New Programme alert! We have an exciting new programme starting this week called Make Good & Listen. PIE and Make Good (our friend Jen Samani) have partnered up to deliver this programme from October to January and have received the GMCA Shaping Care Fund to deliver this programme in Stockport. The Department of Education are funding GMCA as a Pathfinder to design and deliver Greater Manchester's Regional Care Cooperative. Grants have been given to support Greater Manchester based VCSE organisations engaged with Cared for Children and Care Experienced Young People to give voice to their needs and wants from the care system.
We are working with a group of care experienced young people (young people in foster care, young people in residential care homes and care leavers) aged 11-25. For this project it will be a space where young people can come along and complete creative activities and creatively share their views and experience of the care service. Young people will be able to connect with other young people in similar situations. There's lots of creative activities to get involved in e.g. art, making Christmas gifts and decorations, exploring clay work, banner making, photography, videography and many more! This is an opportunity for young people to become leaders in a youth voice and contribute to the future development of care services and for young people to be at the centre of shaping the Regional Care Cooperative.
We have just had our first Make Good & Listen session and it went great! We had a fantastic group of young people come to the session and we started by making some DIY cosy autumnal jumpers, a tik tok trend that one of the young people had seen and it was great! As this was the first session, we just introduced what this project is and started a conversation about what topics we would like to cover in these sessions. Some of the young people expressed their opinions about the care system and what they have experienced. This gave us some great topics to discuss in further sessions and ideas of craft activities we can do to express the young people's voice!
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