Improved ability to forge peer relationships amongst young people

The one comment that all of the young people stated was that attending the sessions had improved their ability to communicate and socialise with their peers. Having to work closely together to achieve some of the tasks and having to peer assess had shown them how to better communicate and in turn provided an opportunity to get to know each other rather than just work on a piece of work with each other. However, the youth workers assisted this process of better communicating.

 

Improved attitude towards written work and reading

A parent shared with me that since her son had started the Building Resilience in Young People project that he had a more positive approach to written work and reading in general. However, she further went on to say, that the level of support that her son had been given on the project was also needed in his academic life as it was this that made the important difference.

This comment was also reiterated by some of the other parents whom were impressed that there children had so actively engaged in anything academic on the project. These parents also went on to say that it is because of the way that the staff engaged with their children that was the successful contributory factor and that they would like the teachers to engage in a similar manner.