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Our Practice Framework is Evidenced and Flexible

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Our staff are 4 year trained adventure-based youth workers.
Their expertise is honed by routine weekly cpd. 
Being strengths and system-focused, YFO staff get students engaged outside and co-regulate so they can then engage inside the classroom.

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YFO is Family-Focused

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We aim for change in the family and in the systems that surround students. Visiting students homes is a standard practice.

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Data Driven

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Routine data collection including student feedback, and covers a range of qualitative and quantative data to build a rich profile of each student. Our reports and advice are data driven and designed to inform the wider system that surrounds the student.

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YFO Works within schools

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Schools may consider: an in-school worker, 1:1 contacts, group work, in school groups, home visits and staff training Our aim is to improve school outcomes, not to sell a specific program.

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Outcomes

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Integrate body, brain and mind - Scaffold from strengths through problems.

‘Bottom-up’ therapeutic focus - connects students with their executive functioning.

Outdoor activity regulates the body (HPA), connects relationships (limbic) and helps a student return to classroom ready to learn (cortex).