Youth Offending and Early Intervention

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Our Solution Focused Approach - Working with young people who offend 1/2/3 day courses provide teams with a tool for change when working with young people who offend and their families. Both approaches are fit for purpose for Statutory orders including Parenting Orders and ISSP - Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme.

This course has been commissioned by YOT, YISP and YADAS teams across the UK in their work with young people at risk of offending or who are referred under statutory orders. The training also offers Youth Offending teams an intensive, whole-team resource including ISSP.

The Consultancy have extensive experience in training staff from all agencies involved in a young person's life and have devised strengths-based, future focused programmes, using the Solution Focused Approach as the principle model.  The ethos of working with young people to help them move towards a more constructive life rather than implementing punitive measures is proving effective for better outcomes.

One of our programmes: Affecting Early Years (AEY) was included in the West Midlands Police Authority's Early Intervention Programme developed by Inspector Chris Dowen of West Midlands Constabularly (pictured above with Eileen Murphy and the trained Officers). The National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) included our AEY Programme on their Best Practice website in February 2011.  This allows Police Forces from across the UK to have access. 

The Consultancy were commissioned to train Police and Community Support Officers in our AEY Programme to prepare them for their collaborative work with schools. housing managers and community renewal officers to provide an early intervention strategy to help and support children and young people within the community.

In the last two and a half years the scheme has, along with other initiatives pioneered by Inspector Dowen, led to the following reductions in crime across the Dudley Sector area:

 1009 less crimes
 198 less Serious Acquisitive Crimes (Robberies, Burglaries and Vehicle Crime)
 201 less Criminal Damage crimes
(Crime figures April 2008 to December 2009)

Youth Panel Training

A new training programme Solution Focused Youth Panel Meetings for Youth Panel Members is available over a period of 1, 2 or 3 days.

The language of the approach is useful in Youth Panel settings because it offers the victim an opportunity to take real steps towards emotional recovery and the offender to recognise what change needs to happen in small, realistic ways and how they will achieve that change in order to reduce the risk of recidivism.

The training includes positive ways of engaging families to play a part in helping to make real changes. The ethos of the Approach is to work collaboratively with the cultural, socio-economic and individual family culture of the client.

The result is that young people and their families feel empowered and can work within a statutory intervention that recognises, respects and uses the family’s sense of competency and control over their own lives while maintaining the unique culture of each family unit.

Because it is a non-damaging model, the particular language and time-distortion techniques allows workers and volunteers from all social care fields to use the approach.

For further information about these courses, please contact the Consultancy at
info@brief-therapy-uk.com or Telephone 0208 947 8093 or office mobile 07779 242 289.