Youth Engagement
Youth Engagement is at the heart of the Shaddywood Project. Through engaging with the Youths the Shaddywood Project aims to achieve the following:
- Reduce guns, gangs, weapons and drugs crime
- Reform and train young people
- Prevent conflict and tension between rival gangs
- Improve understanding of gangs and youth crime
- Prevent young people from emulating violence glamorised in movies
- Capacity build young people & support young people in developing careers
- Improve the trust and confidence between young people and the police
- Save lives
Phase 1 - SW1 Crime Film Challenge
- 12 structured workshops
- Initial engagement, educational and relationship building
- Screening 12 gangster movies
- Facilitator-led discussions after each film screening
- Inclusion of police officers from the local SNT (Safer Neighbourhood Team) in the workshops and discussions
- Food at the end as an incentive for participating
- Trips (cinema, go-carting etc)
- Venue: Youth Centers (parachuting tactic)
- Final Dissemination Event
- 2 groups, 6 workshops (total 12 workshops)
- Specialist topics i.e., Structure of the MPS, Pathology, Victims of Crime etc
- Facilitator-led discussion/debate at the end of the workshop
- Cinema Trips
- 6 Weeks gym passes
- Food at the end of each workshop
- Inclusion of the Safer Neighborhood Team
- Final Dissemination Event
- Aimed to empower and capacity build 20 hard-to-reach young people so that future they can replicate the Shaddywood Project.
- Phase 1 = Capacity building training programme - 2days indoor intensive capacity building course (mainly theoretical)
- Phase 2 = Weekend intensive residential capacity building (mainly practical)