Support from a Youth Worker

We offer young people aged 11-19 support with a youth worker to help them build strategies and solutions to challenges they may be facing

What does support from a Youth Worker look like?

As well as our open access session, our youth workers offer support to young people who may be experiencing challenges. This could be with the pressures of being a teenager, such as difficult relationships, feeling low, angry or confused about your future. These are all things that can be difficult to manage on your own, but with our targeted support, you/they don’t have to.

Youth Worker Support is an enquiry based system where you can either refer yourself (a young person) or a young person you know to receive support from a youth worker. Our youth workers can offer individualised support and specialised group work to provide encouragement, strategies and help you find solutions to support you through challenging times. No matter the form of support, all our youth workers are qualified, skilled and uniquely caring individuals, who will work with young people to help them plan and reach their goals.

How to apply for support

Anyone, including young people themselves, parents, teachers, social workers, family practitioners, can submit an enquiry form for a young person aged between 11 and 19 to receive support.

Please take a look at our enquiry guide linked to the button below to find out more about the targeted support we offer. If you would like to apply or apply for a young person, please fill in the form and email it to info@spacepsm.org or your local Space Youth Centres email address.

    • The Young Person needs to give consent

    • There is a clear outcome/purpose for the referral

    • The intervention will be time limited (roughly two months or 8 sessions)

    • Work will focus primarily on the young person (yet may involve family members & friends at times)

  • Your enquiry will be assessed by the team in your local youth centre. We will get in touch with you to let you know what the most appropriate intervention for the young person is.

    If your enquiry is accepted, you will be contacted to discuss setting up an initial meeting with the young person and the youth worker.

    Where possible, this will be at a local youth centre.

    If the young person wants to move forward with the agreed intervention, the Youth Worker will talk to them about how this will happen.

  • Barnstaple: 01271 343762 / georgiesyc@spacepsm.org

    Bideford: 01237 475242 / bidefordyc@spacepsm.org

    Exeter: 01392 662227 / 100clubyc@spacepsm.org

    Exmouth: 01395 224259 / thehiveyc@spacepsm.org

    Newton Abbot: 01626 369283 / thestationyc@spacepsm.org

    Okehampton: 01837 657601 / room13yc@spacepsm.org

    Tiverton: 01884 252642 / tivertonyc@spacepsm.org

    Totnes: 01803 849200 / rushbrookyc@spacepsm.org

    If you don’t know your nearest youth centre, then please get in touch at info@spacepsm.org

Find Out More

If you would like to find out more about our support enquiries or you are worried about a young person please get in touch by emailing info@spacepsm.org.

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