Skip to content
  • Detached Youth Work
    A trusted adult
    Completed
    Detached youth work aims to engage with young people ‘where they are at’, providing youth work in non-institutional settings. These settings are usually places that young people have chosen to be, such as on the street, in parks, shopping centres, fast food outlets or other community spaces. Rather than serving children in a youth club,…

    Project name:

    Detached Youth Work

    Funding:

    £110000

    Activity type:

    Mentoring, Positive things to do, Sports programmes

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    Completed
  • National Children’s Bureau
    Trauma-informed practice
    In progress
    Fostering Connections offers training and support to help social work teams, working with young people in foster care, and their foster carers understand and use trauma-informed practices.

    Funding:

    £1,527497

    Activity type:

    Trauma-informed training and service redesign

    Evaluation types:

    Efficacy study
    In progress
  • Ormiston Academies Trust
    A safe, positive place to learn
    In progress
    This project offers five-week placements away from school for children who have behavioural difficulties.

    Funding:

    £716,882

    Activity type:

    Social skills training

    Evaluation types:

    Pilot study
    In progress
  • SHiFT
    Targeted projects
    Completed
    SHiFT works with children who are caught up in or are at risk of harm.

    Project name:

    SHiFT

    Funding:

    £50,000

    Activity type:

    Psychological therapies

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    Completed
  • Multi-site trial: Mentoring
    Multi-site trials
    In progress
    The YEF is funding a feasibility study of a multi-site RCT of grassroots organisations delivering mentoring.

    Project name:

    Mentoring Multi-Site Trial

    Funding:

    £561,496

    Activity type:

    Mentoring

    Evaluation types:

    Feasibility study
    In progress