42nd Street: Using Creative Approaches with a Trauma-Informed Lens

Creativity has this amazing power to help young people express things that are hard to put into words. In this hands-on training, you'll discover how to:

• Use trauma informed creative approaches in various settings
• Understand the connection between creativity and mental health
• Create safe spaces where young people feel comfortable expressing themselves
• Support young people to use creativity to express their voice, connect with themselves and others, sense making, emotional regulation and naming emotions.
• Develop your own creative skills which in-turn nurture creative mental health tools and skills in young people which they can use throughout their lives.

You'll leave feeling confident about using these approaches in your own work.

Who Are These Training's For?

These trainings are specifically for people from grassroots OR Manchester VCSFE organisations who work with young people aged 11-25 in Manchester. We welcome and want to make the training more accessible for grassroot organisations first, though this training is for organisations who meet criteria of Manchester VCSFE.

What are grassroots organisations?

These are small groups of individuals who collaborate to improve their community - typically non-profit groups with both paid staff and volunteers, focused on enhancing the social, cultural, and economic wellbeing of community members.

To be eligible for this training, your organisation must meet at least the first two:

• Work with young people aged 11-25
• Be a VCSFE based in Manchester and support young people in Manchester
• Operate as micro-entities, working primarily within a specific area (such as five streets or hyper localities)
• Be established by members of the community
• Have an annual turnover of less than £200,000 per annum and be a micro enterprise (fewer than 10 employees)