Introducing Edge Transitions Programme
What is the Edge Transitions Programme?
Edge Transitions Programme offers a post-school vocational 2-year course for ASN school leavers in Scotland aged 18, whose needs can’t be met in a traditional day centre or mainstream college. It is our mission to motivate change, develop independence and support transition to adulthood in a practical and supportive life-skills programme.
Incorporating the PATH framework and highly individualised person-centred planning, Edge will provide participants with a programme like no other. The course incorporates a combination of outdoor sports, employability, social skills, travel training and independent living skills. It will deliver these young people opportunities to develop their real life independence while supporting them to mature in the world around them.
We have been talking about transitions with clients, families, and industry experts, including social workers, teachers and transition organisations for years. Edge Transitions Programme is our response to a clear gap in post-school provision and positive destinations.
Edge Transitions Programme is a brand new, specialist, and one-of-a-kind opportunity for young, Scottish, ASN school leavers who need a more holistic, vocational approach to independent living skills.
Our Core Aims & Outcomes
SHANARRI Wellbeing Outcomes frame the course’s outcomes:
Safe: Young people improve resilience, can look after themselves, and know how to ask others for help when they need it.
Healthy: Making healthy choices around food and attending to activities of daily living.
Achieving: Having a role in the community, with access to opportunities to maximise potential.
Nurtured: Becoming an independent adult who can attend to their own needs, and can seek help from their support systems.
Active: Developing new skills and increasing confidence through physical activity in the outdoors, wilderness and water.
Respected: Young adults will feel more self-confident with improved self-awareness, self-identity and feelings of belonging.
Responsible: They become an equal partner in their own life-planning, and understand appropriate behaviour and the impact it can have on others to assess and manage risk
Included: Developing a peer group, ‘finding their tribe’, being listened to and valued.
Cost: To reduce costs by increasing resilience and independence. Short-term cost vs. long-term support services
The Edge Transitions model focuses on bespoke support planning. Each young person will embark upon an individualised supported pathway, in a peer-group setting. All young people will focus on independence in whatever way is suitable for them.
Who is eligible to apply?
Participants must be:
S6 2022 & 2023 ASN school leavers
Able to communicate verbally
Comfortable with outdoor activities such as surfing & skiing
Able to understand and follow safety instructions
Able to attend to their own personal care (including with prompting)
Able to work in a group on a minimum 4:1 ratio
Able to manage apps and communicate via a mobile phone
Able to be involved in their own plan and want to plan their individual future
Able to travel to and from Edge premises in Musselburgh, Monday to Friday
Budget managed through the Social Work department
Delivery
Edge Group Scotland is offering a fully supported, day-centre, vocational-style programme for ASN school leavers in Edinburgh and the Lothians, aged 18 years. Our day courses will run in a dedicated classroom space at the Fisherrow Centre in Musselburgh.
The 2-year programme is open for registration for school leavers from the 2022 and 2023 years. The course is full-time: 35 hours per week, over 42 weeks each year. Places are limited to 12 for the Year 1 intake in July 2023. The programme will be based in Musselburgh and will incorporate independent living skills and multiple outdoor and indoor sports.
2023/24 Example Timetable
2023/24 Fees
Our staffing support will be a 4:1 ratio with a dedicated facilitator for each young person.
The programme price includes staffing support, specialist external providers, all programme activities and equipment, independent living planning, personal cookware and travel while on the programme.
Please contact us directly for programme fee information
** Payment due 8 May 2023 This payment secures a place on the course.
Costs are not inclusive of a weekly food budget, which must be provided by participants or their families themselves. This will be a nominal amount of between £5-£10 weekly to purchase fresh food for cooking sessions.
Optional Extras *All optional extras can be paid at the time of booking
Each year there are a wide variety of residential respite breaks and trips available via our dedicated Edge Adventures department. These trips are not compulsory and costs vary, but we can help manage a yearly budget to ensure Edge Transitions Programme participants receive pre-release information.
Edge Adventures and its partners also offer dedicated clubs, days out and group respite trips
Edge Disability SUP school runs intensive programmes and Epic Days Out throughout the holiday breaks if you just cannot get enough SUP.
All of our optional extras are open to everyone 18-35 yo across Scotland and the UK and are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
All referrals must be directed through social work
Book soon to avoid disappointment. We are unable to take more than our maximum of 12 people in the first year.
All referrals will be directed to our Project Coordinator, Samantha Roberts
More information can be found here: Edge Transitions Programme