Raising Your Game
A new project for young people in your area!
What is this project about?
Raising Your Game is a new project for young people aged 14 to 25 with a learning disability, including young people with a learning disability who are at risk of getting into trouble with the police. It helps young people achieve their dreams and change where they live to make it a better place for young people.
Raising Your Game is led by Mencap, the national charity, working together with other charities – Nacro, the crime reduction charity and I CAN, a specialist communication charity. We are working in partnership with Watford Mencap.
What brilliant opportunities can young people expect if they take part?
Young people in the project meet every two weeks in their local area to do all kinds of exciting speaking up, learning and social activities. Among many things, if you join Raising Your Game, you can get involved in:
- Telling people what you need to make your own future and dreams.
- Telling people what support you need to make the important things in life more accessible.
- Using the skills you already have and getting new ones.
- Getting the information, skills and confidence to shape the services you receive and decisions that are made about you.
- Giving advice to people in charge, like public and private businesses, about services and things you need.
- Developing ‘guides’ about how young people should be involved in the important things in life and in their community and get other people in Hertfordshire – and beyond! - using these too.
Here are some of the great things that the young people already taking part in Raising Your Game say about it:
‘It’s fantastic, I love meeting new people here’!
‘It’s very good because we have a laugh! My favourite bit is when we have conversations about what’s important to us’.
‘I like it because everyone here cares about me and supports me with what I want to do in my life’.
If you would like to join Raising Your Game or know a young person that would, please get in touch. Contact Natasha on 07852 230832 or email Natasha.Cock@mencap.org.uk
You can read more about Raising Your Game on our leaflet here
You can read about Raising Your Game on Mencap the national charity’s website here www.mencap.org.uk/raisingyourgame
Nacro's Raising Your Game page: https://www.nacro.org.uk/who-we-are/working-in-partnership/raising-your-game-a-partnership-with-mencap,706,NAP.html