Audience: Organisations/Professionals and staff.  No number restriction

Length of course: Up to 6 hours (client dependent)

Description: For organisations working with young and vulnerable people, the impact of violent extremism and radicalisation is an increasingly urgent element of standard safeguarding.

Through its combination of academic knowledge, practitioner experience and community connection, ConnectFutures has developed this course to increase understanding about the law, the path into and out of violent extremism, and the practical actions to help prevent and identify risk and vulnerability.

We tailor our courses to the needs of your sector and organisation, with trainers experienced in policing, prisons and probation, health, housing and more, and for different staff needs, from front line workers to management and policy officers.

Learning outcomes:

1.. Icebreaker

2. Legislation: understanding the law and its implications for your work

3. Violent extremism: what does this mean, what might it look like, how can we tell?

4. Wider history, context and community experiences

5. Understanding to prevent: recruitment techniques and propaganda

6. Processes of radicalisation and disengagement

7. Identifying risk and vulnerabilities in individuals

8. Group table top exercise1: What would you do? How would your organisation react to an intervention?

9. Group table top exercise: Design your case study. Preventing, intervening, signposting, de/escalating

10. Group Feedback session with the trainer

11. Case studies – Far right, animal rights and Islamists

12. Tools shared – Barometer: Behaviour and vulnerability tool to identify signs of radicalisation leading to violence