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Youth Outreach Project

Youth Outreach Project. 2019. Introduction. The majority of the presentation will focus on young people 16-25, particularly high risk young people The majority of the presentation will focus on young men It will be based on experiences from clients and workers at NHYC.

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Youth Outreach Project

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  1. Youth Outreach Project 2019

  2. Introduction • The majority of the presentation will focus on young people 16-25, particularly high risk young people • The majority of the presentation will focus on young men • It will be based on experiences from clients and workers at NHYC

  3. Aims and Objectives YOP • Reduce re-offending pan London • Enable young people to move from NEET to EET • Reduce nature/violence of offending • Improve communication skills and engagement • - Improve relationships, decrease isolation and increase safety • - Offer safe and stable housing relocation

  4. What we do • Deliver 1-1 services in the community • Support and encourage young people to engage with services at NHYC • Work in prison 1-1 and on the wings, Why?

  5. Our approach to Risk- the 1 to 10 • ‘all life involves risk, and the young, the elderly and the vulnerable are exposed to additional risks and to risks they are less well equipped than others to cope with…the emphasis must be on sensible risk appraisal, not striving to avoid all risk, whatever the price, but instead seeking a proper balance and being able to and willing to tolerate manageable or acceptable risks as the price appropriately to be paid in order to achieve some other good… • What good is making someone safer if it merely makes them miserable’ • Lord Justice Manby, 2007

  6. Serious Youth Violence • Update and our approach • 200, 000 homicides among youth 10–29 years of age /year, 43% of homicides globally • Homicide is the fourth leading cause of death in people aged 10-29 years • 83% of these homicides involve male victims (86% in UK) • For each young person killed, many more sustain injuries requiring hospital treatment • When not fatal, has a serious impact on a person's physical, psychological and social functioning. • (Source, NHS)

  7. An increase? Why?

  8. Public health, the press

  9. Why? • Lack of good quality housing? • Benefits being cut/ families struggling? • Failure of education system? • Lack of community? • Issues of identity? • Lack of community services/ youth centres? • Youth services budget cuts? • Social Media? • Music? • Funding cuts? • Poverty? • Policing?

  10. Housing • Challenges universally in housing and homelessness • Housing for offenders is a massive issue – in 2018 Ministry of Justice figures showed over 100,000 prisoners had left prison to unstable and unsettled accommodation • For young people, wanting to get released this is even more complicated, data is not reflective • Impact of criminal records • Housing for young people impacted by serious youth violence adds another level of complexity • Applying from prison, HRA

  11. Those who can stay/ return to borough • Case study – recent incident (April 2019) • Being a victim of serious youth violence does not make you in priority need, regardless of the seriousness of the injuries or the risk, case study DD • Previous convictions • Associations and being seen • Immediate action- bed and breakfast

  12. Those who cannot stay • Are we just moving the problem? • Case example MK, DD and KD • No local connection • Reciprocals • Pan London Scheme • Hostels returning to borough contracts • Specific problem for care leavers • Re-offending and loneliness

  13. Governor: what you need to do to survive here is just not get involved…Prisoner: Gov, that’s like telling a carrot not to get involved in a stew A life Inside- A prisoners Notebook, Erwin James (Served life for Murder)

  14. Legal challenges • Cuts to legal aid • Time of year • Local authorities less adverse to court action • Changes to leaving care legislation • PTSD- significant or not for priority need

  15. Case Study BT

  16. Victims?

  17. Language • Child? • Young person? • Young boys? • Why is this important?

  18. CCE

  19. Case Study • Joseph, 25 • ‘Drug gangs epidemic in our towns: 'County lines' crews double to 1,500 as ringleaders rake in £2.5billion by using children as young as 13 to flood areas with heroin and crack cocaine’ (Daily Mail) • ‘County lines gang boss aged just 17 ‘enslaved two 16-year-old girls and forced them to sell heroin and crack cocaine on the street by stuffing drugs in their bras and mouths’

  20. victim or offender • “X is a man who showed no regard for other people’ • "menacingly violent“ • "truly appalling attitudes to women“ • A manhunt has been launched after a thug pushed a Tube worker onto tracks at a busy London station. • ‘One-eyed 'Zombie Killer knife' wielder jailed after bloody attacks at Carnival’ • "serious violence would have ensued" if the men had not been arrested’ • “They then carried out their joint and fatal attack on him while he was defenceless on the ground. They then ran away.” • ‘The gang had been prowling the park 'looking for victims' • "They were all hooded, they were all carrying knives, and they were all intent on using those knives’ • ‘Violent criminal stabs 4 with zombie knife’ • ‘’after today’s convictions they will be held accountable for their actions and will no longer be free to roam the streets and do as they please.” • A “ferocious” killer who tried to evade capture

  21. Questions…

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