Youth Worker Training Essentials Day - 09/03/2026

Please note: Your booking won't be accepted until you provide all your details. We need all your information, to be able to ensure we have a space for you.

Youth Worker Training Essentials Day

📅 9 March 2026 | 📍 In-Person

⚠️ Important booking information:
Your booking will not be confirmed until all required details are completed. We need this information to ensure your place is secured.

Join us for a practical, inspiring and interactive training day designed specifically for youth workers. This event offers a range of fun, relevant and hands-on workshops that can be easily integrated into your day-to-day practice with young people.

All sessions are shaped around the needs and voices of young people and align with Scotland’s National Youth Work Outcomes and Skills Framework, supporting you to build skills, confidence and positive outcomes across a range of settings.

By attending, you will:

• Build a toolkit of interactive resources and techniques to explore relevant and creative topics with young people
• Learn how to adapt your approach for different settings (school, community, outreach) and for different ages and abilities
• Grow confidence in delivering engaging, empowering youth work sessions
• Build on your existing skills, knowledge and practice
• Network, share ideas and learn from other youth workers

Welcome & Registration

Workshop 1 – Choose One

Choice 1: Understanding Young People’s Mental Health & Wellbeing
Build confidence to explore mental health through positive, practical and fun activities that raise awareness, reduce stigma and promote early prevention.

Choice 2: Working Together – A Team Approach to Youth Work
Explore effective team dynamics using the National Youth Work Induction Checklist, including:

• Skills Audit: What do you bring to the team?
• Roles and responsibilities
• Support and supervision
• Teamwork
• Leadership

Lunch Break

Workshop 2 – Choose One

Choice 1: Relationship Exploitation
An interactive workshop exploring the complexities of teenage relationship exploitation, supporting workers to recognise signs and respond effectively.

Choice 2: Stand-Up & Speak-Out – Tackling Bullying in Youth Work
Develop skills to spot the signs of bullying, start meaningful conversations, and support young people to stand up to bullying both online and offline.

Break

Workshop 3 – Choose One

Choice 1: More Than a Period – Mental Health, Energy & the Menstrual Cycle
Build confidence and help normalise conversations around menstruation and menstrual health. A must-attend session for all male workers.

Choice 2: Stop-Action Film Making
Learn the basics of stop-motion animation using simple materials and tablets or cameras. Plan, build and create your own story—by the end of the session, you’ll have made a short film to take away.

Finish & Head Home

• Workshop choices must be selected at the time of booking
• Workshop options may be subject to change
  
  We will make every effort to ensure this space is safe and inclusive for all, please let us know if there is anything we can do to ensure this is a positive learning experience for you.
  Our funding supports training to be delivered to Residents of Scotland only.
  

Youth worker training is in high demand – please help us support youth workers to access the training and development they deserve with these simple steps:

1. Tell us if you cannot attend more than 24hrs in advance. This allows us to free up the space for another youth worker (many sessions are oversubscribed) and means you will avoid being charged the £25 fee for late-notice cancellation or non-attendance.

1. Check you can join with camera and microphone. Our online training is engaging, interactive and discussion-based – not a webinar format. Our members regularly tell us this is better learning and we are confident you will gain more.

1. Eventbrite sends you all your information by email. You will receive your ticket at booking and be sent a reminder – with any login details if online – approximately 24hrs in advance. If there are materials and handouts, your facilitator will send these too.

Thank you for using our training and helping us to continue supporting the needs of our members and community-based youth work.

CANCELLATION POLICY:

A £25 non-attendance fee will be applied where cancellation has not been received in advance of the event (24 hours before the event).

Please note: if you have been charged a fee to attend this training, training fees are non-refundable, where a cancellation has not been received in advance of the event starting.

You/your group will then receive an invoice.

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