Youth Action for Change Workshops

The Change Project delivers Youth Action for Change Workshops (YACW) in schools and to the sporting community, to youths and to professionals, teacher, coaches and tutors. By working with youths, we aim to equip young people with the understanding and skills to identify when behaviour, either their own or that of others, is abusive and could potentially become illegal. Our goal is to provide the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for respectful and consensual relationships, empowering young people to build successful and fulfilling futures.

Youth and Young People Workshop: Equip. Empower. Act.

The interactive workshops can include the following topics:

• Healthy relationships
• Consent
• UK legalities
• Patriarchy, misogyny, and stereotypes
• Harassment
• Bystander intervention

Professionals Workshop:

These sessions provide professionals, teachers, tutors and coaches with the knowledge to have the confidence to support young people on healthy relationships, consent, UK legalities, patriarchy, misogyny, and stereotypes.

The interactive workshops cover topics on:

• Healthy and unhealthy relationships (looking for the signs that their youths may be in a healthy or unhealthy relationship)
• Unhealthy relationship and domestic abuse
• Domestic Abuse and sport
• Violence against women and girls (VAWG) and what causes VAWG
• Warning signs and red flags
• Importance of talking about relationships with young people
• Role modelling and positive behaviour
• Consent
• Legalities
• 4 key steps to help you to identify and respond appropriately to possible abuse and/or neglect

By working with the young people, we aim to change harmful ideologies and attitudes in relation to relationships, consent, patriarchy and misogyny. Our feedback tracks changes in ideologies along with efficacy of the workshop.

Download full feedback here.

If you are interested in hearing more about the workshops, please contact clare.whalley@thechangeportfolio.org