CYT Newsletter Q1 Summer Edition 2014

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Community Youth Teams Q1
Summer Newsletter 2014
Community Youth Teams (CYTs) are a partnership between Sheffield Futures,
Sheffield City Council, South Yorkshire Police and specialist health staff.
We work with 8 - 19 year olds, helping them to improve their lives and make better
choices.
News From the Editor
As the city turned yellow for the Grande Depart of the Tour de France, CYT
staff have been busy delivering the summer holiday programme. Young people are
keeping busy and engaging in a wide range of activities out and about and in youth
centres.
Plus celebrations are in order as CYT win at the Regional & National
Sportivate awards as young people from across the city get ‘Boxing Clever’ a noncontact boxing programme delivered by the Amateur Boxing Association in partnership
with Community Youth Team staff. Young people’s commitment to the project contributed
to the ABA being voted the Regional project winner! Young participant Najmul
Kahar's enthusiasm and mature attitude didn't go unnoticed either as he was voted one
of the top three to take part nationally. Well done to all involved!
Check out the highlights in our next newsletter...
Spotlight on Performance...
First time entrants to the criminal justice system have seen a slight increase
and analysis work is ongoing to examine the reasons for this, together with
the effect of prevention referrals and engagement with Community Youth
Team interventions.
Since April this year, CYT Prevention staff have worked with 271 young
people at risk of offending or anti-social behaviour. At the end of July
2014, the percentage of young people not engaged in education,
employment or training in Sheffield was 7.3%, meaning Sheffield has met its
target and has once again improved on the figures from the same time in
2013.
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Young people at the ARC Project
CYT West - Respect
and Confidence
In May 2014, nine young people
successfully completed the week long
ARC Project (Achieving Respect and
Confidence) at Lowedges Fire Station.
The structured course, delivered by
CYT in partnership with South
Yorkshire Fire Service and the Police,
is aimed at young people involved in anti-
CYT East - Family fun
day
social behaviour and covers a range of
consequence and information sessions
The East Community Youth Team
alongside team building activities such as
held a Family Fun Day on Thursday
squad drills, hose work, basic first aid and
29th May 2014, at Woodthorpe Youth
road traffic safety. The Station Manager
Club. CYT were joined by many
commented that it was one of the best
young people, family, friends and
groups he had seen in a long time, with
other professionals who all enjoyed a
nine unknown individuals coming together
fantastic day, even though it
on day one, working as a team by day
rained! All joined in with various
two; soon demonstrated high levels of
communication skills and team work.
CYT Officer, Moray Mcallister "This was
my first ARC Course and I have been
activities including, arts & crafts,
biscuit decorating, rodeo bull, sumo
suits, pool, table tennis, face painting
and football. Then all tucked into a
assured by all that I was very fortunate in
lovely buffet provided by Steel Inn
having such a group! I found the week
Cafe.
(apart from my realisation that my fitness
levels have dropped significantly!)
One young person said ‘Working with
thoroughly enjoyable, informative and
CYT has made me a better person
entertaining. This was in no small
and has made me realise that
measure down to the attitude and
everyone has a certain moment. CYT
enthusiasm of the students. A great
course, week and group. I cannot wait for
my next and can only hope the group is
half as good as this one!"
have organised the Family Fun Day
for people to make friends and feel
welcome and I have loved every single
minute of working with them. I
John Graham, CYT Worker (and active
couldn’t think of life without them, they
member of the group) "The group not only
have been a fantastic help to
completed the course but excelled in all
me. They have been there for me
areas concerning commitment, behaviour,
when I was going through hard times,
application and endeavour; they were a
they have been a shoulder to cry on
credit to themselves and the CYT service.
and I can’t thank them enough for
On a personal note, the course has
opened my eyes to the valuable work that
the Fire Service do for our communities
and this also impacted on the young
people throughout the week, making them
all stronger as individuals.
what they have done’.
One of the Interchange Counsellors
who joined CYT for the event said ‘A
great event for all who supported the
event and attended. Young people
All parents and staff were very proud and
engaged in a variety of activities and
celebrated their achievements at the Pass
were well supported by staff. Despite
Out Parade. Some of the young people
the weather, staff, young people,
have already signed up to become part of
parents and carers were in great
the Fire Cadet scheme."
spirits and I witnessed a very
supportive and enjoyable day. The
highlight I felt was that staff from multi
agencies worked together as a
team. I experienced a warm and
caring presence from staff, which
inevitably the young people and
families would absorb. Well done to
all involved!’
CYT North has Roots
of Iron!
The Roots of Iron project is an exciting
heritage project being facilitated by
Sheffield Futures, Sheffield City Council,
Sheffield University and Friends of
Wincobank. The aim is for young people
to learn about the local heritage of
Wincobank and develop new skills
through participating in practical
CYT Citywide - Council
CEO visits CYT
workshops.
