The Trafford Housing Trust Youth Team's mission is to provide
children and young people opportunities and activities in the heart
of our neighbourhoods that allow them to actively participate in
building and maintaining better communities.
We believe that joint planning and working with community and
statutory service providers is extremely important if we are to
achieve our goals. Our partners include:
- The Youth Service
- The Youth Offending Service
- Children & Young People's Service
- Greater Manchester Police
- Connexions
- Positive Activities for Young People
- The Probation Service
- Community Groups
- Schools
- Other key stakeholders
Working with partners, the Youth Team objectives are
to:
- Allow young people to take the lead in projects whilst
providing support and additional resources
- Build relationships between young people and between
generations
- Consult with groups of young people to find out what they
want
- Design and run projects based on their express needs
- Allow young people to develop, design and plan
activities
- Allow young people to evaluate the effectiveness of the
programme
By working with young people in the Trafford Community we
also want to:
- Help reduce anti-social behaviour, youth nuisance/presence and
groups/gangs of young people hanging about estates
- Help reduce youth crime because individuals are actively
engaged in meaningful activities
- Improve community cohesion due to intergenerational
projects
- Reduce the fear associated with crime due to the positive
contributions of young people being highlighted to the
community
- Increase educational and employment prospects for young people
as a result of the programme
At Trafford Housing Trust the Youth Team recognises that for
young people to develop they need the input of their community; for
society to have a vision of what it wants for its young people; for
young people to grow up in communities and not programmes or
projects; adults need to work in partnership with young people in
an effort to promote youth development.
To effectively combine youth development with community
development, the Youth Team will:
- Develop young people's connections to their own identity,
culture and community
- Recognise that young people are assets to their community
- Engage with young people as community leaders on issues that
matter to and directly affect them
- Bring young people and adults together to work as equal
partners
The Youth Team ties activities into the Government's 2005 Every
Child Matters Programme, encouraging young people in Trafford to be
healthy, stay safe, to enjoy and achieve, to make a positive
contribution and also achieve economic well-being.
For more information about the Youth Team, please email
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