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Grounded
Overview
Boundary pusher, risk-taker, adrenaline junky and leader?
Grounded is a program for young people who are disengaged or at risk of being disengaged. Grounded provides an opportunity for participants to explore what they want from life and set meaningful goals. This program creates a space where young people can express themselves honestly, unfiltered and without judgment.
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Key Details
- For Ages 13 - 17 years
- Duration 4 Hours
- Cost $0
Grounded is available for school groups of up to 8 students from a school per term at no cost. Parents and guardians can nominate their young person to attend. Young people can also nominate themselves!
Please get in touch if you/your young person is interested in attending.
Grounded Timetable
- When Term 1, 2025
- Where TBC
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Dates
Thursday 20 March.
10:00am -2:00pm.
A Grounded Experience
Jana's Story
My first Reach experience was with Grounded. The way I’d explain it is it’s for young people who don’t quite fit the standards or expectations that school places on them. They think differently, they perceive things differently – I guess it’s just about getting a bunch of people together who have been placed in a box and told they’re disengaged, or told they’re not good enough for school and that they’re not going to do well. To this day, Grounded shows them differently, just like it showed me. I now work as a Facilitator at Reach, running programs in schools and the community.
Jana
Our Impact
We measure the impact our workshops have
We’ve been doing this work for over two decades now and have worked with close to 900,000 young people. We measure the impact of every workshop we run through evaluations – here are just a few stats from 2016.
80%
of participants believed our workshops helped them have more confidence in themselves.
84%
of participants said they felt empowered to make more positive choices in their lives following a workshop.
90%
of young people we worked with would recommend our workshops to their mates.