About The Young Warriors

The Young Warriors are an equal gender number of boys and girls in grade 9 and aged between 14 and 16 from different schools. They are identified by the school educators according to specific criteria. These teens are just past puberty growth, are more accessible than the senior grades and are the most receptive to change.

The LifeLine Young Warriors programme was conceptualised and implemented in 2010 by George Van Schalkwyk and has been running annually to date. It is a six-day, full-board programme, followed by supervision meetings. Each group consists of forty pupils from grade 10, twenty boys and twenty girls.

The programme outcomes aim to promote and enhance mental health wellness by empowering and enabling personal skills, which in turn develops and enhances personal skills to positively manage thoughts, feelings and attitudinal values, especially respect when playing the field of daily life and routines.

The programme objective is to ensure the teenager emerges with self-esteem, which implies wellness and mental health to be an effective and functional citizen, once again the all-important personal skills, to build complete wellness of body, sexuality and relationships in decision making and facing the challenges of risks and constraints

The Young Warrior programme is interactive and experiential with structured inputs, group work and activities with a trainer and two facilitators.

Mental health wellness and personal skills enable better life skills to face life challenges and have an active orientation to unique personal growth: with goals as well as to establish fulfilment in studies, vocation, family and social standing