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Youth Aid
LECP's focus is to provide effective, innovative, and young people focused services across the London region that meet local community priorities and support young people to achieve their full potential. For the past 3 years LECP has donated money to a local young person focused charity, to help support the work they do and improve the lives of young people.
This year, the donation was made to Youth Aid. Youth Aid is a small, voluntary sector youth organisation that carries out an extensive programme of work including, running drop-in advice and counseling sessions for young people and carrying out group work. Youth Aid works in collaboration with a number of organisations to develop appropriate responses for young people in the fields of health education, volunteering, employment, careers advice, and educational support.
Ian Porter, LECP's Chief Executive visited Youth Aid and presented Youth Aid's Director, Maria Dalrymple with a cheque for £250.00. Maria commented "We are most grateful for your support. All donations are put to the best use for the young people who connect with Youth Aid Lewisham".
If you would like to know more about Youth Aid and the work they do visit: http://www.youthaid.org.uk/
Motivate to Achieve: Working with young adults in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets
LECP has successfully won a contract to deliver 'Motivate to Achieve' in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.
'Motivate to Achieve', will provide individualised one to one support for 25 young adults aged 16-19 not in education, employment or training (NEET), through a range of adventure based personal and social development opportunities. Each young adult will be supported by a project worker and will be given the opportunity to experience new environments, explore new activities and raise aspirations helping them into education, employment or training (EET) outcomes.
'Motivate to Achieve' works with young adults on intensive individually tailored programmes to increase knowledge on life choices. To do this, young adults will be challenged and introduced to new experiences therefore encouraging self awareness, raising aspirations and increasing social development.
Over 10 Weeks young adults will recieve:
- One-to-one advice sessions on EET
- A soft skills programme
- Opportunities to attend Residential activity
- Continuous information, advice and guidance
Project workers will also work with young adults to improve work skills including presentation, both in the way the young adults present themselves and in the way they work, communication, key skills, behaviour and attitude.
The 'Motivate to' brand: has been successfully replicated for projects run by LECP within London East boroughs e.g. 'Motivate to Work', 'Motivate to Succeed' and 'Motivate to Achieve'. In each instance, outputs and outcomes have been met with young adults gaining real benefits from attending the project, many have moved on to training and work opportunities.
"This project was extremely useful and gave me a huge confidence boost and motivation. I also did training in First Aid and Health & Safety and am currently in a temporary job in a retail shop in Central London"
(Direct quote from young adult on Motivate to Achieve.)
If you would like more information on the Motivate to Achieve project or how it can help young adults in your area, please contact, Philip Mathew, Project Manager:
T: 020 8536 3630
E: Philip.mathew@londoneastconnexions.co.uk
CWDC Youth Participation Bid Successful
LECP Training has successfully secured a bid under the CWDC Participation and Diversity fund to run a programme in which young people from different communities will develop training for youth practitioners are the issues of communication and engaging with diverse young people. The bid, in partnership with community organisations like: Youth AID Lewisham, East London Somali Youth & Welfare Centre, Junior Muslim Circle and the African Youth League is in line with the governments 'One Workforce' framework. CWDC projects blog: http://lecp-cwdcparticipationproject.ning.com/
LECP Training Blog and Social Network site:
LECP Training and Development have recently launched a blog /social network site at: http://lecp-training.ning.com/ . The site contains details of all courses that we run, but also relevant courses run by other organisations, making it a youth workforce training 'one-stop-shop'. One benefit to signing up, is that all members in the network have access to details of special offers, such as last minute discounts or even FREE places on LECP training.
CPD Certified
As part of our quality assurance initiative. LECP Training & Workforce Development is now a member of the Continuing Proffessional Development (CPD) Certification Service.
LECP Training & Workforce Development have gained accreditaion for several of their courses already, with many more to follow in the coming weeks:
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CAF Cards for Practioners (8 July) - 5.5 CPD hours
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Working across Culture (15 July) - 5.5 CPD hours
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Professional Boundaries for Practioners (21 July) - 5.5 CPD hours
Historically, CPD has been viewed as only relevant to members of professional bodies. However there is growing recognition of the importance of lifelong learning. Employees in a range sectors, job roles and employment settings need to demonstrate their commitment to professional development.
The CPD Certification Service helps organisations provide certified CPD and acts as a point of contact for those seeking to obtain certified CPD material. It supports further learning initiatives being undertaken by Government, professional institutions, trade associations, individual organisations, training providers, suppliers and so on. For more information about the CPD certification service, please visit www.cpduk.co.uk.
Launch of Choice Jobs
Choice, the on line e-Prospectus for Young People aged 14-19 has launched Choice Jobs. Choice Jobs lists and provides details on Apprenticeships and employment for the cohort which is available across London's 33 boroughs. There are vacancies from Beauty to Building & Construction and Mathematics to Manufacturing! The new microsite, which replaces London Opportunities & Information Systems (LOIS), has categories searchable by Keyword or Profession, is easy to use and delivers results quickly and clearly. Visit the site today and see what Choice of jobs are out there for you. www.mychoicelondon.co.uk
E is for Excellence!
LECP has been successfully reaccredited in the EFQM Recognised for Excellence quality assessment.
The assessment took place in October 2008 and measured LECP on the criteria that underpins the EFQM Excellence Model; Leadership, People, Policy and Strategy Partnerships and Resources, Processes, Customer, People and Society Results.
Two EFQM assessors spent a week finding out about LECP, our processes and people. They spent time within each department and gathered the views of employees, young people, partners and other key stakeholders. At the end of the quality assessment, LECP was presented with a report which outlines areas of strengths and gave recommendations for future practice.
Feedback included that although LECP is not a huge organisation it achieves its results delighting all stakeholders in a balanced way. Assessors went on to report that
"Excellent organisations will have relevant ways to measure how they operate across the range of activities and stakeholders. Especially for an organisation of this size, it is not about creating a resource-hungry bureaucracy of measurement, but about developing something useful and appropriate to the organisation. As well as tracking results across all stakeholders to understand the extent to which it has succeeded and achieved balance, the information and understanding of needs is used to develop services and meet and anticipate the needs of all stakeholders."
They then pinpointed on LECP's vision and stated the following:
"One of the overriding themes that we experienced in LECP is the clear customer focus, exhibited especially - but certainly not exclusively - by the people working face-to-face with young people. A sense of passion, or vocation, came across from all those we met. This feeds into personally tailoring the services for young people to meet their individual needs."
LECP is recommended for Recognised for Excellence at the 3 star level.
*For more information or the full report EFQM report, please contact LECP's Marketing Department
E: marketing@londoneastconnexions.co.uk
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