Other Advice Courses
Training for Advice and Information workers
We offer a number of courses aimed at improving the ability of practitioners in the sector to provide good quality advice to young people on their rights, entitlements and options, which we can deliver in-house at your agency.
Improving Advice Skills training, at Streetwise, Newcastle
There are a number of advantages in having our advice courses delivered to your organisation in-house:
Tailored learning:
One size doesn't fit all when it comes to your agency's individual training needs: we will tailor our training to ensure we cover the areas you want to focus on.
Building relationships in your team:
Learning together develops both a common framework and purpose, and as an added value builds the relationships in the team through experiential work.
Working with other local partners:
In-house training at your place can help to build up local networks and sources of support.
Courses we can offer include:
- An Introduction to Youth Advice Skills
- Improving Advice Skills
- Advising Young People on Housing and Homelessness
- Identifying Housing Status and the Prevention of Homelessness
- Challenging Decisions for Homeless Young People
- Welfare Benefits and Young People
- Welfare Benefits for Sick or Disabled Young People
- Welfare Benefits 2 - Beyond the Basics
- Young People's Rights within the Education System - A Practical Approach to Advice
- Conducting Research with Young People: How to get the evidence you need
- Monitoring the Outcomes of Advice Work with Young People
- Helping Young People to make the most of their Money
- Opening Your Doors to Young People
- Using the Youth Advice Outcomes Toolkit in your Agency
- Maintaining Professional Boundaries in an Advice Setting
Most of the above courses are available as either in-house or regional open courses, for further information please contact: Helen Stollar, Advice Services Development Officer for Training on 0208 772 9900 x26 or contact Helen by email.
View our current training programme for details of forthcoming public courses