Building Better Futures Now #BBFN - Aspire and Thrive - Coventry Alternative Provision 24/25
Training Provider
Aspire and Thrive
At Aspire and Thrive, we provide therapeutic mentoring services for children and young people who display outward signs of social, emotional, and mental health needs.
Our mentoring spaces and courses are delivered 1:1 in the community. Each mentoring session is three hours in duration. Aspire and Thrive provide transport to and from the mentoring space, collecting and returning children or young people before and after their mentoring space.
Aspire and Thrive are committed to embedding a consistent approach to practice throughout our service. This means we will emphasise a safeguarding ethos and a safe, containing culture that prioritizes children's and young people's mental health and well-being in everything we do. Our approaches are trauma-informed, attachment-aware, and therapeutic.
As caring and nurturing adults, Aspire and Thrive are responsible for guiding children and young people towards young adulthood. We assist in the development of emotional intelligence, enabling them to understand their feelings and recognize how we experience ourselves influences interaction, participation, and communication. This approach allows children to learn how to identify, name, and respond to their feelings with increasing awareness and safety.
At Aspire and Thrive, we are genuinely attuned to children's emotional needs and respond accordingly. Our colleagues explain what they are doing, why they are doing it, and being consistent in their communication and commitments. We strive to create emotionally safe environments for children and young people, attempting to prevent re-traumatization by implementing policies, practices, and safeguarding arrangements. We recognize that these practices are responsive to individual needs and will contribute to protecting young people's opportunities to engage and learn.
Aspire and Thrive are curious to understand how unmet needs emerge within interaction, communication, and behaviour. To achieve this, we have worked closely with our team of clinical psychologists and behavior specialists. This collaboration has developed a therapeutic model of Practice, allowing Aspire and Thrive to provide a psychologically informed practice framework that empowers professionals to be alongside and actively engage children and young people through the development of regulated authentic connections.
Our approach creates psychologically safe environments that foster personal development and individualized aspirations, enabling children and young people to experience encouraging opportunities and make positive contributions, regardless of their lived experiences.
Aspire and Thrive colleagues are highly trained, being inducted across four weeks of task-related learning, upskilling, and preparation to meet the needs of our children and young people.
At least once per half term, Aspire and Thrive colleagues have three learning days; these are mandatory and include:
• Reflective Practice with our clinical team
• Group supervision with our clinical team
• Therapeutic Practice training with our clinical team
ASDAN comprehensive, activity-based course has a proven track record in developing learners' personal, social, and employability skills. Our goal is to engage children and young people to achieve meaningful learning outcomes that enable them to pursue further education, training, and employment. The experiences and opportunities can - Boost learners' confidence by helping them recognise and develop their personal qualities and abilities. Our courses are developed to empower children and young people encouraging them to become partners in the learning process in a doing with approach. Broaden learners' experiences through a diverse range of challenges. - Reward achievements with certification for 10 hours of work and upward. As an accredited centre we can also deliver ASDAN's Personal Development Programmes offering innovative ways to develop, document, and certify a wide range of young people's personal qualities, abilities, and achievements. The course includes 13 modules, covering topics such as Communication, the World of Work, Science, and Technology, along with 192 engaging and creative challenges that can be adapted for every learner.
As part of our induction process, we empower children and young people to select a range of short courses that align with their interests, allowing them to choose their focus areas. This approach fosters engagement and ensures that their voices are heard from the outset.
Our therapeutic programme is tailored to the individual needs of each child or young person. Recognising that some may not yet be prepared for the pressures of formal qualifications, we offer engagement-only sessions to best meet their needs.
Our team comprises highly trained and skilled professionals dedicated to adapting learning spaces and engagement plans to ensure that each child or young person's needs remain the priority. Additionally, all our programmes incorporate core curriculum elements to enhance learners' English and Mathematics skills.
Our courses are delivered on a 1:1 basis in the community. Each session is three hours in duration. We will collect and return children or young people to and from the agreed and appropriate home or school locations
We have three environments in which we deliver our support and services, Nettle Hill, Hood Lane Farm and Gun Hill Fields. At Nettle hill we are developing a therapeutic learning space complimented by a private garden and over seven acres on rural outdoor space. Hood lane farm is a therapeutic mentoring space with exclusive use of the fishing pond where we “tackle minds” fishing is known to reduce stress by affecting the mind and body, fostering a connection with nature, promoting mindfulness enhancing social connections, and encouraging physical activity. Gun hill is a mentoring space where multi sports can be accessed and explored. All spaces and places allow the opportunity to complete tasks towards our personal development, core curriculum offers, digital learning alongside specific and targeted learning plan and individualised aims.
