Detached Youth Training offers a fantastic opportunity to strengthen your engagement skills, broaden your understanding of detached youth work and learn effective ways to reach and support young people in their own communities.

Overall aim: By the end of six weeks, workers will be able to safely start detached youth work in familiar neighbourhoods and begin the process of detached youth work 'reconnaissance' in unfamiliar neighbourhoods. Workers will be able to initiate conversations on the street with young people they do not know, work according to Manchester's Detached Youth Work Common Protocols, and critically reflect and record their practice.

All sessions will take place on Tuesday evenings, 6:30-8:30 pm at Brunswick Community Hub, Brunswick St, Manchester, M13 9SX. It is hoped that participants will attend all six sessions. A certificate of completion will be issued on completion. 

13- October - Exploring what is detached youth work

20- October - Working outdoors in neighbourhoods and making contact

3- November - Relationships, boundaries and informal education

10- November - Safe detached practice and dynamic safeguarding

17 - November - Purposeful practice: from contact to youth work

24 - November - Recording, reflection and consistent practice

Booking: There are 14 places on this course. To book a place, please email Helen Gatenby on helen@m13youthproject.org.uk. For more information please contact Helen on 07973976925. Booking closing date is Friday 9th October. 12 noon.

In mid-2019, Young Manchester funded M13 Youth Project to take on the role of Strategic Lead for Detached Youth Work in Manchester, to support the development and delivery of robust and excellent quality detached youth work. We convened a Steering Group of experienced detached youth workers and managers from various local organisations to consider the issues facing detached youth work and workers in Manchester. Much of our initial work was undertaken through the Covid-19 pandemic and involved responding to requests for support for those wanting to work with young people in outdoor public spaces during the pandemic.

More recently, we have been working with Graeme Tiffany and detached youth workers and managers in Manchester to produce Common Protocols for Detached Youth Work in Manchester. These were published and launched in June 2022; and reprinted (with minor edits) in November 2022.

You can download an electronic version below.