You vs You is a positive approach to support the development of all young people.

Creating a Community
For Young People to be
Hopeful | Focused | Successful

About You vs You

Ahmed Mohammed life experience has allowed him to come to the realisation that so often as a young person it is very easy to blame others for what’s happening around us and not wanting to take responsibility. Although sometimes we have no control of what might occur to us which may lead to us becoming a victim. Every individual has a story, and this can either make you a hero in your world or a dreamer living a miserable life.

"Being in care has made me who I am today. I’ve been through pain, depression and so often wanted to give up. I was very fortunate to have good people around me who praised me for the effort I put to remain positive, and having resilience in me I was able to maintain a strong mentality. I was able to utilise my support network positively.

The driving force behind my vision is the desire to give back to my community."

You vs You is a positive approach to support the development of all young people. We want to support people to have bright futures, enjoy fulfilling lives and realise their potential through positive relationships and exciting opportunities. By doing this we ensure that our future generation is equipped to create the economic and social changes needed for community development. We can create communities that enable young people to thrive and flourish to be hopeful, focused and successful.

This program will demonstrate how positive encouragement plays a vital role in enabling a young person to feel motivated and recognised in their personal/interpersonal development.

The programme also aims to improve the Mental Health Wellbeing of participants as this is a critical issue within our society.

Investing in young people is crucial to the growth and success of our economy and communities. You vs You will set an example of how this can be done most effectively.

Our Aim

We develop key personal and interpersonal skills:

· Resilience

· Positive thinking

· Mental Well-being

· Communication

· Confidence

· Problem Solving

· Self-belief

· Independence

· Networking

Why You vs You

Hopeful

To be hopeful is to have self-belief, support and guidance from positive and influential people that will stir and navigate you in the right direction to help you achieve your goals.
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Focused

To be focused is to have clear aims, objectives and resources, in an environment that causes less distraction with positive role models to guide one through their journey.
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Successful

To be successful is to achieve an outcome the individual wants for her/himself. Employment and well-being are central outcomes. It can be economic success through enterprise, achievement in education, sporting prowess, artistic expression, political influence or any other chosen goal. Success will be measured by the individual based on their unique
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What We Offer

Information Advice & Guidance (IAG)

Every young person will have a personal goals and the aims at the beginning of the program which will be agreed by the participants and staff. This will enable monitoring of the progress of the participants and establish if targets have been met.

Workshops

Employability- the aim of this is to increase the chances of becoming employable, this will occur over several workshops where we will put together a CV, what to say in a cover letter and how they should be structured, interview skills and mock interviews with staff. This will benefit the group as they will be able to get feedback and tips from an experienced interviewer and how they present themselves in order to have more control in future interviews.

Mental Health – this will be an accredited 2 days Mental Health First Aid training. To help young people understand issues around mental health and how healthy mental health can have positive impact on their wellbeing and social engagement.

Action Learning a process whereby an individual creates solutions to their current and reality situation by asking them questions without advising or judging the person

Work placement

Our work placements is a tool to increase the participants employability skills, each participant will be placed in a 1 week work experience in an industry of their choice, giving them an opportunity to experience the working world and gain key skill for future work opportunities.

Motivational Speaking

Ahmed uses his inspirational story to motivate and encourage young people

to have positive mindset.

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Our Journey

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REFUGEE WEEK

Co Hosted Refugee Week event in 2018 with Coram Voice and sharing my experience as a careleaver and how imporance it is for professionals to understand young peoples perspectives.
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IAG

121 session with a young person discussing about his aspirations/barriers and setting goals on how we can support him to overcome his barriers and achieve his targets.
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ITV

An interview with ITV wales about knife crime and reasons why young people carry a knife.
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Football United

Using sports to bring young refugees/asylum seekers together in a safe environment where they can have fun & forget thier worries. For many is a space to escape the hardship and invision a progressive future.
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“This is a fantastic programme as its coming from a young person who has experienced challenges when growing up and has been through the care system.”

Marjorie Lee

Mentoring, Participation & NEET Co-ordinator

“Ahmed has motivated me in building my confidence and self-esteem, encouraged me to believe in myself and never give up. Due to Ahmed support I now work for GLA as Peer Outreach Worker.”

Lamarr Nembhard

Young Person

“As a care leaver I never see myself achieving anything great in life. Meeting Ahmed has helped me to have positive mindset and to believe that i am capable of becoming the best I can.”