What We Do

The Young Lives Foundation provides the following services and activities for children and young people

• The Kent Appropriate Adult Service – providing trained volunteers to assist and advise young people being questioned by the police when parents or carers are not able to attend.

• The Kent & Medway Independent Visitors Service – providing trained volunteers to befriend young people in care who have little or no meaningful contact with their parents.

• Medway Challengers – providing positive activities and support for individuals and groups of children and young people looked after by Medway Council.  

• Medway Children’s Rights & Advocacy Service – providing a rights and advocacy service for all children and young people eligible to receive support from Medway Children’s Services.
• Children in Care Councils – facilitating and supporting young people’s involvement in both Kent and Medway.
• New Directions Mentoring Programme (Medway) – providing trained volunteers to motivate, guide and assist young people towards the achievement of positive goals.

• Upfront – providing the children’s rights and advocacy service for Kent’s looked after children and care leavers

• Independent Mental Health Advocacy – providing independent advocacy for young people detained under the Mental Health Act

If you are a young person and want to know more, please go to our Young People's Zone

If you are interested in our volunteering opportunities,please go to our Volunteers Zone

If you are a professional and want to find out how we can help you, please go to our Professionals Zone