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Vice Presidents Lounge
Spotting the signs of radicalisation in youth interventions and sport and activity settings.
Presenters will:
- Outline some radical ideologies, organisations and extremist theories
- Discuss proscribed organisations and affiliations
- Examine some signs that a young person may be vulnerable to radicalisation
- Provide signposting and advice for effective safeguarding
Delivered by Caroline Ellis ECC Lead for Community Safety, Tony Willis, Andrew Lowing ECC Equalities and Partnerships
Dick Graham Suite
Combat sports not only improves physical and mental health but can be an effective engagement and crime prevention tool. They utilise the strengths of discipline, respect, integrity and self-worth to empower young people to make positive life choices. Combat sports can build stronger young people who will be galvanised to reject situations that are likely to cause them or their peers harm. Young people learn new skills, discipline, confidence, team-work and effective communication that instils a focused mindset that goes beyond the gym.
This interactive workshop explores:
- The role combat sport plays in youth intervention and community safety strategies
- Key partner agencies
- Experiences of a young person
- BoxSmart on the Ropes provision
Delivered by Supt. Waheed Khan, Essex Police Strategic Lead for Partnerships and Engagement, Local Police representation, Inspire2gether boxing provision coaches, Young person and Essex Youth Service
Players Lounge
National Online Wellbeing Services (N.O.W.S) will lead an interactive workshop in which they:
- Explore and invite attendees to experience the relationship between movement and mental health
- Discuss the impact that physical activity has on emotional wellbeing,
- Recognise the opportunities that sport and physical activity can offer for youth mental health and the potential links to young people’s vulnerability to exploitation and involvement in criminality.
Active Essex Foundation will also provide an awareness of the Essex Sport and Youth Mental Health Project and wider network.
Delivered by Luke Tandy and Sian Cleary from AEF Sport and Youth Mental Health Project
Layer Suite
Knife crime continues to be a prominent news story. The Ben Kinsella Trust, a leading UK anti-knife crime charity, will:
- Discuss this pernicious problem
- Describe the current national picture.
- Utilise evidence from the Essex VVU to give a localised picture
In this workshop you will hear from young people from Essex sharing their personal experiences of the impact knife crime, and the fear of knife crime, has on them on a daily basis, and the implications for their lives, along with some discussion around practical steps we might be able to take to make knife crime less prevalent.
Delivered by Tom Jewkes from Ben Kinsella Trust, Tom Paget from Reach Group
Dick Graham Suite
Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) can be much more exciting than spreadsheets and pie charts. This interactive workshop explores four creative and engaging ways to capture the impact of provisions and voice of the young people.
The workshop will explore:
- Ripple Effects Mapping
- Graffiti art
- Music and spoken word poetry
- Plus an opportunity to hear from attendees on other MEL processes.
Delivered by Dr Rowena Hawkins, Julian Graffiti Artist, Quinton Green youth mentor and spoken word artist and Lizzie Hart , Everybody Loves Music group
Players Lounge
Essex VVU will highlight the work they undertake across Southend, Essex and Thurrock in partnership with local statutory agencies and the third sector, in tackling Serious Youth Violence.
The VVU will:
- Share their vital role across Greater Essex
- Their programme of work, that encompasses a wide range of interventions including sport and activity.
- Discuss and reflect on the earlier evidence provided by the YEF, and the VVU / ECYVS Listening Project, which both support sport and activity as one positive method of intervening early with young people.
Delivered by members of the Essex Violence and Vulnerability Unit
Layer Suite
Knife crime continues to be a prominent news story. The Ben Kinsella Trust, a leading UK anti-knife crime charity, will:
- Discuss this pernicious problem
- Describe the current national picture.
- Utilise evidence from the Essex VVU to give a localised picture
In this workshop you will hear from young people from Essex sharing their personal experiences of the impact knife crime, and the fear of knife crime, has on them on a daily basis, and the implications for their lives, along with some discussion around practical steps we might be able to take to make knife crime less prevalent.
Delivered by Tom Jewkes from Ben Kinsella Trust, Tom Paget from Reach Group
Vice Presidents Lounge
Spotting the signs of radicalisation in youth interventions and sport and activity settings.
Presenters will:
- Outline some radical ideologies, organisations and extremist theories
- Discuss proscribed organisations and affiliations
- Examine some signs that a young person may be vulnerable to radicalisation
- Provide signposting and advice for effective safeguarding.
Delivered by Caroline Ellis ECC Lead for Community Safety, Tony Willis, Andrew Lowing ECC Equalities and Partnerships
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