Raise Foundation | Evaluation Report 2022
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A note from our Data and Youth Insights Director
How Raise’s collaborative solution causes a ripple effect of hope. One of the 2022 words of the year was ‘permacrisis’ – the state of ongoing crisis. Building evidence shows the impact of the pandemic, multiple disasters, and subsequent economic upheaval on the wellbeing and engagement of young people is ongoing. We know it’s true because young people told us. Nearly 25% of young people feel negative or very negative about the future. 1 School attendance has reduced – only 70% of students are attending school regularly * . 2 While for year 8 students, 75% reported a worsening of their mental health following the COVID-19 disruption. 3
Due to those trends, schools identified students most likely to disengage from education, suffering from poor wellbeing, and recommended them as our 2022 Raise Mentees. At the beginning of the program, two thirds of these mentees told us that mental health was a top concern – 84% had faced at least one mental health or environmental challenge when they started the Raise program. We delivered 180 programs with the support of 1,941 volunteer mentors, 161 schools and 353 funding partners and donors. And, by the end of 2022, nine out of ten mentees improved in at least one of our four key outcomes. Proof of the power of showing up – and the impact of hope.
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