Benefits of volunteering for looked after young people and care leavers
Some of you may be interested in the following article, which used data that had been generated by a project evaluation conducted jointly by Greater Manchester Centre for Voluntary Organisation, Greater Manchester Youth Network and Manchester Metropolitan University. The data were purposely collected in a way that allowed for more robustness than that typically required by evaluations. As such, the evaluation is a good example of multi-purpose research, which meets the needs and interests of different audiences.
The article at the link below talks about the benefits of structured activities such as volunteering to help with looked after young people’s and care leavers’ identity formation and as such it might be of interest to those of you who are interested in volunteering and its potential benefits.
Suze Cruttwell • January 17, 2017