Educational Learning Support Hub (ELSH)

This project involves access to training and skills Coach Club sessions within a local and safe community environment as an alternative to mainstream support services where take up of service provision is low. The programme offers employability training and access to good quality careers guidance; and Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) which supports social inclusion via other pathways e.g. employment, welfare, and life skills.

ELSH already has a proven and successful track record of working with ethnic minority groups, especially women and families escaping violence and abuse. This employability programme will work with vulnerable young people aged 16-25 to reduce anti-social behaviour and crime, by introducing training as an intervention which will effectively give skills which can progress young people into work.

This includes young people escaping violence at home or in peer situations, and supports young people to attain further educational and career aspirations which contribute towards their communities and society as a whole. ELSH is registered with the Office of the Immigration Services Commission to provide IAG services to vulnerable young people as part of working with children and families.

ELSH will be working in partnership with various professional organisations and community workers for referrals to the Coach Club employability sessions. They will also engage support with existing young people already involved with the service.

Young people who do not access mainstream wellbeing and skills development services are already engaging with ELSH, and their aim is to provide employability sessions to combat the effects of COVID and lack of skills training young people are currently experiencing, with Coach Clubs providing accredited CPD qualifications which are suited to the employment market.