Young Life are an international organization who reach out to High School students around the world. One of their Youth Workers, Dan is in school every Thursday to mentor Year 11 students in the morning and build relationships and support others at lunchtime through his football and lunchtime club.

The Achieve Programme helps our Key Stage 4 students to boost their confidence, learn new skills and work with their friends on a group project. The Programme is completely flexible, and students will study the following projects:

• Delivering a community project and making a real difference in your local area
• Learning all sorts of new skills to help with meeting new people and building your confidence.
• Taking on a business challenge to put your entrepreneurial skills to the test.
• Improving your knowledge and ability to look after yourself and live a healthy life.
• Top tips to help you write the perfect CV and get ahead in your career.

East Belfast Alternatives is a local restorative justice agency who offer a wide range of support in the local community. At Key Stage 3, Barry Easton, works with our junior school pupils on the DARE Project to encourage and motivate our students to have high aspirations.

EBA have been successfully implementing a Peer Mentoring Programme with students in Key Stage 4 and 5.  Furthermore, EBA also supports pupils in Key Stage 3, as part of our Life Skills curriculum.

Natalie Phillips, youth worker at Willowfield Parish Church, helps coordinate a number of local churches coming into Breda Academy through detached work on a Tuesday lunchtime and running the Scripture Union on a Thursday lunchtime. The Churches involved are Willowfield Church, Breda Church of Ireland, Newtownbreda Baptist and McCraken Memorial, with Scripture Union representatives supporting Breda staff at SU.

HOPE is the school counselling service which offers our pupils additional support through weekly counselling sessions. Pupils can self-refer or be referred by their teacher or parent for help to deal with any emotional and behavioural difficulties to help make more informed choices or decisions.

Breda Academy has a full-time youth worker assigned to the school. Alan Bell will play a key role in promoting student wellbeing, building positive relationships, and helping young people build the skills and confidence they need to succeed in and out of school.