RISEFollowing incubation from the Lab, RISE won the 5K Social Enterprise award at the Cambridge University Entrepreneurs' competition on the 8th of June. See below for more details:
http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/hi-tech/12038-journey-just-beginning-for-cambridge-university-entrepreneurs
RISE is an
evidence-based program matching court-involved young people with adult coaches.
Its mission is to provide role models who can inspire, educate, and expose youth
to new opportunities. Through its innovative, activities-led curriculum, Young
RISErs will develop critical life skills and educational tools that will
empower them to achieve greater success and self-sufficiency – and to stay out
of the juvenile justice system.
Baillie Aaron
Baillie Aaron is a graduate of Harvard University
and a current MPhil student in Criminological Research at the University of
Cambridge. She spent two years at Harvard’s Program in Criminal Justice Policy
and Management, and at the same time founded Venturing Out, an educational
non-profit recruiting volunteer business leaders to teach entrepreneurship to
court-involved young people and incarcerated adults. She has completed training
on building and running a mentorship program, with a focus on at-risk young
people. Baillie is a Boston JA Business Hall of Fame inductee, a Kairos Fellow,
and a PresenTense Social Entrepreneur Fellow.
Daniel Marshall
Daniel Marshall is a graduate of
University of Teesside (BSc) Criminology and Psychology, and University of
Leeds (MA) Criminological Research, in which he worked with Leeds Youth
Offending Service to analyse the changing characteristics of 9052 first time
entrants to the youth justice system from 2002 – 2007. Daniel is currently a
PhD student at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, focusing
on the implementation of mentorship programmes with young offenders. Daniel
also spent five years working as a police officer with Durham Constabulary, UK
(2003 – 2008), and has vast experience of teaching young people from a variety
of backgrounds in the UK, France, and the USA.
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