Training, Capacity and Support Project
The Training, Capacity and Support Project is part of the City of Dublin Youth Services programme support team. We work collaboratively with staff and Boards of Management of UBU Your Place Your Space funded projects and service, to identify training needs, and provide support to them, to access relevant training to meet these needs and develop and enhance staff skills and organisational capacity.
This work involves collaboration with training providers to meet these objectives as well as creating opportunities for youth project and service staff to engage in discussion and peer led ‘best practice’ workshops. This facilitates the sharing of what works well and learning from the vast array of skills and experience across the sector.
Training, Capacity and Support in action
In recent months, youth workers have participated in a variety of training and practice sharing events thorough our Training and Capacity Support Programme.
Some of the areas of training/facilitated conversations with youth workers have included:
- Challenging the “far right narrative” and Transforming Hate training (collaboration with the National Youth Council of Ireland)
- Gender based violence
- Creating safe LGBTQ+ spaces in projects and services (in collaboration with Belong To)
- Training in working with neuro-diverse young people (in partnership with As I Am)
- Drug and vaping use awareness training
- Social inequality and possible youth work responses
- Trauma informed practice
- Youth mental health first aid
- Leadership training (in collaboration with City of Dublin ETB)
Planning ahead
The months ahead promise to be another busy period for the Training, Capacity and Support Project with further training areas being planned and best practice sessions being identified by youth workers on topics including:
- Outreach and detached youth work
- Mental health of young people
- Grooming of young people into criminality
- Sexual health for young people
- Gender-based violence
- Socially engaged programmes
- Boards of Management and staff training on the (the Charities (Amendment) Act 2024)
- Human Resources (HR) policy development
