The Young Migrants Matter project within PAFRAS are offering a training session to improve your practice of working with young people who are seeking asylum. The training is delivered by experienced caseworkers and has been co-produced with young people who access PAFRAS.
This training is for all professionals working with young people seeking asylum, including social workers, PAs, foster carers, supported lodgings providers, team managers, frontline professionals and volunteers. You must be based in the Yorkshire and Humber region. This is an in-person training event in Leeds.
The objectives for the training:
· The tools to challenge damaging and divisive myths about migration.
· An awareness of international refugee law and asylum journeys.
· An understanding of the asylum process in the UK and how to support young people through each stage
· An awareness of rights and entitlement of young people seeking asylum.
· An understanding of how the hostile environment harms communities and is detrimental to migrants.
· An action plan for helping young people you may be supporting who are seeking asylum/have an insecure immigration status.
Some feedback from previous sessions:
- I am going to feed back to our team manager about the quality of this training and promote colleagues to attend. I am going to be mindful of the language I use to avoid oppression and discrimination. And I am going to ensure my positionality as a social worker is ethically balanced by the rights of asylum seekers and refugees, and social work values.
- Brilliant training, very honest and open about the conflicts of legalisation v rights v values.
- It was a great training course with very passionate and knowledgeable trainers
- I feel more confident to challenge negative narratives, the practice guidance for asylum process will be invaluable
- has equipped me with a thorough understanding of legislation & practical support I can offer
- I feel much more confident in supporting the asylum seekers and refugees on my caseload by understanding where they may be in their status journey and being able to spend more time focusing on them as an individual.
- It has made me aware of unintentional harm in good intentions – being conscious of not acting in disempowering ways. It has also given me a solid base to work from.
- being aware of the trauma people face and the process of the system and how that impacts on health and how I can help as a supportive mechanism
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