About us
New Beginnings North (NBN) provides neurodivergent young people with a dedicated, therapeutic intervention programme designed to develop confidence, self-esteem, resilience, and emotional literacy. Our trauma-informed and neurodiversity committed mentors provide 1:1 sessions in a positive, safe, nurturing, and supportive manner to help children and young people positively re-engage with education, employment, and training.
Impact, Outcomes and Key Performance Indicators
New Beginnings North utilises the Youth Impact’s suite of measurement tools to measure outcomes, quality assure our provision, and capture the voice of child/young person regarding their levels of engagement, interest and challenge, and their feelings of happiness, safety, belonging and being valued. Additionally, we make use of Do IT Profiler, a Neurodiversity screening tool, which helps everyone to understand the child/young person’s neurodevelopmental needs, strengths, and challenges, the current state of their mental health and wellbeing, and finally, how prepared they are for their next steps which includes transitioning to adulthood.
How to access?
Our mentoring service is delivered in person.
How we deliver
We mentor young people either one or two hours per week. If we mentor a young person for two hours per week the session(s) can be split into two one-hour sessions or be delivered as a single two-hour session. The single two-hour session comprises of activities such as a walk, bike ride, a trip to a café, visit to a school/college, or even a meeting with a Careers Adviser followed by a personal development session working through activities in the young person’s Mentoring Portfolio; NBN’s mentoring portfolios have been co-produced with young people for young people.
How we report attendance
Attendance is reported, via email after each session, to the key person identified in the referral form.
Our key contacts
- Day to day: Leanne Kane (Senior Support Officer) - support@newbeginningsnorth.org
- Safeguarding: Joanne Vance (DSL) - jvance@newbeginningsnorth.org