Building on Friendships to Create Safety Podcast: Intervention for Children at Risk of Exploitation and Their Peers to Build Safety – Trauma Informed Pathfinder (March 2022)

Summary: The link to a podcast for the Contextualised Safeguarding Network concerning their group work intervention with children at risk of exploitation and their friendship group to build safety

 

 

Description:

The Trauma Informed Pathfinder lead by East Sussex youth offending team have participated in a podcast on building on friendships to create safety (March 2022) for the Contextualised Safeguarding Network.
The podcast shares an example of how relationship-based approaches can be used when working with a peer group at risk of criminal exploitation.

 

The trauma informed pathfinder discussed how they brought a group of children at risk of criminal exploitation (known to the service) and their peer group together at a youth club. This way of working marked a shift from seeing friendships between children engaged in criminal or harmful activity as a source of risk, to building on the strengths of those friendships within the peer group to create safety.

 

 

Contact:

Organisation: East Sussex Youth Justice Service
Name: Nicola Maxwell
Email: Nicola.Maxwell@eastsussex.gov.uk