Mentoring priority people
Description of project
Poverty, educational disadvantage, peer pressure, poor starts, harsh environments, and the vicious disparity of school readiness means a large cohort of our young people from diverse communities fail to achieve academically. Every single barrier imaginable and some we can’t imagine are placed in front of them. If they do get to interview stage, they don’t always have the vernacular to articulate their worth and more importantly drop the middle class reference points that would help a potential employer warm to them and recognise their potential. But everything changes with diversity, everything gets better.
How?
- Extend the offer of providing appropriate mentoring advice to young people from Leeds - 10% most deprived priority neighbourhoods to include study tips, resource access (whatever that might be), CV guide and career choice. Whatever they need
- If interested in a career in public health, social care or health we offer them a work placement taster to see if it’s a potential future for them
- For a set time period we relax, reduce, or remove entry qualification points for newcomers in public health and aid them to get there by offering study leave and we grow our own talent
Target population group
Young people from the 10% most deprived populations where community diversity and indices of multiple deprivation are at the highest; the pandemic has been felt the worse; there is little or no or little economic regeneration or early years educational investment.
How will success be measured?
- The number of young people we can mentor from our 10% most deprived communities
- Ability to secure further education, a job or career
- This is a five to 10-year project minimum