Who We Work With

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”

John Dewey

For innovative leaders across schools, colleges, youth justice services and local authorities who want better outcomes for the children and young people they're responsible for.

Evolve Health Mentors support children and young people to recover from trauma — improving outcomes wherever they’re learning, growing, or finding their way back on track.

Schools, colleges and the services that support children and young people all carry a complex and developing set of roles; some formally assigned and others more informally awarded.

Society includes children and young people of widely varying needs and experiences. Some thrive from day one. Others face adversity early in life that creates barriers to learning and life. Evolve addresses this trauma so that all children and young people are able to join their peers at the start line and access the opportunities in front of them.

Engaged children and young people lead to positive environments that are conducive to learning and development. Engaged settings lead to an improved climate that can be enjoyed by all.

Staff are able to focus on the positive aspects of their role, free of stress, where their potential may now be realised. With improved staff wellbeing, retention and performance, our partners are able to focus more of their resources on core services. This leads to happier, healthier communities with the freedom to breathe.

Our interest areas

Early intervention across every setting

Health Mentors delivering trusted-adult support wherever children and young people need it most.

Local authorities & ICBs

Experts at Hand

An immediately deployable workforce of trained mentors and inclusion specialists — the capacity layer that extends every hour of specialist time and delivers the SEND reforms in mainstream schools.

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Youth justice services

Preventing the First Offence

Data-driven identification and school-based mentoring for children at risk of entering the justice system — a strategic partner to Youth Justice Services, working upstream of Turnaround.

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Schools

Inclusion and Belonging

Keeping children with additional needs engaged, included and learning alongside their peers — reducing suspensions, exclusions and costly moves to specialist provision.

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FE colleges

Retention and NEET Prevention

Supporting 16 to 18 year olds through the transition into college and keeping them in education, employment or training when engagement starts to slip.

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“The clear strength for us was supporting transition. The transition from primary to secondary can be really challenging. Having someone who added that capacity, who had been well trained and was able to impact on the lives of a small case load of students which led to those students getting better outcomes and being happier at school.”

Luke SparkesCEO, Dixons Academies Trust

“...Project HE:RO has significantly improved the learning culture at our school. Our Health Mentor has been instrumental in reaching our vulnerable pupils and helping them to engage in the classroom…”

Heather PhillipsHead Teacher Blakesley Hall Primary School