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In-House Training and Consultancies

If 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 at your premises. We can deliver all the courses listed below (meaning we come to you), as well as all our professional development qualifications. Or we can just tailor a training course to meet your needs.

To book an in-house training course simply contact Claire Shephard, Training Co-ordinator at London Youth on 020 7549 8802 or email claire.shephard@londonyouth.org.uk to discuss your needs.

Please click on the course title that interests you
Alcohol Awareness: Harm Reduction and Practical Solutions
Challenging Homophobia
Conflict Resolution
Programme Planning
Using Basic Counselling Skills with Young People
Young People and Self Harm
Consultation with Young People

Alcohol Awareness: Harm Reduction and Practical Solutions

This one day course will help you to have confidence to develop practical solutions to promote alcohol awareness in young people. You will be able to:
• Identify and evaluate the negative and positive effects of alcohol
• Understand the long and short term effects
• 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
• Understand the law in relation to young people and alcohol

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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 course 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.

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Conflict Resolution

One day course. 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 behaviour and responses, participants can come to an understanding of conflict. As part of this course we look at the conditions and the skills you need for doing conflict resolution work with young people.

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Programme Planning

Course length - one day or two evening sessions. 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
• Aims, objectives and learning outcomes
• Delivering a programme
• Social education
• Resources
• Evaluation

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Using Basic Counselling Skills with Young People

One day course. This course will cover the basic counselling techniques, help you with active listening and offer the development of your skills which will encourage young people to talk about their concerns and worries. An interactive course with role plays and activities to practice new skills. It will provide practical tools of communication which provide a supportive, comfortable environment in which young people, and colleagues, might open up and share experiences, views and hopes.

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Young People and Self Harm

One day course. This workshop will cover
• Self harm - what is it?
• The nature of self harming behaviour - how young people come to hurt themselves
• Managing your own responses and the distress it can cause
• Your ability to respond to young people who present self harming behaviour
• Resources and services that can support you and the young people you work with

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Consultation with Young People

Do you deliver a public service to young people? Would you like to ensure your service is responsive, accessible and relevant to young people in London?

We have a strong track record of engaging creatively with young people, enabling them to have a voice in the services they use. Our expertise lies in supporting small teams of young people to devise and facilitate creative and engaging workshops to be delivered to other young people. We are currently working together with Transport for London in this way as part of of their youth engagement strategy. We have trained a group of young peer facilitators and they are engaging with groups of young people exploring their experiences of travelling on public transport.

In addition to direct consultation with young people, we also deliver training to staff who work on the front line to enable them to understand their own responses to young people. We can also conduct a young people's accessibility audit of your service, enabling you to receive a direct analysis of your service from young people themselves.

Contact Esther Thompson, Head of Training on 020 7549 8805 or email esther.thompson@londonyouth.org.uk for further details.

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