Skills to support vulnerable young people to improve resilience
Our two-day Coaching 'At Risk' Young People training course supports practitioners to promote resilience and prevent the development of mental health problems in vulnerable young people through coaching and strengths-based approaches.
Skills to support vulnerable young people to improve resilience
Our two-day Coaching 'At Risk' Young People training course supports practitioners to promote resilience and prevent the development of mental health problems in vulnerable young people through coaching and strengths-based approaches.
Address these needs in the young people you support
Disempowered
Are the young people you work with disempowered and lacking strategies to help themselves manage their situations?
Poor Mental Health
Are the vulnerable young people you work with struggling with poor mental health?
Dependant
Do you want build self-reliance and resilience in the young people you work with, to help them manage the challenges they face?
Crisis Management
Do you want to develop a proactive focus on prevention rather than crisis management?
Shared Approach
Do you want to use an evidence-based approach to providing early prevention for vulnerable young people?
Effective Prevention
Are the young people you work with disempowered and lacking strategies to help themselves manage their situations?
Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Increasing your capacity to support young people develop resilience
Coaching ‘At Risk’ Young People Training
The development of resilience and wellbeing underpins the prevention of problems for vulnerable young people. This course is aimed at practitioners that deliver direct work with young people who may be at risk of, or are struggling with poor mental health, due to vulnerabilities and challenging situations they face. The training develops practitioners’ ability to use effective coaching relationships, skills and processes in their work with young people.
What will the training cover?
During the training participants will:
- Explore the underpinning skills and knowledge needed to effectively use coaching skills to develop wellbeing and resilience in young people.
- Learn about effective coaching relationships and how to develop resilience through the coaching approach, skills and process.
- Develop solution focused strategies that empower young people, enabling them to take ownership and accountability for their actions and outcomes.
- Practice and apply strengths based positive psychology approaches suitable for vulnerable young people.
- Practice and experience the coaching approach in order to effectively use this approach when working with young people.
What difference will it make?
- Know how to apply a range of strategies and techniques that help vulnerable young people develop resilience and wellbeing.
- Have tools and strategies to empower young people to build confidence and self-worth know how to effectively develop strengths in young people.
- Gain understanding of the coaching process, skills and relationship and how to work with vulnerable young people using this approach.
- Have practiced and gained the confidence to embed a coaching approach as part of their professional practice.
Underpinning Evidence
Coaching is evidenced to be the most effective way of providing support to develop resilience. Resilience is an important area of psychology research within the field of Positive Psychology. This training utilizes research and applied practice from both positive psychology and evidence-based coaching. These approaches have been adapted and made accessible and researched to understand how they effectively support the development of resilience in young people. This integrated approach has been demonstrated to increase self-awareness, self-regulation, interpersonal skills, wellbeing and positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and provide a proactive approach to prevention.
The training integrates strategies that include solution focused coaching, development of helpful thinking skills, raising emotional and self-awareness, development of positive interpersonal and communication skills, strengths based approaches and goal striving behaviour.

Practical Information
Duration
Two days, delivered in-house in your organisation
Suitable for
- Practitioners that deliver direct work with vulnerable young people.
- Practitioners working in schools, MAT’s youth organisations, charities or social enterprises, e.g. homeless prevention workers, youth drugs and alcohol workers, youth workers, young justice teams, NEET prevention practitioners, mentors, volunteers, teachers, school pastoral teams , cared for young people support workers, young carers support workers
Cost
Request a quote below
Interested in tailored training?
We regularly develop tailored training to meet the specific needs of individual organisations.
Looking for a course for yourself?
Coaching ‘At Risk’ Young People Training
The development of resilience and wellbeing underpins the prevention of problems for vulnerable young people. This course is aimed at practitioners that deliver direct work with young people who may be at risk of, or are struggling with poor mental health, due to vulnerabilities and challenging situations they face. The training develops practitioners’ ability to use effective coaching relationships, skills and processes in their work with young people.
What will the training cover?
During the training participants will:
- Explore the underpinning skills and knowledge needed to effectively use coaching skills to develop wellbeing and resilience in young people.
- Learn about effective coaching relationships and how to develop resilience through the coaching approach, skills and process.
- Develop solution focused strategies that empower young people, enabling them to take ownership and accountability for their actions and outcomes.
- Practice and apply strengths based positive psychology approaches suitable for vulnerable young people.
- Practice and experience the coaching approach in order to effectively use this approach when working with young people.
What difference will it make?
- Know how to apply a range of strategies and techniques that help vulnerable young people develop resilience and wellbeing.
- Have tools and strategies to empower young people to build confidence and self-worth know how to effectively develop strengths in young people.
- Gain understanding of the coaching process, skills and relationship and how to work with vulnerable young people using this approach.
- Have practiced and gained the confidence to embed a coaching approach as part of their professional practice.
Underpinning Evidence
Coaching is evidenced to be the most effective way of providing support to develop resilience. Resilience is an important area of psychology research within the field of Positive Psychology. This training utilizes research and applied practice from both positive psychology and evidence-based coaching. These approaches have been adapted and made accessible and researched to understand how they effectively support the development of resilience in young people. This integrated approach has been demonstrated to increase self-awareness, self-regulation, interpersonal skills, wellbeing and positive outcomes for vulnerable young people and provide a proactive approach to prevention.
The training integrates strategies that include solution focused coaching, development of helpful thinking skills, raising emotional and self-awareness, development of positive interpersonal and communication skills, strengths based approaches and goal striving behaviour.
