Events

Events & Training

Youth Access offers a portfolio of specialist training courses for advisers, counsellors and supervisors. Training can be delivered either as in-house training, or as part of our public training programme. Details of forthcoming courses are listed below.

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Current Training Programme

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Good Practice in Counselling Assessment

27th - 28th January - London

Learn about the purpose, elements and good practice of effective and collaborative counselling assessment, how this fits with a young person centred ethos, how to implement the Youth Access Quality Standard and more………

Understanding Identity, Exploring Differences and Challenging Prejudice

26th February - London

Explore and develop participants understanding of the different elements of their own and others identity, how identity shapes our core values and how prejudice develops and is sustained.

Young People's Rights within the Education System - A Practical Approach to Advice

5th March - London

Develop participants confidence to give initial basic advice and identify the potential for legal challenge for young people within the education system

Assessing and Managing Risk in the Counselling Assessment Process

10th March - London

To develop participant’s knowledge and understanding of the management of risk and of harm to self or others in the context of shared responsibility between the counsellor, supervisor, manager and the agency.

Coordinators – Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT)

11th & 12th March 2009 - Woodbrooke Centre - Birmingham

Are you new to the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Agenda? If you are, come and learn about what IAPT is and what it will mean for you and your agency and lots more….

Casework Supervisory Skills for Managers and Supervisors

24th - 25th March - London

To extend participants’ existing skills and experience in building effective collaborative supervisory working alliances within which staff feel valued and heard, and can express and work through their difficulties and differences.

Improving Advice Skills

31st March - 1st April - Taunton

To develop competence in the skills required for giving high quality rights-based advice to young people.

Advising Young People on Housing and Homelessness

28th April - Taunton

To develop participants’ understanding of young single homelessness and the relevant legislative frameworks in order to increase confidence in using the law to advocate on behalf of young people in housing need.

Improving Advice Skills

28th - 29th April - London

To develop competence in the skills required for giving high quality rights-based advice to young people.

Welfare Benefits and Young People

6th May - Taunton

To develop participants’ knowledge of Welfare Benefit rules and procedures to enable accurate and effective advice to be given to young people

Welfare Benefits and Young People

11th May - London

To develop participants’ knowledge of Welfare Benefit rules and procedures to enable accurate and effective advice to be given to young people

Introduction to Solution Focused Approaches

12th May - London

To develop participants’ knowledge and understanding of a Solution focused approach which lends itself to building on young people’s resilience, resources, strengths and abilities and works within their own belief systems and goals.

Advising Young People on Housing and Homelessness - In partnership with Shelter

2nd July - London

Welfare Benefits 2 - Beyond the Basics

7th October - London

To improve the skills of more experienced welfare benefits advisers (client group: young people under 18, and all those in non -advanced education)

Challenging Decisions for Homeless Young People

19th October - London

Assist advisers with problems around homelessness legislation and seeking reviews of adverse decisions. To develop an understanding of the complaints procedure that can be used to challenging Children Act or Children Leaving Care Act decisions or inertia.

1. Online training directory

Funded by the Children's Workforce Development Council, the directory brings together the training provided by the voluntary youth sector that is accessible and open to all. It provides signposts to a broad spectrum of courses delivered by a range of training providers.

2. Central register of approved trainers

This register of approved trainers has been established as part of the Working Together for Advice partnership project. The purpose of this register is to enable members of the advice networks to contact trainers and access training directly.

3. Funding guide on workforce development