MCR Pathways and Impetus
The need: Young people in mainstream secondary schools who have experience of the care system or face other challenges like special educational needs, living in poverty, or having suffered parental bereavement, often find it harder to engage in education than their peers.
Our portfolio partner: MCR Pathways works with young people aged 10-18, supporting them from the crucial transition from the last year of primary school into secondary school to the end of college. They provide trained, volunteer mentors who are carefully matched to young people. By providing a trusted adult relationship for these young people, MCR works to improve their life chances and ultimately achieve equality of educational outcomes and career opportunities.
Our impact: Impetus is helping MCR Pathways to expand their externally evidenced programme from Scotland into England and replicate their impact on the triple outcomes of keeping students in school, improving attainment, and increasing EET (education, employment, or training) rates.
Our partnership with Impetus is ever-evolving and multi-dimensional. Together we create opportunities for sharing expertise, developing our skills, strengthening our impact, and growing our reach. Each and every incredible young person MCR Pathways empowers through personalised relationship-based mentoring is enabled by shared vision and values with invaluable stakeholders like Impetus.
Sharon McIntyre, CEO, MCR Pathways
