The people behind ENABLE
The ENABLE program has been devised by a multi-disciplinary team - Fronting The Challenge Projects Ltd (FTC). Its members have substantial experience of working with young people in a wide variety of settings including education, youth work, social work, and community health and hospitals.
The original project team first came together in 1994 to develop positive ways of responding to disruptive and anti-social behaviours and disaffection; their aim was to provide discipline and the development of moral and social responsibility.
The team worked with teachers, support staff, youth workers, health and community workers, and education managers to further develop and improve their approach. At this point the team had devised a wall chart which depicted the six building blocks of experience along with the needs, responses and activities for each stage. It enabled the teacher to identify a child’s most acute needs (and the appropriate responses and activities) by matching his or her behaviours, general health and demeanour to one of the building blocks.
This assessment aid helped teachers to understand children’s needs better, and it identified the ways in which particular relationships and educational settings could be improved. It included ways to enable the school to carry through the recommended plan, and it suggested different strategies to help children develop more control, choice and responsibility for their behaviour. It suggested various ways to make the curriculum more accessible; it also defined the factors that contribute to effective teaching throughout the school, especially teaching for personal and social development and positive, learning-oriented behaviour.
Reactions to the resources and to the early training and case supervision sessions were very positive. People were keen to have these ideas and strategies made more accessible - and the idea of a computer program was born. In 2001 FTC Projects Ltd began to work with The Modbury Group to develop the current software program.
Now the program has been developed into an innovative and successful online assessment tool, available from any web-enabled computer.
Free Trial
To try ENABLE ONLINE for yourself, without any obligation, simply click here to register. You can then trial the full program for an unlimited time to create a 'live' assessment of a child or young person.