Leap provides young people and professionals with the support they need to challenge conflict in themselves and their communities

Leap provides conflict resolution programmes

Specialist training for young people and professionals ... Leap works nationally with young people aged 11 to 25, helping them to understand, manage and resolve the everyday conflict in their lives, and supporting them to become role models and leaders of positive change.

• Training for young people: Leap offers a variety of training programmes for young people around peer mediation, preventing knife crime, gangs and group offending, preventing racist violence, and sport and conflict resolution. Leap also offers young people professional training through our Quarrel Shops (to become peer facilitators), our accredited Leadership Programme and a 9-month part-time Young Trainers programme. We also run ‘PeerLink’, a national network where young people can share ideas and experiences.

• Training for frontline professionals working with young people: Leap offers a range of professional practice development training courses for adults that enable them to better support young people in dealing with conflict. Two of our most popular training courses are ‘Working with Challenging Behaviour’ and ‘Working with Gangs’, which have been developed following extensive action research. Other training courses include ‘Playing with Fire’ ‘Working with Anger and Aggression’, ‘Working with Identity and Prejudice’ and ‘Young Women and Self Esteem’.

• Capacity building for organisations: This section outlines some of our more tailored bespoke work with schools, communities, prisons, police and corporates that explores challenging issues pertinent to the lives of their young clients. These programmes are often multi-agency, for example, the successful partnership work with gangs in Strathclyde.

• Accredited learning: The Leap Academy, launched in 2008, gives young people and Youth and Community professionals the opportunity to gain youth and conflict qualifications, including higher education learning.

• Publications and resources: Leap has a range of publications, training courses, resource packs and manuals that are all created from proprietary action research.

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