Keeping Children and Young People Safe (Online Workshops for Parents and Professionals)

The Ben Kinsella Trust is offering training sessions for members of the community, youth workers, practitioners, community leaders, faith leaders, local businesses and others who wish to tackle serious youth violence.

Youth Workers & Practitioners: Helping Children & Young People Stay Safe Training

2 hours – This programme covers the following topics:

• Understanding knife crime from a young people’s perspectives
• The signs and stages of child exploitation
• Gangs and gang-life
• Exploring the link between trauma and exploitation
• Consider online harms, social media, slang and gang-related music
• Understanding how ‘issues’ with peers can escalate and how young people can manage them
• Empowering young people to prevent harm; the SAFE ‘T’s approach
• Further support and resources available

To book onto one of the Communities, Youth Worker & Practitioner online sessions, please register on one of the below:

Communities, Youth Workers & PractitionersTuesday 10^th June @ 10am – Click here

Wednesday 18^th June @ 1pm – Click here

Thursday 26^th June @ 10am – Click here

Tuesday 1^st July @ 1pm – Click here

Thursday 10^th July @ 10am – Click here

 Parents & Carers

Knife crime awareness workshops empower attendees to learn about topics such as the influence of social media, the signs and stages of exploitation, and how we can prevent children and young people being affected by knife crime as parents, carers and as a community.

Parents and Carers: Helping Our Children Stay Safe

2 hours – this workshop covers the following topics:

• Understanding knife crime from the perspective of children & young people
• The signs and stages of child exploitation
• Gangs and gang-life
• Exploring the link between trauma and exploitation
• Consider online harms, social media, slang and gang-related music
• Understanding how ‘issues’ with peers can escalate and how young people can manage them
• Having meaningful conversations about safety
• Helping our children stay safe; the SAFE ‘T’s approach
• Further support and resources available

To book onto one of the Parents & Carers online sessions, please register on one of the below:

Thursday 12^th June @ 6pm – Click here

Tuesday 17^th June @ 6pm – Click here

Wednesday 25^th June @ 10am – Click here

Thursday 3^rd July @ 6pm – Click here

Wednesday 9^th July @ 6pm – Click here

Please note, these workshops will be held via ZOOM, further details with meeting links will be sent prior to the sessions for you to join.