The journey to productive working lives starts well before employment begins. This case study describes how Business Psychologists have supported Educators in investing in young people, to change their outlook and opportunities.
Working with the Hackney Learning Trust, who wanted to address the slow rate of school progress of boys of African/Caribbean descent, they delivered a Programme to help build emotional resilience, self-esteem and self-efficacy in these Students.
Thanks to this Programme, 60 fifteen-year-old young people became more optimistic about their lives and, as a result, schools signing up for the Programme increased from three, in the first year, to 10 in the next.