2008 Conference

Is the street a place to go?

In this morning’s presentations, Dee O’Connell spoke about street based outreach that forms part of the Youth Crime Action Plan.

Dee talked about how this was similar to Detached Youth Work - but some of the table-based discussions sought to explore the difference.

The street based work in the youth crime action plan seems to be about getting young people off the street - but detached youth work can recognise that the street is not always to move young people on from, but can be a space where we can work with young people.

So, when we are talking about Places to Go and Things to Do for young people, can the street be amongst places to go?

© 2008 APYCO Interactive.