Youth workers seek to work with young people to promote their social and personal development and to encourage young people to have their own voice in their communities and within our society. Youth work is about young people being involved in their own active decision making, which starts with making a choice as to whether to engage with the youth work process itself. It is entirely voluntary.
What is Youth work?
Youth workers seek to work with young people to promote their social and personal development and to encourage young people to have their own voice in their communities and within our society. Youth work is about young people being involved in their own active decision making, which starts with making a choice as to whether to engage with the youth work process itself. It is entirely voluntary.
Youth workers seek to build trust and to offer safe spaces for young people to explore their own identity, make informed choices, build resilience, and have fun! Torbay Youth Service utilises the National Youth Agency youth work curriculum in our work with young people as part of our informal education processes.
Our targeted youth work offer – by referral only through Family Help
Torbay Youth Service has a largely targeted youth work offer, which means it is targeted to the needs of young people who may welcome some youth work support on a 1 to 1 basis or to have a youth worker arrange to visit them to discuss what groups and activities may be on offer in Torbay.
Please contact us with any queries and we will direct you to the relevant youth work team member by emailing us at youthservice@torbay.gov.uk or call us and leave a message for the Youth Service team during office hours on 01803 208100.
