Professional Development for Youth Workers

We offer professional development for youth workers. The program focuses on understanding family and intimate partner violence and challenging violence-enabling myths and attitudes. We address the attitudes and beliefs of participants themselves, as well as how workers can support young people to develop skills to create respectful relationships in their lives. 

As people who are often in positions of care and influence, people working in the community sector are well placed to assist those needing to access support, to facilitate the empowerment of those they work with, and to challenge behaviour that may lead to and enable violence.

We also deliver workshops focused on creative facilitation techniques and strategies to engage young people in collaborative dialogue. We aim to assist youth workers to build their knowledge, skills and confidence in exploring with young people issues of gender, sexuality, sex, relationships, violence and support. 

Our workshops are tailored to the requirements and interests of each organisation or institution. They can be single or multiple sessions, depending on your specific requirements and available time. At minimum, single workshops run for 90 minutes. Multi-session workshops run for a minimum of 60 minutes per session.

Some of the topics we can cover include:

  • Understanding family and intimate partner violence in heterosexual and LGBTIQ+ relationships and communities; 

  • Challenging violence enabling myths and attitudesGender roles and expectations: deconstructing gender in an education setting

  • Constructing and delivering violence prevention, respectful relationships and positive sex education programs: issues, focuses, challenges, strategies

  • Broader community and social strategies towards violence prevention

  • Supporting people experiencing or who have experienced violence, safety planning and where to seek help, and resources and services for people who have experienced or enacted harm

  • Recognising and responding to people who have caused harm including accountability and transformative behaviour change

  • Transformative justice, community accountability and the limitations of the criminal legal system in addressing family violence and sexual assault

  • Collaborative dialogue and creative facilitation strategies and techniques for engaging young people in conversation around relationships, violence and sexual assault

Feedback we received from organisations:

  • “Tips and tricks from facilitators as well as leading by example in how they ran the session”

  • “Amazing workshop and great to work through the activities. Thank you”

  • “It provided the opportunity to learn and discuss really practical ideas for facilitation → which was great!!”

Cost

Our professional development workshops are charged on a sliding scale depending on the available resources of your organisation. Contact us for information on our current rates. If your organisation does not have access to funding, please contact us as we may be able to accommodate your request.