Heartbeat's Young Offenders programme primarily exists to achieve the following outcomes:

• Provide personal development training linked to the arts (for example, workshops that look at career opportunities in the music business, TV & Film) to motivate young offenders to set goals and pursue their dreams.
  
• Use the arts and positive role models to get young offenders back into education/learning and help them to stay away from a lifestyle of crime. € Provide employment or work experience opportunities for students of the Academy through links with relevant businesses and organisations (for example, in the building industry, entertainment and sport).
  
• Employ and train ex-youth offenders to serve as mentors to their peers on the Heartbeat programme.
  
• Help young offenders and those at risk of offending to obtain new skills by providing them with fun learning opportunities. For example, web design, music video making, music production, songwriting, photography, modern dance sessions, DJ classes, Arts and crafts.
  
• Help young offenders reintegrate into community life when they transfer from custody to community supervision.
  
• To complement and work in partnership with parents, voluntary and statutory organizations to deliver local and national outcomes