CDYSB provides customised training and mentoring for management committees and individuals to ensure best practice in all areas of youth service provision.

CDYSB provides a full range of in-service training workshops and courses for youth workers , leaders and those working with young people.

Our training team/ liaison officers will discuss, on request, your needs and an appropriate trainer or mentor will be allocated to you.

Training will be customised to meet the needs of the group and may include:

• codes of good practice
• child protection
• management skills
• specific or emerging needs as identified by youth workers and management committees.

The role of the mentor is to provide regular advice and support to the management committee over a defined period of time. The mentoring programme is offered as a support and is designed to meet the needs of the committee or an individual youth worker or team.

Child protection
CDYSB is committed to the provision of quality youth services in a manner that ensures the safety and welfare of young people and those who work with them. To facilitate this, CDYSB provides a range of training and support services to youth workers. In the area of child protection CDYSB offers workers:

• Up to date training
• Designated person support

Developmental support programme
A developmental support programme is available to management committees for staff support.

The service provides an external resource person who meets on a regular basis with an individual youth worker.

The resource person works with the youth worker in a supportive and developmental way to:

• assist in monitoring and evaluating their work performance
• develop new learning based on a greater awareness of their own strengths and abilities.

Youth worker support service
Support is offered to a youth worker who has been newly employed or is taking up a new area of responsibility and who requires specific training or support around a particular competence.

External supervision support programme
This pilot programme is offered initially to a limited number of projects. The service provides a management committee with a resource person who will, on behalf of the committee, undertake a line management role by providing supervision to the youth workers individually, and as a team, and report back to the management committee.