Business Leaders inspire kids on the GDPA programme

9 years ago

Iconic Personalities will be sharing their personal and professional journeys with young people who are on the GDPA Programme.

Panel

Daniel Langton -Microsoft

Griselda Togobo -Forward Ladies

Lee-j Walker The Business Desk

Paul Schofield The Cabinet Office

Chaired by Sharon Jandu, Trustee of GDPA

Date: 13 February 2015

Time: 13:30 – 15:00

Venue: Enterprise Centre, Ray St, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire HD1 6BL

Young people will share their own experiences with the panel and can also ask questions. This will be an opportunity for Iconic personalities to interact with the Youth to gain an insight into their world.

The young people will be inspired by the Journeys of the speakers and they will be able to understand how they became successful. The objective is to inspire the young people to show them how following the right path will ensure they reach their goals.

Global Diversity Positive Action is a dynamic positive mechanism that will empower young people. Our programme targets young people before they make the world of crime a career path.

GDPA offers a bespoke targeted programme that combines mental and practical solutions.

GDPA influences, sustains and changes communities by empowering the local community to make changes and become self-sustaining.

Background

We are living through challenging times, in an era where unemployment rates are rising. Crime rates are rising as the number of young people offending and reoffending has increased.

Youth unemployment - those aged between 16 and 24 - was 974,000, or 20.8%. That is up from 957,000, or 20.5%, in the three months to November 2012. (Source Office for National Statistics)

Almost three-quarters of young offenders re-offended within a year of leaving custody Adrian Jenkins (February 2013) (Burton Mail)

Young people from underprivileged backgrounds find it harder to find employment due to lack of education and positive role models. Often the young person finds themselves with no prospects and no one to guide them towards the right path.

Due to the changing socio economic times young people are left with no real prospects and are drawn towards a life of crime. The individual is in an environment in which many people have already turned to crime.

About Global Diversity Positive Action

About GDPA OUR PHILOSOPHY Our philosophy at GDPA is to intervene at an early level and help the individual to make lasting life changes. WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT THE GLOBAL DIVERSITY POSITIVE ACTION PROGRAMME? The GDPA Programme strives to look at the underlying issues that young people have to contend with. It looks at changing the individual mind- set through positive thought and then looks at practical tools to make the individual more employable through enhanced CV, interview techniques and employability, talks from inspirational business people, iconic businesses. The GDPA programme also uses the principles of Raja Yoga which incorporates positive thinking, motivational strategies and changing behavioural patterns One the key factors of the GDPA programme is that it is self-contained programme that can links into national curriculum with the key outcomes that the schools need to deliver. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF GDPA · To listen to our service user’s and provide positive solutions · Provide relevant information · Empower individuals with the tools to make life changing decisions · Provide mentors that will provide positive role models · We aim to be an organisation that adds value to all our partners · We can engage with organisations at every level We are living through challenging times, in an era where unemployment rates are rising. Crime rates are rising as the number of young people offending and re-offending has increased. Youth unemployment - those aged between 16 and 24 - was 974,000, or 20.8%. That is up from 957,000, or 20.5%, in the three months to November 2012. (Source Office for National Statistics) Almost three-quarters of young offenders re-offended within a year of leaving custody Adrian Jenkins (February 2013) (Burton Mail) Young people from underprivileged backgrounds find it harder to find employment due to lack of education and positive role models. Often the young person finds themselves with no prospects and no one to guide them towards the right path. Due to the changing socio economic times young people are left with no real prospects and are drawn towards a life of crime. The individual is in an environment in which many people have already turned to crime