Breakout Bandits richt zich op<br />
jongeren en jongvolwassenen van<br />
18 tot 35 jaar

Our coaching

We distinguish 3 types of coaching:

1. Substantive coaching: young people learn new skills

2. Personal coaching: young people gain more confidence and self-insight.

3. Looking after each other: young people are less lonely and mentally healthier.

Substantive coaching: new skills

We provide substantive coaching to young people to develop new skills. We distinguish 2 sub-target groups with different substantive coaching.

Creative Dropouts

We offer creative dropouts a 10-month paid employment contract within our game creation process. We tailor the process to not only lead to the creation of a commercially valuable product, but also to provide ample opportunity for participants to learn new skills.

While working, we guide the young people to explore what the best next step is for them, so that they can take that step after the project.

Young Professionals

We offer young professionals who have reached a dead end a reintegration position with tailor-made guidance from a professional in sales, marketing, support, IT or office management. The work is therapeutic, but has a challenge according to their ability.

We select our employees based on their professional competence and social skills. They guide 1 or 2 young people in a relaxed, personal way and introduce them to the field. The young people carry out assignments according to their ability and learn new skills as a result.

The duration and number of hours per day are agreed with the participant and possibly the trajectory supervisor from the UWV or the employer. After this period, the participant has various options: enter a job at Breakout Bandits or another company, follow a training course, start their own business, as long as it is a next step in their life.

Personal coaching: more confidence and self-insight

We offer personal coaching based on the vision of relational youth work, with the aim of giving young people more self-confidence and insight.

We build a relationship with young people by doing things together (making new games and playing our own team building game), drinking coffee, having lunch together, going for a walk and, above all, offering a listening ear. We name the qualities that we see during this process and encourage young people to grow further in this. This way, they get to know their qualities and gain more self-confidence.

In our relational youth work, we maintain a professional distance, but at the same time we also share a lot of our own lives. We make ourselves vulnerable and show that our pain has become our strength. In this way, we create an open and safe atmosphere: young people feel free to discuss their challenges. We do not offer specialist care. This can of course be provided in parallel with a trajectory at Breakout Bandits

Young people look after each other: less loneliness and mentally healthier

Based on our experiences with youth projects, we know that a strong community is created when young people work together on a project and support each other in this. The connection with each other reduces loneliness. We encourage young people to look after each other and to support each other with mental problems. Young people do not solve each other’s problems, but they can encourage each other to seek professional help. That works much more strongly than a parent, youth worker, teacher or anyone else who encourages them to do so.

We use our own team building games to kickstart community building. We have lunch together and take the time to walk together. Together with working in a homely atmosphere, working together on a project and personal guidance, this will stimulate a group feeling that has a positive effect on the mental health of the young people.

At Breakout Bandits I discovered that I am not the only one who is stuck in this busy world. It is a safe place where everyone can discover and develop their skills. Everyone can be of significance.

Corianne

found a place at Breakout Bandits as a creative dropout

Experience

We have extensive experience in coaching young people.