Events & Training
Current Training Programme
Youth Access offers a portfolio of specialist training courses for advisers, counsellors and supervisors.
Training can be delivered as in-house training - please see Other Advice Courses and Other Counselling Courses for more details.
Or, book a place on our public training programme, details of forthcoming courses are below: Please click the title links for full details.
Current Training Programme
Helping Young People Make the Most of Their Money, Hayes - Free course
16th March - P3, Hayes
Gain a greater awareness and confidence to engage young people in financial literacy.
Helping Young People Make the Most of Their Money, Islington - Free course
23rd March - Alone in London, Islington
Gain a greater awareness and confidence to engage young people in financial literacy.
Monitoring the Outcomes of Advice Work with Young People - New Course
31st March - Youth Access, London
Identify the most appropriate methods and tools to use in your agencies for monitoring youth advice outcomes.
Establishing Counselling Assessment and Risk Management Tools and Frameworks for your Agency
27th & 28th April - Youth Access, London
Develop an organisational counselling assessment framework, policy and tools to enable a collaborative relationship with young people and support best practice in managing risk.
Helping Young People Make the Most of Their Money, Doncaster - Free Course
29th April - The Bridge, Doncaster
Learn a greater awareness and confidence to engage young people in financial literacy.
Young People's Rights within the Education System - A practical approach to advice
12th May - Youth Access, London
Develop your confidence to give initial basic advice and identify the potential for legal challenge for young people within the education system.
Working with Young People at Risk of Suicide in the Counselling Process - New Course
18th May - Youth Access, London
Explore how to recognise and work with a young person who is having thoughts and feelings about suicide, review how to identify the level of risk and establish a risk management plan with the young person, and identify when to refer on for further help.
Counselling Young People: An Introduction
25th May - Youth Access, London
This training day will focus on counselling young people particularly within the developmental stage of adolescence. We will build on participants existing experience, knowledge and skills.
Advising Young People on Housing and Homelessness
27th May - The Bridge, Doncaster
Understand how services for homeless 16/17 year olds should now be delivered in the light of recent House of Lord’s judgements. Increase your confidence in advocating on behalf of young people within the context of an increasingly complex process.
Assessing Risk and Resilience in the Counselling Assessment Process
8th & 9th June - Youth Access, London
Equip yourself with the insight, theoretical knowledge, framework, tools and skills needed to undertake effective and collaborative counselling assessment with young people.
Understanding Safeguarding and Child Protection when Working with Young People
17th June - Youth Access, London
Develop your understanding, knowledge and competence in dealing with safeguarding and child protection issues and concerns when working with young people.
Welfare Benefits and Young People
24th June - The Bridge, Doncaster
Develop your knowledge of Welfare Benefit rules and procedures to enable accurate and effective advice to be given to young people
An Introduction to Using Solution Focused Approaches with Young People
29th June - Youth Access, London
This introduction to solution focused approaches will focus on addressing the issues of concern to young people, build on their strengths, contribute to their resilience and work with them towards positive solutions to the problems they face.
Working Through the Counselling Relationship with Young People who Self-Harm - New Course
13th July - Youth Access, London
Raise awareness about why and how young people engage in self-harm including self-injury and explore ways of responding to these issues within the counselling relationship.
Working Creatively to Engage Young People in the Counselling Process
14th September - Youth Access, London
Explore how creative approaches in counselling can be used to engage young people, identify and work with emotions, unspoken problems and confusing questions of identity
Improving Advice Skills
8th & 15th September - Youth Access, London
Develop your competence in the skills required for giving high quality rights-based advice to young people.
Understanding Identity, Exploring Differences and Challenging Prejudice
19th October - Youth Access, London
Explore and develop your understanding of the different elements of your own and others identity. How identity can shape our core values and recognise how prejudice develops and is sustained.
Nurturing Young People's Mental Health through the Counselling Relationship
2nd November - Youth Access, London
Gain an opportunity to consolidate your knowledge about the spectrum of good mental health to mental health problems, disorders and illnesses, and to reflect on ways of working more effectively with young people on that continuum