Youth Worker Training Essentials Day - 27/02/2026

Youth Worker Training Essentials Day - 25/01/2026

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 27th February 2026

In-person - Dumbartonshire

Venue TBC

A day designed to offer a range of fun, relevant and interactive activities that you can integrate into your existing practice with young people. All workshops are designed around the needs of young people and reflect Scotland’s National Youth Work Outcomes and Skills Framework, building skills and improving outcomes for all our young people.

· Build a toolkit of interactive resources and techniques to support the delivery and exploration of a range of relevant and creative topics.

· Learn how to easily adapt your toolkit and skill set to different settings (school, community, outreach), different ages and abilities of young people.

· Build confidence to deliver engaging and empowering sessions.

· Build on current skills, knowledge and practice to improve outcomes for your young people.

· Network and share practice with other youth workers.

Schedule
9.30-10.00am Welcome and registration

Workshop 1 - 10.00am-12noon

1. Understanding your community: A creative and practical way to capture the assets, personal and emotional stories of your community.
2. LGBTQI+ Awareness: Empowering youth workers to create safer, affirming and inclusive spaces for queer young people.
3. Stand-up & Speak-Out: Tackling Bullying in Youth Work: Empower yourself to spot the signs, start the conversations, and support young people to stand up against bullying online and offline.

12noon-12.30pm Lunch Break

Workshop 2 - 12.30-2.30pm

1. Keep it real - Promoting Youth Participation: Exploring what meaningful youth participation means and activities to make it happen.
2. Unmasking Masculinity Workshop: Develop the confidence to open honest discussion on toxic masculinity using hands on examples and interactive tools to navigate this complex and divisive topic.
3. Safe social media: Exploring the impact and influence that social media has on young people and how to take a harm reduction approach.

2.30-2.45pm Break

Workshop 3 - 2.45-4.45pm

1. Young Peoples Mental Health and Wellbeing: Increase understanding of young people’s mental health and wellbeing. Have tools and techniques at hand to increase confidence and awareness around mental health. Reduce stigma and promote preventative strategies
2. Find Your Voice through Improvisation: Use drama techniques to engage young people, spark discussion, and explore real-life issues in a creative space. No previous experience is required.
3. Creating a Stop Action Film: This hands-on workshop introduces youth workers to stop-motion animation as a simple and engaging creative tool for working with young people. Participants learn the basics of planning, filming, and animating short films using low-cost materials and accessible technology.

Please select your workshop choices when signing up - Please note: 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.

2. Find Your Voice through Improvisation: Use drama techniques to engage young people, spark discussion, and explore real-life issues in a creative space. No previous experience is required.
3. Creating a Stop Action Film: This hands-on workshop introduces youth workers to stop-motion animation as a simple and engaging creative tool for working with young people. Participants learn the basics of planning, filming, and animating short films using low-cost materials and accessible technology.

3. Safe social media: Exploring the impact and influence that social media has on young people and how to take a harm reduction approach.

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.
2. 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.
3. 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:

Members:

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.

Non-members:

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 as a non-member groups/organisation, training fees will be non-refundable, where a cancellation has not been received in advance of the event starting.

You/your group will then receive an invoice.