TC No Offence II - UK

The National Agency of the YOUTH programme in the United Kingdom, CONNECT YOUTH, in co-operation with the SALTO Resource Centre on Inclusion organises a Training Course for youth workers, peer educators, probation service officers, and arts practitioners working with young people at risk about how to use European Voluntary Service (within the frame of the European YOUTH Programme -EYP) as a way of expanding the European network of people working with this specific target group. In this context, young people at risk includes: ex prisoners or young people who are likely to commit a criminal offence and/or are known by the police or the criminal rehabilitation services. AIMS No Offence Training Course II aims to increase the use of European Voluntary Service (EVS) projects (in the frame of the European YOUTH programme) in the work with young ex-offenders, young people in community service and young people at risk of offending. In order to reach this aim, the following provisional objectives are put forward: * Bringing together (youth) workers & organisations working with the target group and to exchange working practices with the idea of exploring issues around the notion of Social Inclusion. * Exploring the possibilities and benefits of European Voluntary Service within the frame of the European YOUTH programme as a practice to engage more young people from this specific target group. * Developing project management skills in setting up international Voluntary Service projects (YOUTH Programme) with young people at risk of offending, young ex-offenders and young people in prison. * Working on partnerships and increasing the concrete follow-up projects with partners from the course or others - and multiplying the skills and knowledge gained at the course (e.g. set up projects, cooperation with the NA, spread information, etc) * Documenting the outcomes of the course in the toolbox for use by other youth workers working with young ex-offenders, young people who are currently in prison and youth at risk. TARGET GROUP For the TC No Offence are 15 place available for participants, selected according to the criteria below. Participants at the TC No Offence should be: * Working directly with young people at risk, i.e. ex prisoners or young people who are likely to commit a criminal offence and/or are known by the police or the criminal rehabilitation services. They can be youth or social workers, educators, police, prison staff, arts practitioners and others who are working with/organising projects for the target group (regardless if this is on voluntary or paid basis) * It is equally important that their organisations have an interest and also the possibility to set up European Voluntary Service projects and cooperation activities after the course - either with participants from the course, with the National Agency or other partner organisations. * Participants need to have a good working knowledge of English, the working language of the course. * Also it is imperative that they are available to attend the full duration of the course and are willing to participate into a follow-up questionnaire 6 months after the training course.