This course provides an understanding of adopting a public health approach to violence reduction and building confidence in applying it in real-world violence reduction scenarios. The course also provides an insight into risk and protective factors for involvement in serious violence, termed as ‘influential factors’, highlighting the importance of addressing these factors.
This course provides an understanding of what a ‘Child First’ approach is, the evidence that underpins this approach and how you can apply this approach in your own role or organisation.
This course enables learners to understand, create, and use a Theory of Change to plan, deliver, and evaluate interventions effectively. It provides practical tools and examples to clarify how change happens, link activities to outcomes and impacts, and identify key assumptions and risks. By the end, learners will be better equipped to use a Theory of Change to support strategic thinking, improve evaluation, and strengthen the effectiveness of their work.
Designed to completed following the Theory of Change course, the purpose of this course is to give anyone involved in projects or programmes the confidence to understand, plan, and use monitoring and evaluation effectively. It helps learners see the difference between monitoring and evaluation, know why they matter, and apply simple frameworks and methods.
This course provides an understanding of what inclusive engagement is, why it matters and how it can be applied in practice. The course also explores the importance of taking a trauma informed approach, how it can be applied in practice and the importance of language, power and positionality in engagement.
In its simplest terms Joint Enterprise means people can be held responsible for a crime, even if they didn’t directly commit it. The course will explore how this works, its real-life impact and how you can support young people who may find themselves in such situations.
These courses are FREE to access for VRP partners to build knowledge and understanding on the topic area and improve our collective responses to serious violence.
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