We turn a high risk time – e.g. the threat of exclusion from school – into an opportunity for the young person to effect change in their lives. Short term – positive self-identity; emotional wellbeing; improved school attendance; increased respect for self, others and authority. Medium term – increased academic performance and positive behavioural choices. The cycle of underachievement is broken and social change is happening as young people set and achieve self-determined goals, changing their mind-set on the potential they have for their future. Long term – the intergenerational poverty cycle is broken. The young person achieves educational goals never before achieved in their family resulting in a change of attitude towards education and the relationship of achieving higher paid employment.