Welcome to VirtueYouth!
Virtue Youth is a new organisation in its infancy planning to empower young people to identify and develop their full potential. Virtue Youth will do this by enhancing the lives of young people by expanding the learning opportunities available to them, pointing the way to a future full of hope and working together to create that future. The heart of our program will be the provision of outdoor pursuits, team building exercises, group work and mentorship programmes which we will provided in a safe, respectful, and celebratory atmosphere by trained staff.
What is Recovery?
VirtueYouth will aim to assist young people with regard to the mental health ‘recovery’ process. This ‘recovery’ can take a number of forms and is very much situational, but each case can be generally attributed to one of ‘six’ recognised areas:
- 1. The return to a state of wellness (following, for example, an episode of depression).
- 2. Achievement of a personally acceptable quality of life (following, for example, an episode of psychosis).
- 3. A process or period of recovery (following, for example, trauma).
- 4. A process of gaining or restoring something (for example, one’s sobriety).
- 5. An act of obtaining usable resources from apparently unusable sources (for example, in prolonged psychosis where the experience itself has intrinsic personal value).
- 6. To recover optimum quality of life and be satisfied with life in disconnected circumstances (for example, dementia).
How can we achieve “recovery”?
VirtueYouth will strive to assist young people in achieving their own ‘personal recovery’ by recognising and utilising important methods to provide support in this process:
Fostering a person’s skill development:
- Supporting a person to achieve their goals.
- Developing resilience to possible future adversity/stress.
- Being believed in.
- Being listened to and understood.
- Getting explanations for problems/experiences.
- Having the opportunity to rescind responsibility during periods of crisis.
For more information on 'Recovery' in mental health please visit:
www.independentlivingscotland.co.uk/page.cfm/link=124
- VirtueYouth
- 98 Main Street
- Fulford
- York
- YO10 4PS
- info@virtueyouth.co.uk
- 0844 5899998
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