The Reach Out Project is a crime prevention project funded by the Single Regeneration Budget (SRB). The project is aimed at vulnerable young people at risk of becoming involved in crime or disengaged from their school or community.

Reach Out engages young people in their penultimate year of compulsory education (year 11) and offers a programme of personal development and extended work experience, with the additional
support of a mentor within the workplace.

The aim of the Reach Out Project is to assist the regeneration of West Yorkshire by reducing youth crime.

The methodology for this evaluation is a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, with a desk review of a number of relevant national and regional strategies to give the project strategic context. A series of questionnaires were used to obtain information from some of the main stakeholders.

The projects monitoring information shows that the project has exceeded, met or is likely to meet, (when the final information becomes available) all of its key targets and has built up a significant network of contacts and wealth of good practice experience.

The closure of the project due to a lack of continued funding means that although some of this experience will be lost, other Partnerships and organisations with similar approaches i.e. that of Connexions, will have the benefit of employing some of the Reach Out project workers and building on the contacts and networks already established.

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