Creative Progression

[Newcastle] 2009 onwards

A Newcastle City Council's Working Neighbourhood's funded project for homeless (or at risk of homelessness) adults across the City with chronic mental health problems. Working in partnership with Crisis Skylight, Tyneside Cyrenians, Newcastle Anti-Social Behaviour Co-ordination Unit and Newcastle Mental Health, we have developed a two-year programme of high quality and flexible creative activities that allow people to explore what progression means to them and to help them to take some steps along their journey.

The core aims are to:

• enable homeless adults explore what progression means for them in a creative way, providing a safe environment that will allow them to challenge and disrupt limiting personal and collective identities;
• engage homeless adults who might otherwise be wary of getting involved in learning or training due to previous poor experiences or lack of confidence;
• help participants develop new skills and interests;
• assist participants to progress onto further creative activity by enabling them to produce individual portfolios of work.