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Day 1: 17th January 2024

Day 2: 18th January 2024

Day 3: 19th January 2024

📍 Location: SOLVE HQ, Quayside Tower, 252-260 Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2HF

Day 1: Therapeutic Approaches to Working with Children and Young People

Facilitator: Dr. Elizabeth Fitzmaurice

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the therapeutic nature of own role.

Understand current challenges facing practitioners in the “helping professions” seeking to provide services for young people associated with gangs and youth violence.

Understand “Practitioner Social Modelling” as a means of engagement and change in relation to young people who are exposed to gangs, violence, and crime.

Be able to model own role to meet the needs of young people and their families.

Aim: Learners will understand the therapeutic nature of their own role and the current challenges facing the caring professions seeking to provide services for young people associated with gangs and youth violence. They will understand practitioner social modelling as a means of engagement and change in young people who are exposed to gangs, violence, and crime and will be able to develop own role to increase capacity to meet the needs of young people and their families.

Day 2: Responding to Youth Violence through Youth Work

Facilitator: Craig Pinkney

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the factors that cause young people to join deviant groups who may be involved in different forms of violence and criminality.

Understand how to apply youth work theories, models, and approaches in a range of settings.

Understand the implications of current policies and practices when supporting young people involved in criminality and living in environments where crime and violence are commonplace.

Be able to critically, self-reflect and to share learning with others about ways to address issues around youth violence.

Aim: Learners will understand the factors that cause young people to join deviant groups who may be involved in different forms of violence and criminality. They will understand how to apply youth work theories, models, and approaches in a range of settings, and will understand the implications of current policies and practices when supporting young people involved in criminality and living in environments where crime and violence are commonplace. Learners will be able to reflect on and share own learning about ways to address issues around youth violence.

Day 3: Black Men, Invisibility, and Crime: The Racialisation of Criminal Justice Systems and Processes

Facilitator: Dr. Martin Glynn

Learning Outcomes:

Understand the political, social, economic, and cultural contexts of racialisation within the criminal justice system for Black men.

Understand the racialisation of criminal justice systems and processes, by considering the social responses to it.

Understand key contemporary policy processes within the criminal justice, and critically consider their functionality and roles.

Be able to participate in reflective learning activities with peer group.

Aim: The course aims to enable learners to understand political, social economic, and cultural impacts of racialisation within the criminal justice system for Black men. Learners will understand key contemporary policy processes within criminal justice and critically consider their roles. Learners will be able to participate in reflective learning activities around working with Black men impacted by the criminal justice systems and processes.

🎟 Ticketing and Pricing: 1 day - £599, 2 days - £1049, 3 days - £1699

Why Attend?

Gain insights from experienced facilitators.

Engage in reflective learning and share experiences with peers.

Equip yourself with tools and strategies to bring about positive change.

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for social workers, youth workers, educators, criminal justice professionals, and anyone keen on making a positive impact on the lives of young people and their communities.

1. Choose your option.

2.Make payment.

3. Email Name and option to solvecyvc@mail.com

1. Choose your options.

2.Make payment.

3.Email Name and options to solvecyvc@mail.com

1.Make payment.

2.Email Name and options to solvecyvc@mail.com