Depaul UK Education Programme (KS3-KS5)
Workshop Provider: Depaul UK
Workshop/Assembly Themes & Tags: Homelessness, CCE, CSE, Grooming, Healthy relationships, RSE, PSHE, SEND, County Lines, Mental Health, Conflict management, Personal Development, CPD, and Careers & Life Skills
Age Suitability: Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Key Stage 5
Can your workshop/assembly be delivered to schools online?: No
Delivery Locations by Regions: South East England, London & Home Counties, North West England, Yorkshire & Humber, North East England
Workshop/Assembly Summary:
We deliver bold, interactive and engaging workshops to young people in schools, colleges and other education settings, including pupil referral units and alternative provision from key stage 3 through to key stage 5.
Often, young people when faced with having to leave home, don’t know where to turn for support, and are excluded from official statistics. Hidden homelessness is common, with many young people sofa-surfing, staying in temporary accommodation, or unsafe places and at increased risk of harm, abuse and exploitation.
Additional Information:
Our programme
We offer a range of workshops as detailed below for young people and training for professionals, all delivered by skilled and experienced facilitators and all able to support with delivering relevant parts of the PSHE and RSE curriculum for each key stage along with supporting with Ofsted requirements, particularly around safeguarding young people.
Whole Year Workshops
In collaboration with the BRIT school, we have created a series of engaging and hard-hitting films – Choices, Missing and Moving On, which provide the basis for our whole-year workshops and all tailored to the different needs and risks young people are faced with as they move through key stage 3,4 and 5.
These one hour workshops are designed for large groups of young people in assembly style-settings and are fully interactive, energetic and delivering key messages around youth homelessness, healthy relationships, exploitation, responding to risk and making safer choices. They can also be tailored for smaller groups where required.
Extended workshops
Each of our whole year workshops can be extended to be delivered in two hour workshops, enabling more in-depth discussion and exploration of a range of issues and risks raised in Choices, Missing and Moving on.
Targeted Workshops
We offer a series of four workshops, each one hour-long, aimed at groups of 15-20 young people who are identified as vulnerable. This covers emotional literacy and wellbeing, healthy relationships, managing conflict and making safer choices. We are flexible in how we can deliver these depending on your requirements and work in partnership with education settings to reach young people most at risk.
“I was able to speak openly in a friendly and non-judgemental atmosphere. It really helped to be able to speak about emotions and thoughts, which I don’t usually get the opportunity to do.” Year 12 student, Burnside College
Professionals Training
We offer a half day training session aimed at supporting professionals to identify young people at risk of youth homelessness, understand young people’s housing rights and responsibilities, recognise and respond to related safeguarding issues and have the skills and knowledge to effectively support young people to prevent youth homelessness.
Testimonials:
“I now feel more confident to advocate for our young people in relation to youth homelessness.”
—Staff member, Croydon College
“I was able to speak openly in a friendly and non-judgemental atmosphere. It really helped to be able to speak about emotions and thoughts, which I don’t usually get the opportunity to do.”
—Year 12 student, Burnside College
“People need to go into schools to talk about it. If someone had come to my school when I was younger, I might not have gone through what I did.”
—Max, 21, who experienced family breakdown and slept rough
