SPLASH Programme
Positive Activities Scheme

The Young Mentors during training

In June 2002, the Consultancy was commissioned by Liverpool City Council to train young people aged between 16-18 from the city, who were engaged to work with children on the Summer SPLASH Programme, funded by the Childrens Fund, running over the six week summer holiday.

The remit of the Young Mentors is to help children in their play, to help them explore their skills and strengths and to highlight the importance of supporting others during the SPLASH programme.

Following the intensive 3 day training course by the Consultancy - The Solution Focused Young Mentoring Programme, the Young Mentors, work with the children and are supported by Liverpool City Council staff.

The Young Mentors have been trained to elicit the strengths and possibilities of the children and to encourage them to use these resources to get the best from the Programme of events. Each Mentor works on a 1:1 basis as well as in group activities.

The aims of the Young Mentoring Programme is that both the children and the Young Mentors will have gained an added insight to their strengths as individuals and have a renewed recognition of the importance of responsibility towards themselves and others. The Young Mentors received weekly evening support meetings facilitated by Eileen Murphy Consultants and continued study material.

To partner the work that the Young Mentors are doing with the children, Liverpool City Council commissioned the Consultancy to run their Parenting the Teenager and Parenting the 21st Century Child Programmes with the parents of some of the children attending the SPLASH programme.

The Young Mentors on the close of training, receiving their Solution Focused Young Mentor Certificates and their Official Mentor T-Shirts from the Leader of Liverpool City Council and Eileen Murphy