Young People's Services
Respect's Young People's Services (YPS) focus on teenagers' use of violence in close relationships (ie to boyfriends, girlfriends, siblings and parents). The YPS is currently funded from Comic Relief and the DCSF Children and Young People's Fund.
One of the key tasks of the YPS has been the development, evaluation and dissemination of a toolkit for those working with the 13-19 year olds around their violence in relationships. The toolkit as it stands has been piloted in 5 projects across the UK and the initial evaluation of these pilots will be in in August 2010.
Half day Autumn seminars to launch the YPS Toolkit
We've set up a series of half day seminars across the UK to disseminate the findings of the evaluation and to let practitioners know more about the materials that will make it into the final draft of the toolkit. The seminars will run in October and November 2010. Please click here for the events listing. This document also includes the contact details for each seminar.
Working with young peoples' violence in close relationships - a 5 day modular training course
The toolkit will be ready to be trained out to all practitioners across the UK at the end of 2010. We are running two five day courses - one in London and one in York - which will equip practitioners to use all of two the toolkit materials. The training will include full access to the online toolkit and the accompanying DVD materials. For more information on these courses, and for the application form, click here .
The National practitioners network - Autumn seminar in Coventry
The YPS is committed to facilitating a network for projects and practitioners who are working with young people's use of violence across the UK. To this end we help to run six-monthly practice sharing seminars. The next one will be in Coventry and will be run in partnership with 'Chapter 1' on October 6th 2010. If you are interested in attending or running a workshop, email Julia.worms@respect.uk.net
Directory of services for young people
We are also compiling a national directory to enable our helpline staff to identify local services for those in need (If you are aware of a local service, please let us know) . If you think your service might be relevant please download the form from here .
National conference 2011
On Feb 17th 2011 we'll be running a national conference on young people's violence in close relationships. This will take place in London. At this stage we're still finalising speakers for the event. If you want to nominate anyone or send us your wish list of who you'd like to hear speaking on these issues - from anywhere in the world - do email kate.iwi@respect.uk.netand we'll be happy to consider your ideas.