Young People's Services
Young People’s Service
Impact’s Young People’s Services in Sussex aim to provide safe environments for young people aged 13-25 years where they will be respected, valued and can access advice, information and counselling services that are non judgemental and which support the promotion of good health, independence and learning.
We provide:
- Weekly drop-in facilities offering access to support, information and advice in a safe youth focussed setting
- Sexual health clinics and services
- Free and confidential counselling by qualified counsellors
- Specialist support for young people around education, employment and training which is run in partnership with Sussex Connections.
Impact is committed to involving young people in the design and delivery of young people’s services. In Brighton, the youth forum provides a structured format for input from young people.
“It's a brilliant place for young people and it's a good place to go if you are worried about anything.“
We're always looking for volunteers, with a little bit of patience and understanding who can help deliver these courses to the young people. Full training will be given. So if you've got a couple of hours a week to spare and enjoy working with young people, we would love to hear from you.
Services for young people and children include
- Open Door, Eastbourne
- Young People's Centre, Brighton
Last year
- Over 3606 visits were made by young people to our drop-in centres
- Over 350 young people used sexual health services
- 166 young people used the counselling services
- 75% were between 3-18 years old
- 25% were male
- 9% were from black & ethnic minorities
- 297 emergency food packs were distributed to young people in Eastbourne.
- 136 young people used IT facilities in Brighton
- There were an average of four visits per young person to address those complex issues.
Links
Connexions Sussex
www.connexions-sussex.org.uk
Equal Brighton and Hove
www.equalbrightonandhove.org
Impact is very grateful for support from the Equal project:
The Young People’s Centre (YPC) has secured additional funding to develop and deliver new innovative training and employment initiatives for young people. In partnership with Sussex Connections, we have employed two new specialist Equal/Connexions personal advisors (PAs) including a BME advisor and a mental health/LGBT advisor.
We are also the lead delivery partner for a new training and employment programme employing a part time volunteer project worker and a full time training and employment coordinator delivering a range of bite-sized training sessions for young people, taster employment fairs and matching young people with a volunteer key worker to enable vulnerable young people to progress into education, employment and training.
Both these initiatives will run through to July 2007
European Social Fund
www.esf.gov.uk
British Youth Council www.byc.org.uk
Our Projects
We currently run 15 projects across Sussex.
For a complete listing of all our projects, please see our Services Directory.
Bridge the Gap
"In 1978 IMPACT’s original vision was to: 'Bridge the Gap'. That is to provide services for hard to reach, excluded communities and individuals across Sussex, to ensure access to services and support where there is clearly identified need. We continue to maintain this vision and I am continually inspired to see the range and quality of our services, the dedication of our staff and volunteers and the number of people we are able to help"
Mike Long, Chair
