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Building Bridges Tutors, Support Workers, Media Adminis, CV1 4LY
- Recruiting
Supporting, tutoring (varying instruments of their choice) and/or providing casual and comfortable environment for Young People in Care.
When we need you:
- Weekends
Address
1 - 4 Canal Basin (next to Taylor Johns House), Coventry, West Midlands, CV1 4LY
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More info
Preferably for Music (or Arts) Students, Music Tutors and Professional Musicians, but anyone is welcome, we can find you a role if you're passionate :)
Groups such as The Coventry Foyer provide supported lodgings for 16 to 25 years olds who have had challenging backgrounds. These groups do not stretch to under 16s.
Whilst this group and others like it make an astounding impact on the individuals they help to grow, there are still many, many young people who are placed from one temporary fix to the next, unable to gain stability and come to terms with the experiences they may have already spent years trying to understand and deal with.
In the last 5 years approximately 15 care leavers in Coventry have gone onto higher education. In Solihull, even less (10). (this stat. was taken early in late 2009)Whilst this group and others like it make an astounding impact on the individuals they help to grow, there are still many, many young people who are placed from one temporary fix to the next, unable to gain stability and come to terms with the experiences they may have already spent years trying to understand and deal with.
In the last 5 years approximately 15 care leavers in Coventry have gone onto higher education. In Solihull, even less (10). (this stat. was taken early in late 2009)Whilst organisations such as AimHigher are doing an amazing job at mentoring young people with 'challenging backgrounds' and specified issues (ie. my role as an associate was specific to young people in care), to really help them, we must establish and replace (to the extent we can) what they may be missing at home.
What these young people need is stability, friendship and reliable role models, they need people around them who genuinely care for their well-being and their future, preferably others who have been through the care system.
Please forward this to as many people as you can and help spread awareness of this pressing cause, these young people are our future, and further more, part of our society, our responsibility - we must help them to grow and form a better tomorrow, than what we have today.
The Building Bridges Festivals are channeled towards raising money for the Building Bridges Project which involves taking groups of young people in care for music lessons and giving them the opportunity to meet care leavers, and others from challenging backgrounds, who have found happiness and success, as well as meeting other young people in care who they can form relationships and share experiences with.By giving them free music lessons and a relaxed, generally musical, and supportive environment in which to have these and 'jam' between sessions, they are given the opportunity and the means to express any anger, resentment and hurt that they may well be harbouring - channeling this at a young age can help greatly in later life when these harboured emotions begin to surface and can help to prevent any further hardship by means of these past experiences.
All requests for information on how to get involved in supporting these young people will be gratefully welcomed and will recieve response accordingly, whether you wish to be involved in Building Bridges, maybe you're thinking about fostering, or simply just want some more details from someone who has been through the care system and managed to put a successful life together afterwards.
To you it's one bedroom. Some spare time otherwise spent down the pub, or watching television. To them, you could be saving their life. The Solihull 16+ Team, Barbara Williams, and of course all things Music & Jazz, saved mine. -
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