New Team SCIO

New Team SCIO is a Christian street youth work charity, alongside young people in Govan, Glasgow, doing street youth work (detached work) and other youth work activities like trips. We engage with 11-18 year olds who hang out on the streets and continue alongside these young people until they are 21 years old. We aim to facilitate young people’s social, personal, and spiritual development. We are alongside young people on the margins, because we see in the bible that Jesus reaches out to the marginalised. We support young people’s spiritual development according to where they are at. We seek to work with young people towards the full potential of who God made them to be, whether they are interested in a faith journey or not. The areas we target are within the 5% most deprived according to the Scottish Government’s Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2020). We focus on the young people who have not responded to traditional youth work and school. Many of those we meet on the streets experience adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). New Team SCIO is working towards every young person who hangs out on the streets of Govan having a positive relationship with appropriate adults, that contributes to lowering risk and widens opportunities, including the opportunity to hear the gospel.

Member of the Evangelical Alliance and Youth Scotland.