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Tools Vision Journal Wheel of Life Young people’s characteristics include a combination of the following: Are not in education or have been thrown out of school or college Have contact with drugs and may be a drug abuser Are known to the police and may have been picked up and questioned. Are prolific offenders Have family issues Spend periods of rough sleeping or “sofa surfing” Come from broken homes Have had periods “in state care” Experienced failure at sometime in their lives, either, educationally or socially. These are normally young people who have no personal vision or direction in life and have no positive role models Vision Journals have been developed to create a means for candidates to think beyond “here and now” and identify things/aims they would like to achieve in the future. To use this future vision as a means to create a SMART action plan, consider routes to achieve these aims and attract to them the results they “have a vision for”!!! The Vision Journal is a simple tool that should be used at the start of a programme to help candidates create aims to work towards. It helps to create a “vision” for the candidate to work towards and develops their motivation. It helps the practitioner understand the desires of the candidate. Method development divided into the following steps: Creation of Vision Journal Vision Journal is discussed with the practitioner and verbalised Vision Journal is referred to on a regular basis Outcome success is celebrated A photo album What is aspired to Candidate must be encouraged by staff team to take the Vision Journal “seriously” and consider it a tool to achieve their aims. Candidates should have an environment where they are comfortable to show what is in their Vision Journal and why it is important to them Items in the Vision Journal should have quantifiable timeframes and outcomes, i.e achieve this by this time and I will know I have achieved it by seeing “this outcome” Candidates success in achieving should be celebrated An interactive tool developed by Cementafuture to help explore candidate’s needs. The Cementafuture Wheel of Life looks at: Attitudinal skills Life skills Transferable skills Personal Growth The wheel of life consists of 25 questions, which can either be answered online or on paper, then added to the online programme. MAKING A DIFFERENCE Attitudinal skills Life skills Transferable skills Personal growth Robert Morrall Innovations Manager, Cementafuture Ltd [email protected] Kirsty Patterson Operations Manager, Cementafuture Ltd [email protected] Tel: 0844 504 7947 Fax: 0844 504 7948 www.cementafuture.org www.help-less.net www.sapientree.net www.pictora.org