Serious Youth and Group Violence Training
Recognising and Responding to the needs of Serious Youth Violence
Working with gangs and Serious Violence is a complex issue; there are no quick fixes, no number of services which can afford to work in isolation. The benefit of your intervention depends on the awareness, skills and experience of your staff. SMART Training and Consultancy can work with you to improve all three areas through training and ongoing consultancy services.
So far SMART Training and Consultancy has delivered training to police officers, judges, teachers, council staff, youth workers, nurses, probation officers and prison staff on working with young people involved in gang activity, serious youth violence and anti-social behaviour. The feedback we receive continually demonstrates that practitioners who have been on our training have been able to improve their practice and better effectively respond to the needs of the young people they work with.
Delivered by trainers with first-hand experience of the criminal justice system and negative lifestyle choices, They not only speak from experience, but are also able to relate findings from research and academic studies.
No glamourising, no nonsense, just a solid practical focus on what is known to work!
Usual course length: 1-2 days
As a result of the training, you will:
Courses can be tailor-made to include the following elements:
All employees or 'Front Line' practitioners who deal with those 'at risk' of gang involvement or Serious Youth or Group Violence
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote
So far SMART Training and Consultancy has delivered training to police officers, judges, teachers, council staff, youth workers, nurses, probation officers and prison staff on working with young people involved in gang activity, serious youth violence and anti-social behaviour. The feedback we receive continually demonstrates that practitioners who have been on our training have been able to improve their practice and better effectively respond to the needs of the young people they work with.
Delivered by trainers with first-hand experience of the criminal justice system and negative lifestyle choices, They not only speak from experience, but are also able to relate findings from research and academic studies.
No glamourising, no nonsense, just a solid practical focus on what is known to work!
Usual course length: 1-2 days
As a result of the training, you will:
- Have an improved understanding of gangs and serious youth violence
- Identify the reasons young people affiliate with gangs
- Understand the reality of gangs serious youth violence and the media
- Be able to identify at the earliest stages possible whether a young person is involved in gangs and serious violence
- Understand the issues around girls and gangs, including grooming and sexual exploitation
- Learn what is meant by County Lines and how they operate
- Be able to identify ways of working in partnership to facilitate group exit safely
- Learn from experts with first-hand experience
Courses can be tailor-made to include the following elements:
- The structures of gangs and organised criminal networks
- Recognising the warning signs and behaviour of young people that are involved in gangs.
- Why and how people get involved in gangs, and possible initiation rites
- County Lines - what they are, how they work and what to look out for
- The exploitation of girls, and the experience of female gang members
- Warning signs that young people are becoming involved with gangs
- Making interventions and examining the appropriateness of participants’ policies and procedures
- Strategies for helping people exit gangs
- Accessing specialist support and resources
- Understanding how group affiliations work and how this influences a young person’s decision making.
- Understanding how to break gang links and replace feelings of solidarity and gang membership with something else.
- How to work with young people pro-actively and take appropriate action to reduce offending and absconding.
- A breakdown of the skills needed to divert young people with gang affiliations to more appropriate activities and to develop a sense of belonging.
- Building strategies for supporting gang exit.
- What motivational tools are best for practitioners to use?
- Learning from mistakes of the past
All employees or 'Front Line' practitioners who deal with those 'at risk' of gang involvement or Serious Youth or Group Violence
Get in touch with us to discuss your needs and get your quote