Support Package
One to One sessional work entailing specific independent living advice, Local Authority agency coordination and advice, information networks, Supportive contact.
A six month contract starting with thrice weekly session of three hours each scaled down to a once fortnightly three hour session in the final month.
9) Emergency Shot Stay (3 - 5 days) Accommodation. (24 hour notice required.)
Intensive support for duration of the stay. Based on 3 sessions per day.
10) 24 Hour Emercency Call Out Service
24 hour emergency call out service for attending police stations, transportation of young people and any other requirements of young people in trouble.