YLC e-bulletin 8th January 2025
10 January 2025 at 13:28
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The online resource for children and young people in Wakefield |
www.WF-I Can Emotional Wellbeing Resource for young people.
The website was developed during COVID in response to young people saying they wanted a space with reliable information, we worked with YP, VCSE Public Health and 22 organisations and service areas to develop the site.
We are currently refreshing the website and would like to welcome organisations involved in working with young people to take part.
Got a question about this? Email: info@ylc.org.uk
Training and Workshops
Young Lives is currently offering a Two-day ASIST training course on the 24th & 25th February, St Mary's Community Centre. Pontefract. WF8 2AY.
What is ASIST?
An accredited two-day, interactive training that prepares professionals to provide suicide first aid interventions.
Who can attend ASIST?
Anyone over 16 can learn to use the ASIST model. No previous mental health or suicide prevention experience is necessary.
Attached is further information regarding the course and the expression of interest form.
https://forms.office.com/e/WaCja7tYbt?origin=lprLink
We are currently taking expressions of interest for the ASIST training programme, find out more about the training via this link scroll to the bottom of the page to register your interest for either your team or individuals.
Know what to do if someone is thinking about suicide by following the easy-to-remember TALK steps - Tell, Ask, Listen, and keep safe.
Alternatively, if you would like to host a SafeTALK session please do let us know via info@ylc.org.uk
The Risk and Resilience Framework
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10th April. 09:30 - 12:30 Wakefield One. WF1 2EB
The session will enable you to increase confidence in using the framework, recognise how it can complement your work, identify and overcome barriers to using it, and share best practices.
Please note that this training is delivered with Public Health, as such your details will be shared with Wakefield Council to book you on the training.
To book your free place please visit: www.younglives.net/events/calendar/
News
Wakefield Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) is pleased to share it has published its updated Multi-Agency Safeguarding Arrangements (MASA) document.
The updated MASA document sets out the partnership’s arrangements as prescribed within Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023: Chapter 2 Multi-agency safeguarding arrangements and replaces the previous 2019 version.
The MASA document is available here and is also viewable from the About Us Page on the WSCP website – www.wakefieldscp.org.uk
We are creating a signposting document that pulls together all the voluntary sector organisations working in the fields of mental health and wellbeing who offer physical activity / moving more activities.
We know the hugely positive impact moving more can have for both physical and mental health, they are inextricably linked.
A Wakefield based research project is happening in March 2025 called SPACES, which works with adults with a severe mental illness diagnosis to move more and adopt more positive lifestyle habits. As part of the 18-week programme participants will be encouraged to find community-based activity options they can continue after the programme ends.
This is where the resource plays a vital role.
If you have an activity offer, you’d like including, please send the details below through to Rachel: Rachel.hale@nova-wd.org.uk who is collating the document.
Organisation name
- A brief description of your organisation & the activity offer
- Activity offer available – days, times, venue, cost etc if stable (long term), alternatively a link to website or social media where details can be found.
- How do people access your offer?
- Photos of what you do.
Help us shape the new Children and Young People’s Plan
The survey for professionals to complete is now available to complete.
As a professional working with children and young people, we want to hear your voice! To support us in creating the new co-produced ‘Children and Young People’s Plan’ for 2025-2028, we would like to hear as many of your voices and experiences as possible. There are 8 questions in this survey, which can be accessed via the following link:
Help us shape the new Children and Young People’s Plan 2025 - 2028 (professionals survey)
A paper copy of the survey has also been attached to support completion. These can be scanned and returned to partnershipsgovernance@wakefield.gov.uk
If you have any further questions or require any further information, please contact partnershipsgovernance@wakefield.gov.uk
This survey is open until the end of January 2025.
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Star Bereavement has a ‘jamboard’ feedback forum on the website where anyone can leave a note. This could be positive, something to improve, or anything else Star welcome all feedback so please visit www.starbereavement.org.uk and leave us |
The Cost of Living crisis toolkit is accessible digitally or can be used more traditionally and provides comprehensive guidance, activities and resources for youth workers to use with young people
Discover twelve session plans covering various cost of living aspects, empowering young minds to navigate complexities and build resilience
Funding
The Youth Voice – Creative & Active Fund
We would love to hear from you, what ideas do you have to support young people in your community? Here is your chance…
The Youth Voice – Creative & Active Fund gives young people in Wakefield the opportunity to apply for funding to spend on creative and active opportunities that will benefit other young people and make a real difference to their communities.
The fund is to support the ideas and activities from young people as part of the youth voice work taking place across the district, particularly in relation to developing and delivering creative and active opportunities for young people.
- The funding available to young people, aged 11 to 19 years old, or up to 25 with a disability, who live in Wakefield.
- The fund is totally youth-led. Young people think of the project ideas, write the bids, and run the projects. They are helped by a supporting organisation.
There are 2 streams of funding that are available:
- Build Our Futures - Each individual application can be for up to £2,000
- Healthy & Sustainable Communities – this is to support 10 areas - Each area can apply for £1,000, details for this funding pot will be circulated to groups within the 10 priority areas, Public Health have identified.
Please read through the guidance notes and return your application to BuildOurFutures@wakefield.gov.uk
Applications can also be made via a video – please see the attached questions to follow. Video Application
The closing date for bids 10th January 2025.
Youth Endowment Fund Launches Open Call Funding Round
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) invites proposals from delivery organisations across England and/or Wales that work to reduce young people’s involvement in violence and are ready for rigorous evaluation.
The aim of this open call is to fund and evaluate projects that will help YEF build strong evidence for practices and approaches in areas where clear gaps exist.
The funding is for projects which are ready for an impact evaluation with an experimental design (ie, randomised control trial) or a quasi-experimental design.
The funding can be for both the delivery of the intervention and the evaluation itself.
Projects need to primarily support children and young people (aged 10 to 18 years) who are either:
- At risk of crime or violence (‘secondary prevention’), or
- Already affected by violence, offending or exploitation (‘tertiary prevention’).
Projects also need to be working in one of the following sectors:
- Youth sector
- Children’s services
- Youth Justice
- Policing
- Neighbourhoods
- Health
- Education
YEF is interested in proposals from both:
- Delivery organisations currently delivering an evaluable project, service or intervention.
- Partnerships between delivery organisations and YEF Evaluator panel members.
Applications will be considered from registered charities, companies, statutory bodies and community interest companies (CICs) supporting children and young people in England and/or Wales.
There is no set grant limit. Applicants need to provide 20% of delivery costs themselves either through supplementary funding or in-kind provision. Organisations led by representatives of Black and/or racially minoritised communities who are unable to meet the 20% supplementary and in-kind target should apply as their application will be assessed separately.
There are no deadlines for this open call.
Homepage | Youth Endowment Fund
For further funding opportunities
Jobs
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Spice Awareness
Turning Point Inspiring Recovery & Inspiring Futures Wakefield has developed guidance on Spice awareness, its impact on people, and support for practitioners and people in the community.
Please see the link for further information.
Support for people over 16
Charity Insurance - Specialist Advisers to the Third Sector organisations
Free UK Charity Web Hosting
https://www.kualo.co.uk/free-charity-hosting#eligibility
Wakefield Recovery & Discovery College
Further information regarding Citizen Coin
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