:: Our Services ::
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:: Independent Living Skills
We provide semi-supported housing to vulnerable and socially excluded 16-18 year olds including care leavers, young offenders and unaccompanied minors.
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:: Urban Survival Package
A course for 16+ year olds that offers practical common sense solutions to the complex issues facing many at-risk young people today, to help them cope with becoming independent.
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:: Semi-Independent Living
Teaching young people step by step to live and support themselves independently. A process that ensures they don't fall into the vicious circle of poverty, drugs or crime, but instead achieve success.
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:: Self Development
Blue River supports young people to develop key skills in the areas of self-awareness, communication, decision-making, teamwork, problems solving and assertiveness. These skills will contribute to service users' academic attainment and future employability.
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:: Clean Brake Environmental Project
A youth-led environmental project that will support the local community to live healthier lifestyles, rejuvenate a local wildlife site and reduce fuel emissions
Welcome to Blue River Support Services
Read Blue River's New OFSTED Report
Download Academy Referral Form
Read our January 2012 Newsletter
The Clean Brake project has been awarded the London 2012 Inspire Mark!
Blue River Support Services supports vulnerable and disadvantaged young people aged 14 to 25 into education, training and employment. Our service users include care leavers, newly arrived unaccompanied minors and young ex-offenders, all who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
Blue River concentrates on the prevention of problems and early intervention, rather than reacting to problems as they occur. Blue River is driven by key needs in the local community. Youth unemployment in Sparkbrook, Birmingham is at 24%, double the national average. Sparkbrook is also among the 7% most deprived wards in the UK, which results in poor outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Blue River’s projects are proven to reduce youth unemployment and increase youth employability in Birmingham, through equipping young people with key skills and competencies.
Blue River’s work in the past six months was recently calculated to provide over £400,000 of social value for disadvantaged young people in the community.
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