MTC Applications & Benefits

MTC Applications & Benefits:
10 Steps to Combating Youth Offending, Substance Abuse, Truancy and Exclusion

MTC Activities greatly assist personal and group functioning and development, which in turn improves the quality of group discussions about offending, substance abuse, truancy, exclusion, family problems, homelessness and many other issues facing young people today.

1. MTC Activities provide many more opportunities for positive assessment, and often surprise individuals about their own and others capabilities and good nature. This can result in reversing the 'labeling' effect: damaging labels such as 'troublemaker' get replaced by more optimistic ones, which in turn builds self-esteem.

2. Experiences of success in activities also help to greatly develop self-esteem. This directly affects negative behaviour in which low self-esteem is almost always a contributory factor.

3. The reviewing of positive experiences in activities helps to establish reviewing itself as a positive experience. Reviewing skills are then applied to offending issues so that significant changes in behaviour can be achieved.

4. The reviewing of negative experiences which arise during activities also provides useful insights into difficulties that are related to offending and other negative and/or destructive behaviour.

5. Activities can be used as part of a physical education programme, whilst also offering numerous development opportunities for enhancing personal and social skills, leading to more positive and constructive behaviour.

6. Activities can be set up as skills training exercises. Improved skills in, for example, decision-making, problem-solving, planning, assertiveness, or self-control can help reverse the effect of current areas of concern.

7. Choosing and introducing activities in ways that highlight connections with negative situations before doing the activity creates fresh insights so that alternative courses of action and possible solutions can be found.

8. Doing activities with other youth and community groups, support agencies and/or authority figures, can change attitudes all round. This can help to reduce offending and negative behaviour and helps to avert or defuse any future confrontations.

9. MTC Activities can help to develop better relationships between adults and young people, as well as being used as an enjoyable, engaging and positive tool for team development amongst staff and co-workers.

10. Taking part in MTC activities can be linked to easing the transition during any major life changes – leaving school to start work/further education, moving from home to living alone, etc.

The problems and opportunities faced by marginalised groups of young people themselves provide the template for the development of MTC programmes that we can train you to deliver and effectively utilise.

Culturally attuned, local opportunities for personal, group and community development emerge as a result of the MTC personalised consultancy process on the basis of what engages effectively in each specific situation. This then provides a sound platform for the establishment of broader links and opportunities into other development areas and local youth and community organisations.

Mobile Team Challenge Ltd
84 Richmond Wood Road, Queens Park,
Bournemouth, Dorset. BH8 9DJ, UK.
Tel: 0870 165 7314
Fax: 0870 165 7324
Email: info@mtceurope.co.uk