Positive Progress is a new, innovative approach to helping young people who are struggling to cope in a mainstream environment.

We work in schools, prisons and residential settings bringing a range of accredited therapeutic courses that have been proven to have a positive impact on young people‘s emotional, social and behavioural well being. We believe in a fully integrated approach, combining the pupil’s emotional needs with education, embedding of functional literacy and numeracy skills and behaviour adaption.

The Positive Progress centre will open its doors in September 2010, working with young people across the North East and Yorkshire, in a relational, supportive environment unique to the Positive progress ethos.

At the centre we will offer short to medium term placements with an emphasis on holistic management of education and emotional, social and behavioural wellbeing.

Our goal is to assist young people in transitions, to help them work through unwanted behaviours, supporting them back into a more mainstream environment. Our work has a strong therapeutic influence, combined with an intensive educational programme that focuses on getting the basics right, giving the young person confidence in their ability and a positive experience of a learning environment.

Positive progress can offer help with:

• Short intensive, outcome focused courses targeted at specific issues such as anger management, offending behaviours, low self esteem, ASD and BESD
• Accredited Courses delivered externally at your establishment, aimed at promoting awareness, self reflection, emotional intelligence and behaviour control in young people struggling with their issues
• Termly courses based at the centre designed to work on specific behaviours whilst raising the pupil’s academic learning, ready to be reintegrated with support back into a more mainstream environment
• A free, friendly Support and advice centre for parents, carers and guardians struggling with challenging behaviours and the issues of gaining education for young people
• A mediation service for families and guardians
• Outdoor education packages, equine assisted psychotherapy
• Individual therapy packages including counselling and psychotherapy
• Cognitive Behavioural therapy

The Positive Progress team are a collaboration of professionals from the fields of education, mental health and youth justice. We are passionate about early interventions, providing a holistic package that works with young people of all ages and abilities, on all levels.

Our goal is to make a positive impact on the lives of each young person we come into contact with.

If you would like to find out more about Positive Progress and our range of services, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Using our extensive experience of working with young people with complex emotional, social & behavioural needs, the Positive Progress team have developed a range of accredited courses that can be delivered externally in schools, PRUs, homes, young offender institutions and correctional establishments. More >>

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request more information, we will be happy to help in any way we can. More >>

If you are struggling with  a young person and feel that you need some help or someone to talk to, please get in touch. We offer free impartial advice and help.