Youth programmes

Working directly with young people lies at the heart of what Leap Confronting Conflict does. It’s where we started; it’s where the depth of our learning comes from.

Working directly with young people lies at the heart of what Leap Confronting Conflict does. It’s where we started; it’s where the depth of our learning comes from.

We work in the community running Youth Leadership and Peer Trainer projects and targeted intensive work with groups at risk of being involved in violence and crime.

We develop young people to become conflict practitioners in the Young Trainers Project.

We run PeerLink, the country’s only support network offering resources, awards, training, website and events for young mediators and peer trainers or leaders.

We work in secondary schools, with students and staff, supervisors and support staff, head teachers and senior management teams, transforming how schools think about and deal with conflict and violence.

We work with young people involved in gang activity, harnessing the energy and companionship of the gang into sources of new leadership and learning.

Our newest area of action research, Crossing Frontlines, is exploring identity and community, looking at the challenging areas of knife crime, racism, territorialism, and intergenerational and faith conflicts, trialing new ways of working and developing young community leaders.

We are delivering sustainable youth projects in areas of Yorkshire and London through the Pathfinder Youth Project – training and supporting young community leaders and volunteer mediators in schools and youth centres.

In Leap Youth Programmes young participants become leaders, volunteers, mediators and problem solvers. They gain skills, certificates and confidence and can progress into education, training or employment. Local communities benefit from a reduction in youth conflict and violence. Young people’s lives can be changed.

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