Rise Up
Total Investment: £1.7m over three years
Rise Up builds youth practitioners’ skills, confidence, and experience to better support vulnerable young people in London.
Established in 2020, the Rise Up focuses on helping frontline youth practitioners with significant lived experience and commitment to their roles to further develop leadership skills and supported in putting them into practice. More than 250 youth workers will have completed the programme by the end of 2023.
Rise Up is delivered in partnership with London Youth, Leap Confronting Conflict, Clore Social Leadership and Power the Fight and is funded by London’s Violence Reduction Unit.
The programme is delivered as a mix of residential, in-person and online sessions over a five month period.
Rise Up is key to helping frontline youth work practitioners by:
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deepening youth practitioners’ practice, especially in relation to addressing conflict and violence
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developing a wider set of skills to use within their organisations
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strengthening their understanding of the broader political and social context within the youth sector
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increasing youth practitioners’ networks, encouraging participants to forge stronger connections with potential allies.
Participants have reported improvements in:
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having the skills to support young people
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having confidence in their professional abilities
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leadership abilities
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feeling better equipped to reduce conflict amongst young people.
Programme impact
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81%
of participants’ managers agreed that they would recommend Rise Up to other managers.
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83%
of participants’ managers said that participants had developed new skills.
Rise Up helped validate who I was as a youth worker, provide important long-lasting connections with other like-minded professionals and practitioners, but perhaps most importantly, sharpened my leadership skills to become the best youth worker I can be for the young people I work with and support.
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