Detached Youth Work

The project aims to support young people to address the issues that they face which may be causing a barrier to their social, emotional, educational development and wellbeing and by doing so prevent escalation of need.
We aimed to increase young people’s confidence and knowledge so that they can access support and information independently and in a timely manner to ensure self-regulation, self-care and to prevent the escalation of their needs which might result in crisis. The detached youth work is necessary to enable this due to a lack of youth club provision in the area.
We aimed to raise awareness of the needs of local young people post pandemic within their communities and support young people integration within their local community by addressing issues of anti-Social behaviour.

The project has enabled us to gather large amounts of information from young people which would otherwise be difficult to understand. From the detached youth work we have had outcomes such as local councils investing in their young people and funding youth clubs, police informing us that rates of ASB have declined and the opportunity for young people to feed into multi agency meetings to improve provisions in the area.

We discovered that where the detached youth workers were known by young people in the area, engagement was much higher than if they were new faces.

We measured success by numbers of young people engaged with, positive feedback from young people on support they have received, number of young people signposted to appropriate services and local organisations being aware of the problems young people are facing in their communities.