Dave Wiles who is CEO of Frontier Youth Trust http://www.fyt.org.uk/ has agreed to come to Preston to help run a training seminar style training event on the broad theme of Christian Youth Outreach to street / unchurched / urban kids.
In the evening of Friday November 28th Dave is offering a session aimed at Christian and other paid and unpaid youth workers on
The Future of youth work: feed back and coffee shop style exploration of this theme based on a consultancy that we have carried out around the UK - see http://www.fyt.org.uk/showdetails,pdf,93.htm for the report
The venue and timings to be confirmed
On Saturday November 29th we have a tentative booking for The Salvation Army between 10 and 3pm .
The Programme Will take the form of a training day aimed at the people in training for the proposed Street Pastors team but open to anyone with an interest in Christian youth work or serving and reaching those on the margins of society.
Topics to be covered will probably include;
Understanding and Responding to challenging behaviour, including: social and personal context, understanding deeper issues, practical responses, policy needs - a lot of this will be based on Jo and Nigel Pimlott's Grove booklet on this subject.
Young people and Spirituality - looking at models to understand, ways of responding, communication skills, resources that might help...
The events are being organised by Preston Christian Action network working in partnership with other relevant agencies such as Street Pastors and Preston Youth for Christ. For further information email pcan@maister-smith.fsnet.co.uk
PCAN (Chair) Greg Smith
34 Broadgate.
Preston PR1 8DU
Phone no. 01772 827987 / 555425
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