The adulting, together platform

The Adelphi platform is a digital support resource designed to help care-experienced young people navigate everyday adult life with greater confidence, clarity, and choice.

It brings together clear signposting, practical downloadable resources, and engaging content, all designed to empower users to understand their options, reduce overwhelm, and take meaningful next steps at their own pace.

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WHAT IS it?

The Adelphi platform is a central hub of practical guidance created specifically for care-experienced young people.

It combines accessible information, trusted signposting, and real-life context across the areas of life that often feel overwhelming when stepping into independence. Alongside written guidance, the platform includes downloadable resources and engaging content designed to support learning, reflection, and action beyond the screen.

The focus is not on telling people what to do, but on empowering informed choice- building skills, confidence, and helping users feel more in control of their next steps.

categories

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    Living & Housing

    Help with finding a home, understanding tenancies, dealing with landlords, and knowing your rights around bills, repairs, and safety.

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    Money & Budgeting

    Support with budgeting, bills, benefits, and managing debt. Practical help for getting through the month and feeling more confident with money.

  • Cooking & Food

    Simple food support for when money, energy, or motivation are low. Easy meal ideas, food planning, and realistic ways to eat well.

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    Practical Skills & Life Admin

    Help with everyday admin and life skills. Clear guidance on forms, systems, and the things no one really explains.

  • Four young adults sitting at a table in a cafe, smiling and chatting, with drinks and a tablet.

    Work & Career

    Guidance on jobs, work confidence, and next steps. Support with applications, workplace rights, and figuring out what comes next.

  • Pink and silver stethoscope resting on a white surface with shadows of window blinds.

    Health & Wellbeing

    Gentle support for mental and physical wellbeing. Help with routines, rest, and getting support when things feel heavy.

  • Three crumpled yellow paper balls on a green speech bubble-shaped surface, surrounded by yellow lined sheets of paper.

    Communication & Relationships

    Support with boundaries, conversations, and asking for help. Guidance on navigating relationships safely and respectfully.

  • Five people are extending their fists toward each other in a handshake over a white desk. The desk has a plant, a laptop, a smartphone, notebooks, and coffee mugs.

    Education & Development

    Support with learning, training, and skill-building. Clear information on courses, qualifications, and development options.

  • Group of four women enjoying drinks and chatting outdoors, standing in front of a colorful mural.

    Support & Community

    Help understanding what support exists and how to access it. Information on entitlements, services, and community support.

  • Three friends jumping in the snow on a sidewalk in winter, smiling, with trees and buildings in the background, one of whom is wearing glasses and a cap.

    Identity & Confidence

    Support with understanding yourself, building confidence, and developing self-trust. Gentle guidance on self-belief, boundaries, and navigating identity when it has been shaped by change or uncertainty.

Accessible. Practical. Built to meet people where they are.

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    Blogs

    Adelphi’s blogs capture real moments - from managing a first home or job to building confidence and celebrating small wins.

    Written with lived experience, they encourage reflection, connection, and growth.

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    Tools

    Interactive planners, checklists, and everyday guides - from budgeting and recipes to signposting towards trusted support.

    Adelphi’s tools turn learning into action, helping users apply practical skills, organise their lives, and find trusted help when needed.

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    Videos

    Short, accessible clips designed for visual learning.

    Bite-sized videos and animations bring everyday concepts to life - from cooking and communication to confidence and wellbeing.

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    Success Stories

    Celebrating care-experienced young people and the professionals who support them.

    Every success story highlights real progress - showing what’s possible when the right support, confidence, and opportunity come together.

  • Three young adults jumping in the snow on a sidewalk with snow-covered trees and houses in the background, smiling and having fun.

    Community

    Collaboration, connection, and shared experience.

    The Adelphi community celebrates partnerships, peer-led voices, and creative collaborations - from sponsored content and professional insights to lived-experience stories that shape lasting change.

How organisations use Adelphi

Adelphi is designed to support care-experienced young people with everyday independence, confidence and decision-making - while sitting alongside, not instead of, existing services.

Organisations use Adelphi in flexible ways, depending on their role, setting and the needs of the young people they support. It can be shared as a self-directed support tool, used to support conversations and key work, or offered as part of wider preparation for adulthood and transition support.

Rather than adding another programme to deliver, Adelphi provides a consistent, accessible reference point that young people can return to in their own time. This helps reinforce learning between sessions, reduce overwhelm, and support independence without withdrawing support.

Adelphi does not replace statutory, specialist or crisis services. Instead, it supports everyday life skills and confidence, while clearly signposting to the right external support when additional help is needed.

For organisations, Adelphi can also provide proportionate, privacy-aware usage summaries to support learning, evaluation and accountability - without monitoring or profiling individual young people.

  • Adelphi can support conversations during key work, personal advisor sessions or informal check-ins. Practitioners may refer to specific topics or suggest sections for young people to explore between sessions.

    This helps reduce pressure to cover everything at once and supports continuity beyond appointments.

  • Adelphi can be shared with young people to explore independently, at their own pace. Content is clear, supportive and designed to be dipped into when something feels relevant, rather than followed in a set order.

    This suits young people who value privacy, flexibility or time to process information.

  • Adelphi can be helpful for young people who find formal services difficult to engage with, or who prefer to explore support outside of appointments.

    Created through lived and professional expertise, the platform offers a calm, non-judgemental space that can help build confidence and act as a stepping stone towards wider support.

  • Organisations use Adelphi to support preparation for adulthood and independence work across areas such as housing, money, work, wellbeing, relationships and identity.

    Adelphi can be introduced early and revisited as needs change.

  • The platform includes clear signposting to trusted external organisations and services. This supports informed decision-making and helps professionals confidently direct young people to appropriate support.

    Adelphi does not duplicate specialist provision.

What People Are Saying

  • "The attention to detail around the platform and content is great. i wish i had it personally!"

    — CPD Lead, Virtual School

  • “I’ve used the Adelphi platform with young people I mentor, and it’s been incredibly valuable."

    — Director, Youth Services & Keynote Speaker

  • “It’s actually helpful. Not preachy or patronising. Just explains things I didn’t know.”

    — Young Person, 18 (Pilot Access)

  • "Grounded, Practical and genuinely child-centred"

    — Trauma-Informed Care Home Owner

  • “It made things feel clearer without making me feel stupid for not knowing.”

    — Young Person, 20 (Pilot Access)

  • "A great addition to support offerings."

    — Leaving Care Team Manager

Living and leading together

Adelphi brings people and perspectives together - because confidence grows faster when we’re learning, living, and leading together.

Alongside Adelphi’s ten content categories, which are tailored to be trauma-informed and accessible across different learning styles, the platform also signposts to trusted external organisations where additional or specialist support may be helpful.

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Support beyond Adelphi

Adelphi includes its own Support Directory, available on both the website and within the platform.

The directory brings together trusted external organisations that provide specialist, independent, or urgent support where additional help may be needed.

The organisations shown below are a small selection included within the Support Directory. The full directory includes these and additional services, organised by topic and need.

Adelphi is not affiliated with, nor does it deliver or manage, these services. Each organisation remains responsible for its own support, information, and delivery.

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    Advice, advocacy, and support for care-experienced young people.

  • Information about local authority support and entitlements for care-experienced young people.

  • Free, confidential advice on money, benefits, housing, work, and legal issues.

  • Housing advice, homelessness support, and information about housing rights.

  • Mental health information, guidance, and support services.

  • Careers advice, CV support, and guidance on training and work routes.

View the full Support Directory

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