How ACT Support Organisations and Other Agencies

Enabling the difference

Our experienced facilitators have a great understanding of the skills required to effectively engage, support and develop young people, offering bespoke and custom solutions that can assist you in meeting your needs.

ACT can support you to:

  • Engage hard to reach young people and communities within their environments
  • Support, Develop and Enable the young people you work with
  • Consulting with young people and hard to reach communities
  • Develop Engagement Strategies
  • Getting critical messages across to your audiences at your events
  • Measuring, monitor and evaluating your impact

We Can Provide You With:

  • Mentors, youth development and family practitioners
  • Specialist Detached or outreach / street workers
  • Specialist Speakers, Trainers, and Facilitators
  • Tools and resources

Training

County Lines

ACT CIC has recently developed a ground breaking training session with gang and safeguarding specialists that have first-hand experience of working with and supporting the individuals involved with County Line and Child Criminal Exploitation. The course is designed to enable professionals to understand the term county lines and learn how to spot the signs and respond effectively to support the individuals involved.

The course aims:

  • To give participants a better understanding of the term County Lines.
  • To explore the current figures and trends.
  • To explore the grooming process and identify who is targeted and how they become involved.
  • To highlight the dangers faced by young people and vulnerable adults involved in county lines.
  • To discuss the vulnerabilities faced by children, young people to increase recognition and understanding of process
  • Critically discuss the criminal exploitation of children
  • How to identify the signs that a young person may be involved in County Lines
  • To know how to share information, Identify sources of support and respond to County Lines.
  • How to engage young people who have been groomed for County Line

Working with Gangs & Youth Violence Course

ACT CIC are now running the working with Gangs and Youth Violence Course in Birmingham.

The Open College Network West Midlands Level 3 Award and Level 3 Certificate in Working with Gangs and Youth Violence provide learners with the underpinning knowledge and skills to be able to work with young people involved in violent behaviour or activities and with young people in gang impacted environments.

This qualification has been designed to enable learners to:

  • Develop interpersonal skills;
  • Work safely with young individuals;
  • Gain knowledge of social and psychological aspects of youth violence;
  • Understand national policies addressing youth violence;
  • Understand the impact of mental health on young people in gangs;
  • Understand and employ exit strategies from a gang;
  • Understand effects of marginalisation.

The minimum age for access to this qualification is 18 years.

For more course information

Young People in Society

OCN level 1 and 2 Courses for young people will be Launched Soon 

ACT Street Team

We can provide a small team of urban youth specialist to deliver outreach work, that can be deployed into the streets to engage, consult and build relationships with young people, identify key hot-spots, specific groups of young people, that are not engaged in youth provision and that maybe potentially at risk of youth violence. Our team of urban youth specialist will work unsocial-able hours to identify key gaps in provision and offer support for young people.   

ACT has recently deployed its street team into.

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