Pathfinder

Leap Confronting Conflict gained YSDF funding in March 2008 from the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

Leap has created an ambitious and exciting Pathfinder Youth Project to extend its work across London and in the north of the country to reach a significantly higher number of disadvantaged young people.

Pathfinder is funded over a period of 3 years from 2008. The two areas selected for delivery in Year 1 were Waltham Forest, London and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Delivery in secondary schools for Year 1 has already reached over 2000 year 9 students with conflict management training. Over 100 young mediators have been fully trained, mediation projects set up, and the mediators resolving conflicts.

Pathfinder Youth Project also delivers in youth centres and youth projects. The Quarrel Shop programme is offered alongside the schools work – to strengthen the sustainability of the work by creating young leaders aged 16 to 21 who can deliver basic conflict resolution work to their siblings, friends and peers in the local community.

Achieving YSDF Pathfinder funding and support to replicate and roll out its tried and tested projects is a step forward for Leap in achieving its vision of ’a nation of young people constructively managing conflict in their communities’.

Pathfinder has just produced a First Steps impact report.

For more information about this project please contact Peta.

Related documents

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• pf-impact-report-yr-1_1250265545.pdf

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