CYT recently hosted a visit from Chief
The project will run until December
Executive of Sheffield City Council,
2015 with six programmes in total. Each
John Mothersole. John’s visit began with
one is made up of 8 sessions - running
a tour of the newly refurbished ground
with a specific group of young people
floor at Star House, led by CYT City-wide
each involving practical skills-based
Team Manager, Lorraine Jones. Lorraine
activities based on the heritage of the
explained about the range of services on
local area. This will include green
offer in the one-stop shop and he had the
woodworking, experimental archaeology
opportunity to speak with young people
and blacksmithing based on what the
working with training provider, Pet-XI that
young people would like to do. They will
run courses for young people delivered
also be encouraged to record this using
from Star House.
sound, video and photography. There will
also be a reviewing activity - using the
Lorraine said 'It was a pleasure to show
videos and photographs to create a web
John Mothersole around the newly
based resource. We have access to
refurbished ground floor of Sheffield
University’s media suite for this process.
Futures Star House, City Centre One
Stop Shop. John met staff from the
The first programme is running in
City Wide Community Youth Team who
Wincobank Youth Club at Wincobank
deliver Youth Work and Targeted Youth
Chapel. There is a regular group
Support to young people who visit the
participating in the project. The sessions
building with the key aim of helping
that have been completed are:-
and supporting the young people into
Employment, Education and Training.'
Introductory session - Woodland Walk Exploring Wincobank Hill
1 - Woodland Fire Safety – learning how
to create and extinguish woodland fires in
a safe way. Cooking food safely over a
fire.
2 - Basic film production and editing –
creating a short piece of film using a
digital camera and explore video editing
using software.
3 - Basic Blacksmithing – learning how
work with hot metal using an hammer &
anvil, bellows and a charcoal fire.
4 - Banner making – creating painted
banners for the Tour De France event for
public display purposes.
So far the programme has been well
attended and the young people have
thoroughly enjoyed the practical sessions
and have produced some great work
alongside increasing personal skills such
as confidence, teamwork, trust,
communication, commitment, time
keeping and creative thinking. Group
discussions about both the local heritage
in Wincobank and Tour De France have
allowed the young people to increase their
knowledge of these subjects. All in all, this
first programme is running very well and is
on target to complete August 2014.
John then heard a presentation about the
excellent work and outcomes achieved by
CYT, before visiting the West Team at
Sharrow, hosted by CYT West Team
Manager, Geoff Farrimond.
Geoff said “John was really keen to
understand how the team works and how
we link and work effectively with the other
agencies based on the Sharrow site. He
was particularly interested and pleased
to hear about the successful impact
CYT has had addressing the NEET and
Big thanks to all involved for their strong
NOT Known Targets that the City holds
effective team work and contributions and
for young people not engaged in
the young people who have made this
education employment or
project a positive, educational and fun
training. Staff afterwards were pleased
experience for all.
that he had visited and hopefully gained a
more complete insight into the work of the
CYT teams”
Geoff described the variety of multiagency work that takes place between
CYT and partners and the strong local
links that enable CYT to tailor services to
meet the needs of the area. The visit
gave John a sound insight into the work of
CYT and the strength of partnership
working to support positive outcomes for
young people in Sheffield.
And Finally...
CYT Hi5’s organised a fundraising evening to raise money to buy some much needed new
equipment to enable the young people to do some activities over the summer.
The group cycled the Tour De France stage 2 route on exercise bikes on the 3rd of July. They raised
over £500 in sponsorship! Supporters of the Hi5s say a huge thank you to everyone who gave so
generously.
Contact us
North CYT
Ronny Tucker, North CYT Prevention Manager
(Sheffield City Council)
Joanne Holt, North CYT Youth Support Manager
(Sheffield Futures)
Visit: Sorby House, 42 Spital Hill, Sheffield, S4 7LG
Call: 0114 2435597/ 0114 2018600
East CYT
Lisa May, East CYT Prevention Manager
(Sheffield City Council)
Louise Ellison, East CYT Youth Support Manager
(Sheffield Futures)
Visit: Alison Business Centre, 39-40 Alison Cresent, Sheffield S2 1AS
Call: 0114 283 5927
West CYT
Helen Iwan, West CYT Prevention Manager
(Sheffield City Council)
Geoff Farrimond, West CYT Youth Support Manager
(Sheffield Futures)
Visit: Old Sharrow Junior School, South View Road, Sheffield, S7 1DB
Call: 0114 205 7440
Citywide CYT
Lorraine Jones Youth Team Manager
(Sheffield Futures)
John Moloughney, Deputy Community Youth Team Manager
(Sheffield Futures)
Visit: Sheffield Futures, Star House, 43 Division Street, Sheffield, S1 4GE
Call: 0114 201 2935
For further information on any CYT Team email: [email protected] or visit:
www.sheffield.gov.uk/cyt
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