Life Transitions

 

Everybody experiences transitions during their life: in early childhood; passing through stages of schooling; into and out of employment; leaving military service; entering retirement and old age. People have to cope with bereavement, the onset of illness or disability and transitions through parenthood; others have to negotiate more unusual transitions, out of prison or mental health. Through relationships and support in the home and at school, through work provision and shaping of responsible attitudes, people can weather these transitions better and acquire the ability to sustain change and access improved life chances.

Aim

To prepare individuals and groups for the krey physical, psychological and environmental change points in life that can affect significantly the development of personal attitudes and behaviour, and promote the ability for them to sustain change and access better life chances.

Areas of Specific Interest

This programme has the following areas of interest:

  • Early Years interventions – supporting families and children
  • School Years Interventions – supporting young people at schooling change points
  • Mental Health – supporting individuals to whole person recovery
  • Interventions for Older People – supporting individuals into retirement, through the loss of a partner and into old age
  • Former Service Personnel – supporting those that leave military service to make a successful transition into civilian life

Priorities

  • Preparing client groups for key transitions to facilitate informed and accessible changes in life circumstances
  • Addressing failure to deal adequately with key transitions, leading to negative outcomes in the short term and potentially in later life
  • Promoting personal resilience, allowing beneficiaries to access life opportunities better, having achieved a key transition successfully

Typical Activities

  • Building parent and baby relationships – physical, mental and social
  • Early years family support work: families struggling to cope with children; support to single parent families
  • Supporting single parents with the skills to raise responsible children
  • Development of social responsibility in children
  • Navigating key change points into and out of education
  • Addressing the needs of former Service personnel in areas of employment, mental health, addiction, criminal justice and homelessness
  • Addressing the well-being needs of mental health sufferes to promote whole person recovery
  • Addressing the advent of disability or long term illness

 

Likely Outcomes

  • Reinforcement of parent-children relationships as the basis for better life opportunities
  • Children grow up as responsible citizens
  • Fewer young people at risk of anti-social behaviour and exclusion from education
  • Facilitation into mainstream life of mental health sufferers
  • Reduction in numbers of former Service personnel in disadvantaged circumstances
  • Increased well-being in old age