What We Do and Who We Help
Our programmes have an underlying theme - to build independence, self-esteem, inner strength, personal responsibility, self-motivation and purposefulness - ultimately, to help people to get the life or job that they want.
Below you can read about the client groups who benefit from our programmes:
GOALS and the Homeless Sector
OSW have fully integrated the GOALS two-day motivational course within its services to hard-to-reach homeless and disadvantaged people. Employment outcomes amongst the GOALS programme participants are exceptional – currently 54% of GOALS programme participants have achieved their goal of employment and a further 10% are participating in volunteering activity.
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Revitalises Agency Staff
Training to deliver GOALS revitalises staff who might be a bit burnt out, de-sensitised or demoralised 
by difficult clients. Staff see themselves more as part of the solution and less as an obstacle to their clients.
So, not just participants, but also the facilitators take a great deal of value from GOALS.
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Helping Families to take positive steps forward
GOALS helps parents to build their confidence and abilities to positively parent their children. They learn tools and techniques that enable them to take sensible and positive action for the future and for themselves and their families.
GOALS is a common sense programme, (but common sense is not always common practice). Sometimes we all need a refresher course in how to do the right thing and how to be a good role model to our children.
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Thank you very much for such a fantastic training event. I recommended you highly to the Irish prison when they 
rang to see if you were any good!!
- Merron Mitchell, Director of OLASS at City College Manchester
Participate in this programme if you have the opportunity, irrespective of your area of employment. It’s Excellent!
- HM Prisons Staff Education course 2007.
Helping to Reduce Re-Offending through Employment and Skills
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Helping people to believe they can work
Braille version of the 30-Day Plan now available
The Government’s focus on getting people on Incapacity Benefit back to work has given organisations a major challenge and opportunity. Pathways to Work is the focus of this energy at the moment.
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A proven way to help people succeed
GOALS has proven successful at helping hundreds of thousands of people including some of the most resistant and hard-to-place - to find and hold down jobs.
GOALS is not just a quick fix. Through its Ten Keys to Success, the programme deals with the psychology of unemployment to help the unemployed person get not just a job but the foundations of a career - and a foothold for life.
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