Meet a Young Changemaker: Dollie Stifflell

Dollie has had an enormously transformative year, overcoming several personal trials in remarkable displays of resilience. She has gone from never eating at school since nursery to now regularly having lunch. Additionally, she has broken a generational cycle of being a non-attender to achieving a headteacher’s award for reaching 100% attendance, as well as mending the relationship between her family and school. Moreover, she has learned conflict mitigation, self-regulation and how to forge and maintain healthy friendships and with trusted adults; all of the noticeable changes aligned with her engagement in Newham’s SAFE Taskforce’s Bounce Back programme.