Knife Crime Awareness Workshops
The Violence Reduction Partnership would like to invite you to attend one of our Online Knife Crime Awareness Workshops hosted by The Ben Kinsella Trust.
Please note, these workshops will be held via ZOOM, further details with meeting links will be sent prior to the sessions for you to join.
Communities, Youth Workers & Practitioners
The Ben Kinsella Trust invites members of the community to come together to learn how we can tackle serious youth violence, knife crime, and the important supportive role that communities have in preventing children and young people being criminally exploited.
Our training sessions are intended for members of the community, youth workers, practitioners, community leaders, faith leaders, local businesses and others who wish to tackle serious youth violence.
The Youth Workers & Practitioners: Helping Children & Young People Stay Safe Training runs for two hours and covers the following topics:
- Understanding knife crime from a young people’s perspectives
- The signs and stages of child exploitation
- Gangs and gang-life
- Exploring the link between trauma and exploitation
- Consider online harms, social media, slang and gang-related music
- Understanding how ‘issues’ with peers can escalate and how young people can manage them
- Empowering young people to prevent harm; the SAFE ‘T’s approach
- Further support and resources available
To book onto one of the Communities, Youth Worker & Practitioner online sessions, please register on one of the below:
Parents & Carers
Parenting children and young adults is hard, sometimes it can be scary and overwhelming with news stories and social media influencing how safe we feel our children are and the risks they may face in today’s climate.
Our knife crime awareness workshops empower attendees to learn about topics such as the influence of social media, the signs and stages of exploitation, and how we can prevent children and young people being affected by knife crime as parents, carers and as a community.
The Parents and Carers: Helping Our Children Stay Safe workshop runs for two hours and covers the following topics:
- Understanding knife crime from the perspective of children & young people
- The signs and stages of child exploitation
- Gangs and gang-life
- Exploring the link between trauma and exploitation
- Consider online harms, social media, slang and gang-related music
- Understanding how ‘issues’ with peers can escalate and how young people can manage them
- Having meaningful conversations about safety
- Helping our children stay safe; the SAFE ‘T’s approach
- Further support and resources available
To book onto one of the Parents & Carers online sessions, please register on one of the below: