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Kelly Mckie receives her award from Tom Ashford, from HSBC UK.
Kelly is employed by Middlesbrough Environment City through the Prices Trust Talent Match programme on a Local Environment Services apprenticeship. Kelly has progressed very well on her apprenticeship and is due to complete her course in December.
Please see Kelly’s story below:-
Kelly, now 24, was in and out of the care system from the age of two.
“Experiences in my childhood destroyed my confidence. I’d get angry and aggressive at school for no reason and when people tried to help, I got scared they’d hurt me, and I rebelled.”
She tried to go to college but it was too much and she left early.
“I got depressed and started drinking and taking drugs as a way of coping. Then my dad died and that’s when I hit self-destruct. Suicide seemed my only way out.”
When Kelly’s stepmother realised the gravity of her situation, she asked her to move in with her and helped her get clean.
Kelly was then referred to Talent Match and went on to complete Team, a 12-week Prince’s Trust programme that builds sills and confidence so young people are better equipped to secure work.
She also flourished on the “Get Started with Health and Fitness” programme and joined the Youth Panel, which helps make decisions about young people’s pathways.
She said “I’ve learned so much about myself and what I’ve got to give because of The Prince’s Trust.”
“If it wasn’t for them, I’d be dead in a gutter. They have picked me up so many times. Thanks to them I’ve finally got a job at Middlesbrough Environment City and a life I enjoy and feel in control of.”
3 EASY DIPS
INGREDIENTS:
450g of plain natural low fat yogurt
with one of the following:
2 cloves of garlic, finely crushed
3 tsp of mint sauce OR 1 tbsp of chopped mint
1 tsp of curry powder
1/2 cucumber, finely sliced
PREPARATION:
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Jennys Pasta is now available in social supermarkets around Middlesbrough thanks to the extraordinarily hard work and dedication from researchers from Fuse, clinicians from Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust , Teesside University and the Middlesbrough Food Partnership alongside ourselves. Together, this amazing coalition worked with people living with SMI to develop a range of nutritious recipes that can be transformed into affordable ready meals using surplus ingredients. The first batch, Lentil Bolognese, is now available in social supermarkets across Middlesbrough.
The pilot is the culmination of earlier research into food insecurity in the North of England, as well as into how people living with SMI can be supported to access healthy, affordable food, which was hosted by Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust in collaboration with Teesside University, Newcastle University , Fuse and Equally Well UK (a collaborative hosted by the Centre for Mental Health), and funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research, as part of their NIHR Research for Patient Benefit – Mental Health in the North programme.
We are proud of the hard work done by the partners and by our phenomenal Middlesbrough Food Partnership team to make a real difference to those living with SMI and tackling food insecurity. Well done, everybody: The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and we're proud to have taken that first step alongside you all in this initiative.
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