Welcome to Travellers

Young people today experience change at a pace more rapid than previous generations, for instance starting a new school, changing friendships, moving cities or countries and family and personal health issues.

When young people struggle to cope with these and other transitional events, emotional distress may result, particularly if they don't have the skills and/or support to cope.

Skylight's TravellersTM programme recognises these young people that need the extra help and support. Read more about the Travellers programme.

Click here to access our demonstration of the Travellers Online Survey. The sample data can be found after the survey.

News and Updates

Travellers Quantitative Research - February 2012

The New Zealand Council for Educational Research [NZCER] were commissioned by Skylight to undertake  Quantitative Research on Travellers in 2011. The research concentrated on evaluating the short and medium term outcomes of Travellers and was conducted with young people 2 to 3 years after they had taken part in a Travellers programme.

The report concluded that there " is moderate to strong evidence of change across a wide range of well being-related outcomes for most students, as well as for sub-groups of students, including those identified in New Zealand data as being more at risk of negative health related-outcomes". The report also concluded that " for a relatively short programme of workshop sessions this is a good outcome, which indicates that Travellers is likely to be a useful investment for schools when considering how best to support at-risk students and support them to develop strategies to contribute to their well being".

 

Overview of the Contents of the report and the Executive Summary

The full report can be viewed in the Research section of this site.

Travellers Training- 2012

Confirmed Training dates:

Christchurch - May 3rd and 4th - Sudima Hotel

If your school requires training to deliver the programme in 2012, please contact us at travellers@skylight-trust.org.nz  or on 04 9398576 as soon as possible.