1. Enforcement or Desistance: Harnessing local energy to deal with gangs and youth crime

2. Welcome! Aims of the day: Understand what EUGANGS project is and aims to achieve Understand better the nature of and response to youth crime in our communities Explore strategies for closer police-agency- community co-operation in finding solutions to youth crime

3. EUGANGS PROJECT Develops a level 3 course and qualification specifically for people working with and living with gangs and youth crime Covers: Interpersonal communication Safe working Policy Social factors Social psychology

4. EU-wide

5. Current issues in UK Lack of understanding / skills Youths entering gangs at younger age Drives not satisfied by other means than joining gang Labelling / stigma Challenge the glamour Focus shift away from punishment, towards prevention and consider the whole Listen to kids as individuals

6. Current issues ‘More needs to be offered in the form of training programmes for work, opportunities in the community for social interaction between different groups’ ‘Facilitate the thirst for knowledge rather than dictate what has to be taught to fulfil an exam question that will never be used again.’

7. EUGANGS & Co-construction

8. Co-construction Greater understanding Solutions YOUR EXPERTISE THEORY / EVIDENCE / TRAINER EXPERTISE COLLEAGUES’ EXPERTISE

9. Desistance and EUGANGS Dr Martin Glynn (BCU) Since desistance is about discovering agency, interventions need to encourage and respect self- determination; this means working with offenders not on them (McCulloch 2005; McNeill 2006). Desistance and social factors Desistance and psychology Desistance and safe working Desistance and interpersonal communication Desistance and policy / the law

10. Joe Jackson Wolverhampton Citizens 4 Change

11. My journey!

12. Two perspectives Beginnings of a youth crime issue in Walsall Rise of serious gang crime in Wolverhampton

13. The nature of the issue In your tables discuss the following: What is the nature of the problems described here? What solutions would you suggest? Is there an example in your group of a strategy that has worked particularly well in similar situations?

14. Plugging into the matrix https://youtu.be/uAXtO5dMqEI

15. EUGANGS – Taster sessions

16. Taster sessions 1 – Colin Isham – Emotional Intelligence – HB103 2 – Amanda Wood – Supportive Action – HB201 3 – Keith Blackburn – Mentoring – HB 210 4 – Joseph Jackson – Social Factors – HB211

17. Plenary Joseph Jackson

18. So what have we learned? Let’s revisit the issues and solutions we described in the keynote session In the light of what you have learned in your taster sessions is there anything we can add about the nature of the problems we and our young people face? how we can work better to address these problems?

19. EUGANGS – Where next? Colin Isham

20. Where we are now 8 trainers trained Pilot course face-to-face and online completes in December Opportunities for piloting online materials and face-to-face sessions in the spring Need to reach strategic links / decision makers / budget holders! Main courses at Walsall College and UCB from September 2016

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