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In-house Training

Do you have a group of staff, volunteers or young people that need training? It could work out more cost effective and easier to have training delivered specifically for your group. We would come to your premises to deliver the training.

We can deliver the courses listed below plus the Introduction to Youth Work, Level One, Level Two and Level Three nationally accredited youth work courses in-house or we can tailor a training course to meet your needs.

For booking, please contact us on
020 7549 8800 or email claire.shephard@londonyouth.org.uk

 
 
 
 
 
 
  Using Basic Counselling Skills with Young People
 
  Working with Boys and Young Men from Black and Minority Ethnic Communities


 
  Introduction To Child Protection

One Day Course
A comprehensive introduction to child protection issues and what they mean for you as a worker or a volunteer. Gain a working knowledge of how you to protect yourself and young people, your responsibilities plus an insight into issues of abuse and how to deal with these issues.

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  Management Committee training

One Day Or Two Evening Session Course

This course is for you if you want to: know what makes a management committee successful; understand the roles and responsibilities essential to effective committees; know your formal responsibilities; know how to run effective meetings; know how you can improve the functioning of your committee; know how you can develop your own role; identify strategies for keeping committee members active and interested.

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  Programme Planning

One Day Course

Aims and Objectives
Planning an effective curriculum programme is vital to any youth project. Getting it wrong due to lack of preparation can have a major impact on your youth project.
It aims to provide participants with some practical ideas for
planning a curriculum programme.

Topics include
• The Planning Process
• Aims, Objectives and Learning outcomes
• Delivering a programme
• Social Education
• Resources
• Designing Resources
• Evaluation

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  Alcohol Awareness

One Day Course

Aims and Objectives
To develop and build confidence to use practical solution focused skills to promote alcohol awareness and harm reduction to young people.

Learning Objectives
On completion of the course the participants will be able to:
• Identify and evaluate the negative and positive effects of alcohol
• Understand the long and short term effects on body and mind
• Identify and understand how alcohol use in the family and society can affect young people
• Identify integrative practical and interesting ways of introducing alcohol awareness to young people.
• Identify unit strengths of common alcoholic drinks and sensible limits
• Understand the law in relation to young people and alcohol

Who the course is for: An essential course for practitioners working with young people.

  Challenging Homophobia

One Day Course
Do you sometimes struggle when responding to young peoples homophobic views? Are you unsure how to respond when they need to talk about sexuality and sexual identity?

This one day training will support you to become more creative and effective in your responses, thus enabling young people to examine their views and explore issues around sexuality and sexual identity.

By the end of the course you will have
• Explored your own attitudes and beliefs around sexuality as it relates to your work with young people
• Examined the impact of prejudice and discrimination on the lives of young lesbians and gay men.
• Developed your practical ability to respond to the issues raised by young people around sexuality.
• Considered good practice for your work place.
• Identified what you need to know and other resources for your work.

Who the course is for: Anyone working with young people

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  Policy Development

One Day Course

Are you interested in creating and maintaining an organisation that works in the best interests of the young people it serves? The policies which organisations develop are the ‘blueprints’ for the way in which an organisation operates. A healthy organization is one which takes the time to develop informed workable relevant policies which can be put into practice on a daily basis.

This course aims to gives you the knowledge and skills to develop policies which are appropriate to you and to your organisation. It will also be an opportunity to review existing polices in the light of good practice in policy making.

The course will cover
¦ Who to involve in policy and creation and how to involve them.

• Models of policy making.
• Less is More: Good practice in policy writing.
• Putting it into practice in the workplace
• ‘A living document’: How to make sure that your policy
remains relevant.

 
  Tackling Bullying

One Day Course
Do you see bullying going on in your youth project or amongst the young people you work with? Are you unsure how to tackle it? Is it unclear ‘who started it’? Are you too busy to tackle it every single time? This course will show you how to tackle bullying as part of your everyday work.

In this course we will
• Examine ‘what is bullying?’
• Identify our own experiences of being bullied and/or being
a bully
• Ask what’s in it for the bully? – why do we do it?
• Understand the impact of bullying on young people’s mental
health and well being
• Discuss real life situations of bullying and find solutions to
address them
• Understand why a ‘just ignore them’ approach doesn’t work
You will also take away from the course
• A bag of ideas to try out in your youth project
• Information on where to go for more help

This course will show you how to address bullying by organizing activities so that young people can confidently hold each other to account and demonstrate that they won’t accept being bullied.

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  Conflict Resolution
One Day Course

Aims and Objectives
’Conflict Resolution’ should be thought of as training in the creative use of conflict, rather than as a way of avoiding issues or mediating arguments. Through developing an understanding of the dynamics of conflict, and looking at our own and fictitious characters’ habitual behaviour and responses, participants can come to an understanding of conflict that can enable the development of strategies for dealing with it, whatever form it takes, wherever it arises.

The aim of a course is twofold. To introduce the concepts of conflict resolution and through experiential exercises develop an understanding and awareness of ourselves in conflict, and at the same time, to become familiar with the material and look at the conditions and skills necessary for facilitating the work with young people.

Who the course is for: The course is useful for anyone who wants to understand more fully how to turn around conflicting situations to a positive outcome.

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Using Basic Counselling Skills With Young People
One Day Course

Aims and Objectives: This course aims to raise your awareness of the nature of what is often described in the media as ‘child prostitution’.

The contexts in which young people get caught up in sexual exploitation are many and varied. Their needs can be complex. Shame and fear can prevent them from asking for help.

So what do I need to know to be able to raise awareness of these issues? How can I support young people who are being exploited? Am I knowledgeable enough to be able to respond effectively?

This one day course will answer these questions and cover:
• how young people get involved in ‘prostitution’.
• terminology, the law and child protection issues.
• how to talk about these issues and raise awareness.
• The skills in engaging with young people who are at risk of, or are being sexually exploited in this way.
• The issues for young people in these circumstances and how you can best respond

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  Working with Boys and Young Men from Black
and Minority Ethnic Communities
One Day Course

Aims & Objectives: This workshop is open to anybody who currently works with or intends to work with boys & young men from black and minority ethnic communities. The session will explore some of the influential factors in the lives of the young men.

Topics covered during the workshop will include:
• Cultural understanding and background
• Masculinity and society
• Racism
• Issues facing workers when working with young men from ethnic minorities.

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  If you would like to book us to deliver a course for your group please contact Esther Thompson, Head of Training at London Youth on 020 7549 8805 or email esther.thompson@londonyouth.org.uk to discuss your needs. We will then forward you a booking form.
   
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