Kids Inspire & Impetus

The need: Children and young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have, on average, weaker Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) skills at all ages. This can lead to poorer mental health, lower academic attainment, and poorer employment outcomes. There is strong evidence to suggest that SEL interventions can lead to gains in academic performance.

Our cpartner: Kids Inspire provides therapeutic support from trained professionals in a variety of modalities to young people and their families affected by trauma, distress, or negative experiences. The organisation is dedicated to promoting self-awareness, self-resilience, and positive relationship building for young people aged 6-18, helping them to improve mental health and subsequently re-engage in education.

Our impact: We are helping Kids Inspire to refine their impact strategy, including collecting new data to track the social and emotional development and school outcomes of the young people they serve. As they continue to deepen and monitor their impact, we will help to build on their operational foundations for growth and support as they expand into new regions in the South East.

Impetus is supporting Kids Inspire to grow in size and impact to help meet the increasing mental health and social emotional needs of young people. Our creative trauma-informed therapeutic services can help them to recover from adverse childhood experiences so that they can engage fully in educational and social opportunities and go on to lead emotionally healthy, aspirational and fulfilling lives.

Sue Bell OBE, CEO and Clinical Director, Kids Inspire