SERVICE DETAILS
We work with you and your family as you prepare to move on from school to adult life.
Thistle YP is a dynamic, creative and collaborative project, working alongside young people, their families, schools and communities, to take steps towards the future they want.
We believe that planning for your future after school should be exciting, whatever support you need. We use drama, the Big Plan and peer meet-ups to help you discover your own way, and make the plans that make sense to you.
Drama
Thistle YP starts in school and uses drama sessions to help you explore your feelings about the future and think about choice, change and possibilities.
Big Plan
We’ll then invite you, along with your family members, friends, and members of the community, to come together over a series of evening sessions to make plans together for a great life after school. We work together to recognise your unique strengths, dreams and hopes for the future, and to create a plan to move you closer to the future you want.
Peer meet-ups
Our peer meet-ups then help you keep connected to friends when you move on from school, and grow your confidence in trying new things and discovering new places together in your city. We’ll work with you as you build your skills to get out and about, and find out what’s out there for you.
We can carry on working with you in whatever way you need and will continue to support you as you take control of the direction of your life.
Our national work
Thistle YP has been funded through the Scottish Government’s Self Directed Support Innovation Fund to grow and deepen our local work in Edinburgh and Midlothian, and to build capacity with partners across Scotland.
Over the next two years we will be developing work in four new geographical areas, working alongside statutory agencies and the third sector to develop the parts of the project that make most sense to them. If you’re interested in finding out more, or in becoming a partner, please get in touch.
Get in touch...
To find out more or to arrange a meeting please contact thistleYP@thistle.org.uk.
