Our Vision

A future where poverty, violence, criminality and exploitation no longer define or destroy young people’s life chances, choices and potential.

Our Core Values

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We strive to practice and hold ourselves and each other accountable to our organisational values - in how we operate, act with integrity, treat people, and make ethical decisions. Values are our moral compass, keeping us aligned to our vision, purpose, mission and impact culture.

  • Professionalism is an expected essential for staff here. Holding ourselves and each other accountable and responsible for demonstrating the highest standard of employee skill competences and behavioural skill disciplines that we coach and equip young people with - is vital. Having lived experience and ‘being authentic’ alone is simply not enough, as it does not guarantee professionalism or a person’s ability to perform at a high level and contribute effectively to our professional working environment.

  • People thrive on diversity here, and where belonging means removing a divisive ‘us versus them’ blame culture mentality. This is why safety, trust and honest communication are relentlessly encouraged. As important being a multi-cultural employer, we intentionally engage young people from all different ethnicities and cultural backgrounds, removing barriers so they can access opportunities and resources for achieving fair outcomes, equality, equity and sustained progression.

  • We fully understand how important it is to stay agile and adaptable. Streets of Growth’s practitioners characterise ‘dynamic’ by their energy, enthusiasm, and having the willingness and creative ability to respond to change. Being proactive, emotionally resilient, open to challenge and make changes – we continually strengthen performance while staying focused on delivering safe, consistent outcomes for young people in complex contexts.

  • No matter how effective we are as an organisation; we achieve far more in strategic intentional partnerships than we can alone. Collaboration isn’t easy, especially when organisations, communities, and even our staff amongst ourselves, may have differing or opposing priorities and perspectives. But we see this creative tension and conflict as a natural and inevitable aspect of change and strive to be adept at navigating and negotiating through such challenges with respect, empathy and maturity.

  • Real results matter! Our frontline practice works in tandem with our internal Centre for Applied Research and Evaluation, which informs and guides our work with the best available evidence derived from our frontline practice, applied research, science, and real experience. We take data input and extraction extremely seriously when measuring outcomes and impacts and we are careful to make the clear distinction between ‘assumed evidence’ and ‘undeniable evidence’.

Our Purpose
& Mission

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“We exist to work with young people aged 15-21, experiencing and engaged in harms that extend beyond the home. We use long-term outreach and interventions that build Relationships for Change, address harm, develop behavioural skills and community leadership, and sustain young people's progression in education, training and into work - until equipped to do so independently of us!”