turning young lives around

This project has helped my daughter mix with other children. She is still shy and anxious, but the experience has helped build her confidence.

The highlight of my summer was feeling proud of myself for going on the trips and using my voice to ask new adults for help and make friends. I feel much more confident for secondary school and how to approach adults if I need to.

If it wasn't for One-Eighty I truly believe he still wouldn't be attending school. His future is now bright.

Lots of people have been using the worry box and we like checking this during break times. It helps people to feel more comfortable talking about their feelings and making it more normal.

Make Me Smile helped me learn more about worries, which I needed, as I have been through a lot with the loss of my sister recently.”

It teaches you about mental health. It’s important to share it around so that others can understand it too.

I learnt not to care what others think about me, I am enough

I’ve learnt not to bottle up my emotions and I’ve liked being able to talk about how I feel.

I used the hand breathing when I felt nervous and it helped me to feel calmer.

My parents are getting a divorce, Kick Start has been the only thing to make me feel happy and want to go to school.

I don’t know where we would have turned without One-Eighty, there is no alternative, no other options, there would have been no support.

One-Eighty were able to make progress with a student that had not been in education for three years. They were able to make progress and hand over the student in a more positive position than when they started.