Penificent has a unique approach to highlighting young people’s issues and positively influence change through comics and workshops. Penificent Publishing, address relatable issues in society in a creative way through entertainment and publishing.
Penificent has a unique approach to highlighting young people’s issues and positively influence change through comics and workshops. Penificent Publishing, address relatable issues in society in a creative way through entertainment and publishing.
Welcome to NKBL’s Detached Youth Work Month! In this webinar, we’re chatting with Mary and Shelley from Granton Youth in Edinburgh about getting started with detached youth work.
During lockdown 2020, creative projects were a way to take your mind off the situation and turn a waste of time into a productive activity.
NKBL offers free training to practitioners who want to develop primary prevention sessions with young people. Practitioners can be from a range of disciplines such as police, youth workers, teachers and social workers.
In light of ongoing restrictions, we decided to focus February on detached youth work. Detached youth work is a model of youth work practice targeted at young people on their territory, like streets, parks, and open and shared public spaces.
The schools play, ‘Balisong’, produced in partnership with Fast Forward and Strange Town Theatre, has been shortlisted for a Herald Society Award under the Partnership Award category.
We held a webinar on preventing violence in a recession, where we discussed the challenges of preventing violence during a recession while maintaining a rights-based approach.
All of our brains have neurochemicals that work together (we call it the Brain’s Amazing Drugs Cabinet) to create different emotional states depending on how we are feeling physically, mentally and emotionally.
We break it down for you using five articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a framework.
Last week we held our first No Knives, Better Lives Community of Practice. A community of practice is a network of individuals with common problems or interests who get together to explore ways of working, identify common solutions, and share good practice and ideas.
AT NKBL, we’ve noticed increasing engagement with the advice we have available for parents, like advice on starting a conversation with your child about knife carrying, or how to encourage positive choices.
Ben Kinsella was just 16 years old when he was stabbed to death on 29th June, 2008 in Islington, London. After Ben’s death, his family set up the Ben Kinsella Trust to speak out about knife crime and campaign for change.