Outreach
Outreach is a youth diversion and early-intervention crime-prevention programme suited to youngsters who have low self-esteem or low personal achievement, are excluded from school, are socially disengaged or who engage in truancy or other behavioural problems. Participants are referred by partner organisations such as schools, social services, the local police or other youth and community groups. Participation is entirely voluntary and the youngsters can leave at any time.
If you are interested in setting up an Outreach project, please contact Colin Charters the National Project Support Officer or the Regional Co-ordinator for your area. Further information can also be found in the Outreach Annual Report 2011-12 available through the Army Cadet Force Association (ACFA).
Outreach gives non-cadets a burst of ACF activities and ethos in order to help them develop self-esteem, build confidence and broaden their perspective on their own potential through a short programme of challenging team-based activities, usually on a military training area and well away from participants' normal environment.
Outreach is delivered by volunteer leaders and senior cadets in the Army Cadet Force and funded through charitable donations to our appeal fund. We work with partner organisations to identify youngsters who are likely to benefit from the programme.
"Outreach has consistently proved its success as an accessible, practical and effective youth diversion programme as well as a crime prevention tool. It can positively encourage and realign young people within our communities around the UK to play a better part in our society. The Project Outreach Team, continues to offer an opportunity and a path to follow, to those young people who feel that society has given up on them, or who have given up on themselves. We within the Outreach team strive for well run progressive projects offering youngsters positively whilst promoting the ACF and its values".
