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Throughout the UK, there are various arts schemes designed to help teenagers and young adults deal with their changing lives. Leading examples of the sorts of schemes on offer include Hull Truck Theatre Company (www.hulltruck.co.uk), in Hull. A theatre company with an international reputation, it has a history of helping young people from all backgrounds to become part of its productions. It works with young people in schools, youth clubs and other community settings.

There is County Durham-based Theatre Cap-A-Pie (www.cap-a-pie.org). It provides leadership and skills advice to various organisations. The theatre launched RESIDUUM, a six-month programme of theatre-based alternative educational provision for 13- to 17-year-old excluded, habitual school non-attendees in 2001. The group looks at and creates drama focused on the reasons behind their distrust of formal education and exclusions from integration. Based on this the group created Base Jump, a production featuring drama, film and dance.

In Brixton, London there is Raw Material (www.raw-material.org). It is a music programme, supported by the Lambeth Youth Offending Team, concentrating on new technology and giving training for young people in DJ mixing, CD production and music promotion.

New Vic Borderlines (www.newvictheatre.org.uk/ border.html), in Staffordshire, aims to bring theatre to young people with chaotic and dysfunctional lives. It uses varied arts disciplines, including drama, music, video, visual arts, dance and photography. Projects are run in partnership with the local Youth Offending Team, Victim Support and the police. Its ''Making Amends' project won the British Crime Concern Programme.

Orleans House Gallery (www.richmond.gov.uk/depts/ opps/eal/leisure/arts/ orleanshouse/), in Twickenham, works with local schools and family audiences and has outreach projects to work with young offenders and young people at risk. Its Interiors 21 project worked with 'disaffected' young people to build confidence through an interior design project aimed at getting them to change the way they looked at public and personal spaces.

ACAVA (www.acava.org), a west London arts group, works with professional artists and organises workshops for young people to improve their self-esteem and encourage creative skills.

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The art of life
Taking control

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Parent Power
Books for Parents
Help for Parents and Families

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Details of schemes local to you can be found through: Connexions: www.connexions. gov.uk/ Phone: 080 800 13 2 19 Text: 077664 13 2 19 The Unit for Arts and Offenders Website only: www.a4offenders. org.uk/ There is an A-Z of arts organisations under the section on Useful Contacts and Support