The need: Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are twice as likely as their better-off peers to be not of education, employment, or training (NEET). Gender and experience of care compound this disadvantage, with care leavers three times more likely to be NEET.
Our portfolio partner: Sister System provides specialist early-intervention support to care-affected young women aged 13-24 in order to help them sustain positive relationships and mental wellbeing and progress into education, training, and employment.
Our impact: Sister System runs a unique programme targeted at the young people most in need. We are helping them to design, deliver, and evaluate their work for maximum impact and build out the organisational foundations to sustain it.
Our collaboration with Impetus not only empowers us to build a sustainable, scalable organisation, but is also essential in demonstrating our impact, refining its measurement and collaborating with Impetus’ extensive network, as Sister System goes on our journey to empower the lives of the thousands of care‐affected girls across the UK.
Okela Douglas, CEO, Sister System
