Youth Ink is an involvement charity for children and young people that aims to create opportunities for work experience, volunteering, and employment opportunities for children, centring lived experience. Youth Ink’s Peer Support Navigator Network works with marginalised young people to develop youth justice interventions. The network includes young people who have been through the criminal justice system and are now working as peer support navigators.
The Peer Support Navigator Network has been successful in helping young people who are at risk of entering into criminal behaviour. The network has helped young people to develop the skills and confidence they need to make positive changes in their lives. The network has also helped young people to access work experience, volunteering, and employment opportunities. Youth Ink’s Peer Support Navigator Network is an innovative approach to youth justice interventions that has the potential to make a real difference in the lives of young people.