Step Forward Tees Valley supports local people to overcome the complex reasons preventing them from finding work. These barriers could include physical or mental ill-health, a lack of self-confidence, a gap in skills, a conviction, or an addiction.
The project helps people to build on their strengths and aspirations, using the skills and expertise of partners and local employers to achieve their goals. The project is committed to making a real and lasting change in Tees Valley.
Over three years, Step Forward Tees Valley will work with 2,500 people across Tees Valley by supporting them to take advantage of existing voluntary or employment possibilities, as well as working with local employers to create new opportunities.
Theme 1: Confidence Building& Life Skills
Theme 2: Emotional Resilience and Stress Management
Theme 3: Healthy Lifestyle and Education (Health Literacy).
This programme will aim to develop knowledge and awareness toward a range of strategies that promote wellbeing. Through encouraging clients to adopt healthier lifestyles developing, life skills that inform positive steps to change building confidence and self-esteem, clients will be better equipped to ‘move on’ in their lives in the context of:
Through introducing clients to practical self-help techniques using resources carefully and creatively developed (personalised). This programme aims to equip individuals to recognise their own ‘strengths’ and weaknesses’ to support personal goal setting and assist in making positive steps to develop improved wellbeing and greater personal resilience.
This course will also support people to develop their personal and social skills - helping clients to identify and develop the essential skills and personal attributes that contribute to a healthier and more prosperous life!
Nigel Brough, Senior Programme Manager (Communications Lead) – Tel: 07752767567
E-mail: nigel.brough@pcp.uk.net
Toni McHale, Programme Manager – Tel: 01642 688312
E-mail: toni.mchale@pcp.uk.net
Liz Godfrey, Learning for Health Coordinator (Specialist Tutor) – Tel: 07890642694
E-mail: liz.godfrey@pcp.uk.net
The Step Forward Tees Valley Partnership is a Building Better Opportunities Programme funded by the Big Lottery Fund and the European Social Fund until July 2019, as part of their investment in local projects that tackle the root causes of poverty and promote social inclusion.
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