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Theatre learning for schools
A new brochure produced by Ci for two London young people's theatre companies is now available for download.
This is part of an innovative project in which Cultural Intelligence was asked to help Immediate Theatre and Face Front Inclusive Theatre to work together to improve their offer for schools. The brochure includes a wealth of performances and workshops which provide a comprehensive offer across the PSHE, Healthy Schools and Wellbeing curriculum.
Topics include sex and relationships, identity and diversity, road safety, creativity, bullying guns, knives and gangs and school engagement.
Believe Achieve Succeed
The Ci evaluation of the NORCAS Transition Service in Ipswich has been published. The transition service is designed to address a gap in provision for people aged 18-25 with problematic substance misuse. This age group are too old for services for under 18's but often fail to engage with adult services when they can find intimidating or inappropriate to their needs.
Ali Hall. Head of Service Delivery and Quality (Youth) at NORCAS said "We are delighted with this report. It is really useful and the Board love it"
In the report, the key strengths of the service were identified as 1. its young people focus. 2. its no boundaries approach and 3. the high level of trust it achieves. The report also praised the extent to which the service is integrated with and valued by other agencies addressing the needs of young people.
You can download the report here
Voyage to Success 2012
Britian's longest serving sail training vessel is to circumnavigate Britain crewed by young people who have overcome significant disadvantage. The project aims to use the occasion of the Olympic games to build confidence and raise aspirations.
Back in 2010 Ci was asked by Cirdan Sailing Trust to research ways of securing Duet’s future helping young people to build confidence and learn team working skills. Noticing that she would be celebrating her centenary in 2012 we suggest an Olympic project and Voyage to Success 2012 was born.
Different groups of young people will sail in relay around Britain carrying a baton crafted from the timber of the Cutty Sark. The first group departing London at the end of May will be young care-leavers from Barnardos. At each crew-change port they will host an Olympic athlete to help inspire their progress. Under the guidance of a professional crew, the young people will be responsible for every aspect of running the vessel from sail handing to cooking.
The project will link two Olympic venues and is part of the London 2012 Inspire Programme.
From end-May young people will be keeping an online blog. For more details link to The Cirdan Trust
Too Much Too Young
The Funded by Children in Need and a NORCAS public appeal, Too Much Too Young is a new programme of support for young people affected by parental alcohol or drug abuse. The programme is starting in Norwich and Great Yarmouth and may extend to other areas.
Cultural Intelligence has been commissioned to document the new programme and to conduct an external evaluation. A major part of the work will be the development of a new resilience assessment tool which we hope may have application in a number of different settings.
"Resilience is the ability to cope with life's knocks in spite difficult circumstances. So much of our work on projects with young people, older people and communities is about building resilience so we are delighted to be supporting 'Too Much Too Young'" Eric Orme, Director
Immediate Theatre Benefit Party - coming soon
Our friends at Immediate Theatre are planning a party! As a follow-up to 'Frenzy' a creative response to the riots in Hackney (as seen on BBC1) this is a celebration of the achievement of young people in Hackney and includes the premier of 'Get the Greedy', food, fun and dancing. see here for more details #popup_party
Theatre in Schools Partnership
Cultural Intelligence is to support an innovative project to help embed theatre within the health and social education programmes of schools in East London.
The organisation has been commissioned to research and develop a strategy to build relationships between the Theatre in Schools Partnership (TiSP) and key schools in five London Boroughs. The aim is that schools will benefit from a more comprehensive and high quality PSHE and SEAL offer from TiSP theatre companies the companies will be better placed to respond to the needs of local schools.
Social impact interim report published
The first stage of research conducted by Cultural Intelligence on behalf of East Anglia's largest independent drugs and alcohol charity has been published.
Since Autumn 2010 Ci has been working with NORCAS stakeholders to explore the wider social impact of the organisation's work to combat the problems of alcohol and substance misuse.
The interim report includes the views of clients as well as those close to them who are directly affected by their addictive behaviour. Representatives from the criminal justice system and sectors such as housing, health and local authorities have also contributed to the report.
The findings of this qualitative report have been used to inform the design the quantitative phase of the research which is due to report in July 2012. The interim report is available for download here.
Young people centre stage for TV riot debate
BBC 1's INSIDE OUT (London) on Tuesday 17th October is to feature young people from one of Ci's projects. Participants from Immediate Theatre's Estate Based Youth Theatres researched and devised an evening of forum theatre as their response to recent riots in Hackney. The evening of forum theatre was filmed by BBC 1 for the programme which will focus on the riots in London. Viewers outside London can catch the programme on iplayer for 7 days.
Transforming theatre transforming lives
Cultural Intelligence is to help transform the socially-driven theatre organisation Immediate Theatre. The award winning company known for its innovative estate-based work with excluded young people in Hackney has commissioned Cultural Intelligence to conduct research and provide strategic marketing support to build on 16 years success using theatre to engage vulnerable and excluded young people and move them into employment and a self reliant life.
"I am especially excited about this new partnership with Immediate" said Ci's Director, Eric Orme "I began my career working in young people's theatre in the multicultural communities of the West Midlands so this is something of a return to my roots. This challenge nicely combines Ci's long experience in arts marketing with our more recent work on socially engaged research which makes a real difference to the lives of young people".
http://www.immediate-theatre.com/
Information Game seminar
Findings from 'The Information Game', Ci's research into how marginalised adults in Suffolk access the important information needed to lead a full life, are to inform the development of new thinking among local authorities and third sector organisations in Suffolk. The findings will be presented at a seminar in Ipswich on 9th September alongside new research recently conducted by University College Suffolk. It is hoped that new thinking emerging from the seminar will help address the 'struggle factor' identified so clearly by Ci's research.
http://www.researchingpeople.org.uk/projects/entry/the-information-game
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