This training has given me new skills and techniques to enable young people to recognise barriers and own emotions in order to be able to make more informed choices and set goals and aspirations for their future.
Nina Allard Service Manager - Inside Out, The Children’s Society Â
Practical Information
Duration
Two days, delivered in-house in your organisation
Suitable for
- Practitioners that deliver direct work with vulnerable young people.
- Practitioners working in schools, MAT’s youth organisations, charities or social enterprises, e.g. homeless prevention workers, youth drugs and alcohol workers, youth workers, young justice teams, NEET prevention practitioners, mentors, volunteers, teachers, school pastoral teams , cared for young people support workers, young carers support workers
Cost
Request a quote below

Practical Information
Duration
Two days, delivered in-house in your organisation
Suitable for
- Practitioners that deliver direct work with vulnerable young people.
- Practitioners working in schools, MAT’s youth organisations, charities or social enterprises, e.g. homeless prevention workers, youth drugs and alcohol workers, youth workers, young justice teams, NEET prevention practitioners, mentors, volunteers, teachers, school pastoral teams , cared for young people support workers, young carers support workers
Cost
Request a quote below
This will be an Impact & ROI Section
"We would like to put an enthusiastically positive quote about the training somewhere."
We hope to have some positive statistics about the solution to go down here too.
bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
Evidence Basis
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that time precious and getting teams together for two full days of training is a big ask. We can provide condensed shorter version of this training, however we will not be able to go into all the content or allow as much time for practice as we would in two full days. In order to get the most out of the training we recommend comitting to the two full days.
We recommend this training for between 8-16 people. Get in touch with us to discuss how many people you would like to book this training for.
Our training programmes are very popular and often booked well in advance, if you have a date in mind then please get in touch with your preferred date.
This training is aimed at practitioners who work with young people aged 13-25.
Yes, we have delivered this training in secondary schools. The training is most suited to practitioners who provide pastoral support and interventions to students in school settings.
Yes, we actually recommend running this workshop for participants from several schools who can take back the learning to deaminate in their schools.
Yes, we have delivered this training for many third sector organisations.
We regularly work with partners to apply for funding or commissioning to develop early prevention programmes that use a coaching approach. Please get in touch with us to discuss your ideas and how we can support you develop positive outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Yes, all our workshops include participants workbooks to use during the training, keep and use when working with young people.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that time precious and getting teams together for two full days of training is a big ask. We can provide condensed shorter version of this training, however we will not be able to go into all the content or allow as much time for practice as we would in two full days. In order to get the most out of the training we recommend comitting to the two full days.
We recommend this training for between 8-16 people. Get in touch with us to discuss how many people you would like to book this training for.
Our training programmes are very popular and often booked well in advance, if you have a date in mind then please get in touch with your preferred date.
This training is aimed at practitioners who work with young people aged 13-25.
Yes, we have delivered this training in secondary schools. The training is most suited to practitioners who provide pastoral support and interventions to students in school settings.
Yes, we actually recommend running this workshop for participants from several schools who can take back the learning to deaminate in their schools.
Yes, we have delivered this training for many third sector organisations.
We regularly work with partners to apply for funding or commissioning to develop early prevention programmes that use a coaching approach. Please get in touch with us to discuss your ideas and how we can support you develop positive outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Yes, all our workshops include participants workbooks to use during the training, keep and use when working with young people.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that time precious and getting teams together for two full days of training is a big ask. We can provide condensed shorter version of this training, however we will not be able to go into all the content or allow as much time for practice as we would in two full days. In order to get the most out of the training we recommend comitting to the two full days.
We recommend this training for between 8-16 people. Get in touch with us to discuss how many people you would like to book this training for.
Our training programmes are very popular and often booked well in advance, if you have a date in mind then please get in touch with your preferred date.
This training is aimed at practitioners who work with young people aged 13-25.
Yes, we have delivered this training in secondary schools. The training is most suited to practitioners who provide pastoral support and interventions to students in school settings.
Yes, we actually recommend running this workshop for participants from several schools who can take back the learning to deaminate in their schools.
Yes, we have delivered this training for many third sector organisations.
We regularly work with partners to apply for funding or commissioning to develop early prevention programmes that use a coaching approach. Please get in touch with us to discuss your ideas and how we can support you develop positive outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Yes, all our workshops include participants workbooks to use during the training, keep and use when working with young people.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that time precious and getting teams together for two full days of training is a big ask. We can provide condensed shorter version of this training, however we will not be able to go into all the content or allow as much time for practice as we would in two full days. In order to get the most out of the training we recommend comitting to the two full days.
We recommend this training for between 8-16 people. Get in touch with us to discuss how many people you would like to book this training for.
Our training programmes are very popular and often booked well in advance, if you have a date in mind then please get in touch with your preferred date.
This training is aimed at practitioners who work with young people aged 13-25.
Yes, we have delivered this training in secondary schools. The training is most suited to practitioners who provide pastoral support and interventions to students in school settings.
Yes, we actually recommend running this workshop for participants from several schools who can take back the learning to deaminate in their schools.
Yes, we have delivered this training for many third sector organisations.
We regularly work with partners to apply for funding or commissioning to develop early prevention programmes that use a coaching approach. Please get in touch with us to discuss your ideas and how we can support you develop positive outcomes for vulnerable young people.
Yes, all our workshops include participants workbooks to use during the training, keep and use when working with young people.
Interested in tailored training?
We regularly develop tailored training to meet the specific needs of individual organisations.