Resilient Futures

Coaching and Mentoring for Young People

We recognise the growing importance of improving mental health for young people and developing their resilience and wellbeing through coaching, mentoring, and therapeutic interventions.

Our services were born out of the need to support young people struggling with their mental health.

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What is it

We deliver professional mentoring and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to young people. Our mentor’s support:

  • Primary, secondary and post-16 students.

  • Care leavers.

  • Young people who are not in education, employment, or training (NEET), or at risk of becoming NEET.

Our services are available across England, and we currently provide this service in 16 London boroughs, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. Support can be face-to-face or online, through one-to-one sessions or group activities. We tailor our support to each young person’s needs.

Our wellbeing and resilience mentoring has two tiers:

  • Tier one – Mentoring with qualified mentors.
  • Tier two – Cognitive Behavioural Mentoring (CBM).

Starting with mentoring, we offer CBM if a young person needs more support. We adapt how we deliver our services to suit young people.

A proven path to stronger mental health and brighter futures

An independent external evaluation conducted by University of Northampton Institute for Social Innovation and Impact January 2024 found that:

Support through CBM has a substantial positive impact on the mental health of people. The ability to have discussions about mental health with mentors and other staff played a crucial role in the impact for people on the programme.

The results showed an improvement in people’s mental health and wellbeing over the course of the programme.

It is examples like these that force us to act in support of young people, to build their resilience to improve their futures.

How Resilient Futures has helped young people succeed

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Did you know?

1 in 3 mental health problems in adulthood are directly connected to an adverse childhood experience (ACE) Kessler, R. (2010) 'Childhood adversities and adult psychopathology in the WHO World Mental Health Surveys' British Journal of Psychiatry 197(5): 378-385
1 in 6 Children aged 5 to 16 were identified as having a probable mental health problem in July 2020 NHS digital survey 2021: 'Mental Health of Children and Young People in England 2021.

What the people we have supported say about us

“CBT was good for me. I got to practice and be more aware of different social situations and scenarios. I also became aware of 'overthinking' and how it can spiral. I learnt a lot of methods to challenge thoughts and to apply the methods in situations and give my therapist feedback of how it went.”
Spark Change Participant
“I attend multiple sessions of CBM which involved one on one talking to a mentor in which I was given various tools to adapt and use in everyday situations to enable me to confront and change my behaviour and feelings towards different situations. These tools have been extremely useful in processing past trauma and current events including providing me with the ability to openly communicate with my parents which I have struggled with.”
Spark Change participant
"It has helped me with more confidence to talk about things. It made me think about things going on in my mind differently.”
Adapt Belong Achieve participant
"Don’t give up, this is the best thing that has happened to me, I have weekly plans to support my independent living- I now have a secure tenancy- I am planning to continue to complete my college course and future plans to attend university and maybe live in Birmingham or London”
Staying Close participant, Gloucestershire

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