The provision of guidance, counselling and psychological services for young people at risk of social exclusion has been signposted in the past five years as a necessary support to assist them to participate in social and economic citizenship roles. NCGE has a role in the support and development of guidance in YOUTHREACH and similar programmes.

The NCGE led Community Based Guidance Assistance (CBGA) Project focused on training significant adults in the community in non-formal guidance skills, to act as agents in engaging 'hard to reach' young people in the community in the guidance process
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Based on the learning from the CBGA project, NCGE successfully applied for YOUTHSTART funding for the 'Training Youthreach Staff in Non-formal Guidance Skills' project. The project aimed to provide staff working in YOUTHREACH with 'Frontline' guidance skills, so that they too could act as non-formal agents in the engaging young people in the guidance process. As part of the Youthstart project, extensive research into the provision of guidance and support for early school leavers and young people at risk was carried out resulting in two research reports and a database of guidance and support services.
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