If you are a Youth Provider in Stockton, please check out this page for the latest free training and events.

Youth United Stockton (YUS) has secured funding to provide free of charge training to voluntary and community sector organisations delivering services to young people (aged 8 – 19 years) within Stockton-on-Tees.

Places on our courses are limited to:

• Voluntary and community sector organisations delivering youth services to 8- 19 years olds within Stockton-on-Tees
• Places are on a first come first served basis

As part of our training programme, we are currently providing:

Youth Mental Health First Aid (Accredited)

A 2 day in-depth course which will see participants accredited by Mental Health England as Mental Health First Aiders. This course looks in more detail at individual disorders, risk factors, signposting, child and adolescent development, bullying and cyber bullying, substance misuse and protective factors.

The session will be a mix of presentation, group discussions and group work activities.

This course will be delivered on:
Thursday 24th January 2019 – Friday 25th January 2019
9am – 5pm

Venue: Five Lamps, Eldon Street. Thornaby, TS17 7DJ

Click here to register your place. Booking in advance is required.

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Journey Through Transition – Gender Identity Training

This 2 hour session will explore gender identity issues from a young persons perspective with a focus on the journey through transition.

This course will be delivered on:
Monday 11th February 2019
6pm – 8pm

Venue: Newtown Community Centre, 123n Durham Road, Stockton-On-Tees, TS19 0DE

Click here to register your place. Booking in advance is required.

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Modern Day Slavery Training 

On completion, participants will be able to explain what modern slavery is and the different types that exist. They will be able to recognize the signs/indicators of different types of modern day slavery and how to respond effectively to a victim of modern day slavery.

This course will be delivered on:
Monday 18th February 2019
6pm – 8pm

Venue: The Youthy, Thornaby Road, Thornaby, TS17 6LS

Click here to register your place. Booking in advance is required.

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We have previous delivered the following courses. Please email info@yus.org.uk if you would like us to run these courses again:

• Youth Mental Health First Aid (Accredited)
• Youth Mental Health First Aid (Lite)
• Modern Day Slavery
• Level 3 Emergency First Aid
• Engaging the hard to reach and relationship building
• Level 2 Food Safety and Hygiene in Catering
• Building resilience and reducing Mental ill-health triggers
• NOCN Level 2 Working with Challenging Behaviour
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Leadership
• Recruiting and Managing Sessional Staff and Volunteers

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We also recognise that the youth sector is very diverse and our training programme might not fulfil all of the training and workforce development activities of each voluntary and community sector youth provider.

As a result, we have ring-fenced a small element of the funding to enable organisation to apply for a £100 bursary to contribute towards the cost of specialist training or workforce development activities.

Please click here for more information and download the Funding Application form

Please complete, read the funding agreement, sign and return along with proof of expenditure to info@yus.org.uk

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Youth United Stockton (YUS) has allocated an Area Priority Fund, which enables voluntary and community sector Youth Provider’s in Stockton-On-Tees the opportunity to apply for up to £1,000 to respond in a partnership approach to emerging issues within their locality.

The fund will only support applications that show partnership working and projects that target young people primarily aged 10-19 year’s old in one (or a number) of the five localities.

Please email info@YUS.org.uk for more information and a Area Priority Funding Application Form.