"Changing Lives and Minds For Better"

 

 

Since 2006, we have worked in conjunction with London Southbank, Greenwich, Kent Medway and East London Universities through their Social Work Youth and Community Development Faculties by providing student study placements. We are committed to these partnerships to ensure that future social, youth and community professionals are equipped to deal with the numerous challenges arising from legislation, culture and lifestyle as they impact and are important young people and their parents..

 

Our Youth Mentors age 7 to 19 are attending top universities including London School of Economics, University College London and Imperial College. Their studies include Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Psychology and a 3rd year PHD student in Mechanical Engineering. Other mentors have made significant progress in turning their lives around after completing our 'Turnaround Project'. This project offers specialist support to change lifestyles from youth offending to becoming meaningfully engaged in academic or apprenticeship career pursuits.

Options 4 Change is a London UK based non-profit company that is affiliated through franchise with the National Black Boys Can Association. We provide personalised solutions for at risk youth - with an emphasis on African-Caribbean boys,whose future and potential is in jeopardy of becoming unrealised due to unresolved conflict occurring in both the educational and legal sphere. Though we provide practical solutions to specific problems brought to our attention, it is our aim to take a more preventative stance by encouraging disengaged youth to address areas in their lives that could manifest into potential problems. We have decided to employ a two-pronged strategy in how we work, not just with young people but with their parents and our proactive approach fuels outreach programmes as well as the coaching and mentoring services we provide in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Croydon and Wandsworth. Though we appreciate the importance in raising awareness of the effects of gun and knife crime, we believe that there are not enough outlets that focus on positive aspirations and successes of young people as opposed to negative reverberations.

 

 

 

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