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OTHER PROGRAMMES Young People involved with the team can take part in a variety of activities as part of their court orders. The programmes are designed to either enable the young person to give something back to the community in the form of reparation or to divert them from offending or to expand their horizons. Examples of these types of programmes
are displayed here: Many of our young people demonstrate their remorse by writing letters of apology. |
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Trying to repair some of the harm caused by their actions is a major part of the work done by a young person who is involved with the Youth Offending Team. There are many ways this can be done and a large number of organisations throughout Calderdale are assisting us with this work. |
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National Trust at Hardcastle Crags This gallery shows our young people assisting the National Trust in running a craft workshop for people with disabilities. The workshop took place at Hardcastle Crags, a Calderdale beauty spot in Hebden Bridge. Our young people helped to make sure that everything possible was done to make the event a success for all involved. |
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| Tree Planting / Environmental Improvement Not all reparative activites are done in groups. This gallery shows a young people working individually, planting trees on local farmland, helping to ensure that the beautiful Calder Valley remains beautiful. All reparation work is supervised by an adult. |
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The West Yorkshire Fire Brigade Many young people are with the Youth Offending Team as a result of their involvement in car crime, motoring offences or arson. The Fire Brigade are often involved in picking up the pieces of these incidents. The West Yorkshire Fire Brigade are working with the Youth Offending Team to educate young people and highlight the danger that their behaviour can cause. This gallery depicts an exercise held by the Brigade with our young people involved as "casualties". It also shows our young people cleaning fire engines. |
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Many young people drift into crime as a result of non constructive use of their time. The Youth Offending Team tries to provide interesting and challenging activities for young people to channel their energies into. We are aware that this can be controversial and can be seen as rewarding bad behaviour. Young people are subject of a thorough assessment before they are selected for diversionary activities to ensure this doesn't happen. |
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Rock Climbing The Youth Offending Team work closely with PC Chris Roe, the West Yorkshire Police Youth Services Officer for Calderdale. He is a qualified mountaineer and canoeing instructor. This gallery depicts a rock climbing training day held by Chris and members of the Youth Offending Team's Arrest Referral Team. The Arrest Referral Team works mainly with young people who have not been convicted of any offence but are considered to be at risk of offending. |
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For a variety of reasons, many of our young people have a very limited view of the world. They are often stuck in situations they see no way out of. The Youth Offending Team believes this is a significant factor in offending behaviour. We endeavour to introduce young people to different attitudes and provide alternate routes for them to follow through life. Many of our programmes include an element of education, enrichment and vocational qualifications. |
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The Book Project Reading is an activity that most of us take for granted. If we were unable to read, we could not function in the modern world. For a lot of our young people reading is an unexplored country. For a variety of reasons they never learned to read at school or if they did, they were never shown to value it. Many young people have no access to books at home and lack the confidence to walk into a public library. The Youth Offending Team use books in their work with young people to develop literacy. More importantly books are used to broaden horizons; to show young people that there is a wider world out there. On the right are examples of some of the printed books our young people are reading. Below them are electronic books that you can download and print to read at your leisure. |
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Storytelling The Youth Offending Team believe in the value of storytelling and are developing programmes using this technique. Our Referral Order Coordinator, Christine McMahon is known internationally in this field and the Youth Justice Board (the government body responsible for all Youth Offending Teams in the country) have consulted her in the production of a storytelling resource pack. We have developed an online Story Library . Here you will find a selection of stories to tell each other. |
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