
JACK

Programme Worker
I have been working at the SID since January 2022 and have been working with young people for 9+ years in a variety of roles. I came over from the Youth Justice Service where I had the roles of case manager and then reparation officer. Before then I was working in a secondary school as a teaching assistant, cover teacher, alternative provision tutor and behaviour / progress mentor. I also spent a few years working as a family support worker for WSCC. I really enjoy working with young people and trying to give them a platform to succeed no matter what background they come from or what’s going on in their personal lives.
​My passion for working with young people started when I returned from travelling the USA and didn’t want to go back into bog standard office work. I had a goal to make a difference in a career path I chose and following sports coaching in my education this felt like a natural next step. I like to see the positives in everyone. I strongly believe that behaviours are learned, and most young people are a product of their environment whether they choose that or not. Every young person has the right to be heard, listened to, valued, and supported which is what I set out to do across all of my work at the SID.
​Some of my work so far at the SID has included 1-1 mentoring, lead on programmes such as our Ripple Effect Knife Crime workshop, Real Talk workshop and Girls only safe space. I have also organised and ran trips as well as worked through our holiday HAF programmes. I am very much looking forward to continuing to develop myself at the SID which will hopefully allow us to continue to grow as an organisation and keep helping young people across our area.