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News stories from February 2012

Xpand your confidence before heading down the route of apprenticeships or courses....

14th Feb 2012

The former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband is warning that youth unemployment will cost the government billions of pounds if it is not tackled now. Part of a report by the Commission on Youth Unemployment adds that the situation has reached "emergency point".

The Xpand project is designed for young people 14-19 who maybe at risk of exclusion and who are NEET. They may need also extra guidance with directing them on the right career path before making the choice of which apprenticeship, course or career. The project which is run in partnership with Warrington Collegiate is a way young people can experience different courses which may help inform their career options and with support from The Relationship Centre offering emotional guidance, giving them the life skills to make the next step into an apprenticeship, job or further education course.

If you are interested in the Xpand project, please contact us at The Relationship Centre on 01925 246910.

Talk dont Walk – a life changing project....

14th Feb 2012

Talk Don’t Walk’s success over the past 8 years has been measured not just in financial savings but more importantly in the lasting changes it has brought to the young people, their families and the Warrington community. The project has demonstrated how families can achieve intergenerational change as well as young people becoming more aware of the dangers of running away and seeking positive alternative responses to managing their situation.

As we approach the end of the Talk Dont Walk project in March 2012, we are reflecting on all the support and intervention which has been offered to young people and their families across Warrington. The project offers a brief intervention with the young person including personal safety and communication sessions which can also include parents and young people attending family mediation, The Talk Dont Walk project has given positive hope for families who may have fallen apart, without the intervention of Talk dont Walk.

Since 2004, every year we have directly helped over 200 young people and their families with relationship and personal problems which have caused the young person to run away from the family home and offer strategies and coping mechanisms to help them rebuild their relationships for the future.

We encourage the young people to talk about their problems with loved ones and to get support in doing this with somebody independent they can trust. Together with families themselves, we have reconnected and rebuilt relationships and family life.

Talk dont Walk has ensured that these young people werent alone and were given the opportunity to share their problems, getting the help and support they needed, the first step to a brighter, safer future.

Come and share the love this February at Halton Women's Centre!

7th Feb 2012

Valentine’s Day is a reminder that sometimes, it is perfectly alright to have a glass of wine in a bubble-bath, to eat a few perfect morsels of chocolate, and to celebrate love and friendship!

St. Valentine, for whom this holiday is of course named, was an actual historical figure. He was a Roman physician who was also a Christian priest during the days of the early church.
There are actually a couple versions of the Valentine’s Day story. One version, has it that Valentine was so loved by the children of the town that they would constantly write him notes speaking of their affection-hence the origin of exchanging valentines.
In the other version of the story, Valentine is working to heal a blind boy and is arrested by Roman soldiers for his work as an “undercover priest”. Valentine is shortly thereafter sentenced to die. And yet before he is taken off to be executed, he takes the time to write to the little blind boy a note explaining to him Jesus' love, enclosing a small treat. According to this story, when the boy eats the treat his eyesight is miraculously restored, and he is able to see well enough to read Valentine's note-which is, of course, at the exact same moment that Valentine is executed.

So be kind to someone you love and celebrate that relationship whether it be family or friends and come spend some time with Halton Women’s Centre during Valentines Week!!!