The Dacorum Youth Strategy Partnership Group provides a forum for local service providers and other key stakeholders to collaborate strategically and operationally. The group reviews and analyses key and emerging trends about issues affecting young people.
The group meets regularly to discuss these key issues in the area. It then decides on what local action needs to be taken, both collectively and by individual organisations, to target these issues and help ensure young people in Dacorum have the very best opportunities available.
For further information about the work of the Dacorum Youth Strategy Partnership Group, please contact the Chair, Karen Haswell, at [email protected].
Opportunities for young people in the Dacorum district
Dacorum Youth Strategy Partnership Group member organisations
Services for Young People
Youth work, information, advice, guidance, support and work-related learning for young people
Services for Young People
@DacorumTeam
Caudwell Youth
Providing mentoring for young people aged 11 to 24 for up to two years.
Change Grow Live
Responsible for managing team of support adviser for alcohol and substance misuse and addiction
Change Grow Live
@changegrowlive
Community Action Dacorum
Providing support to voluntary/community groups and delivering support services for individuals.
Community Action Dacorum
@Support4Dacorum
Dacorum Borough Council
Community Safety
Dacorum Borough Council
@DacorumBC
Dacorum Education Support Centre (DESC)
Education Support Centre offering education and respite for children at risk of exclusion
Dacorum Education Support Centre
@dacorumesc
Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
DSPL8 (Delivering Special Provision Locally)
DSPL is a Hertfordshire-wide partnership approach where parents, carers, staff in early years settings and schools, further education colleges, local authority officers and representatives from other agencies work together as a part of an area group. The group ensure that there is a range of provision and support services available or children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities in their local community.
Gade Schools Family Support Services
Schools partnership working with the local community and other organisations to provide children, their families with opportunities, services and activities that will help improve children’s achievement and wellbeing.
Hertfordshire Children and Young People’s Mental Health Services (CYPMHS), formerly CAMHS
Interventions for moderate/severe emotional, mental health and behavioural difficulties in children and adolescents.
Hertfordshire Constabulary
Anti-social behaviour co-ordinator liaising with agencies and working for the Police
Safer neighbourhood policing
Child Criminal Exploitation Prevention and Diversion Team - an engagement and prevention working one-to-one with young people up to 18, offering early intervention and preventative support focusing on those at risk of gang affiliation, criminal exploitation, and knife crime, helping them stay safe and make positive choices.
Hertfordshire Police
@HertsPolice
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
Ensuring public are aware of how to stay safe – including initiatives for young people
Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service
@HFRS
Hertfordshire Talking Therapies - Dacorum and St Albans Wellbeing Team
Hertfordshire Talking Therapies service provided by Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) provides a wide range of confidential talking therapies for anxiety and depression and employment support for young people and adults facing common mental health challenges.
Herts Inclusive Theatre (HIT) Theatre Hemel Hempstead
Responsible for management of HIT Theatre – provision of performing arts for children/young people within the borough
Herts Mind Network
Herts Sport and Physical Activity Partnership (HSP)
Introducing sport initiatives county-wide
Herts Sports and Physical Activity Partnership
@sportinherts
Herts Young Homeless
A Hertfordshire-based independent charity open to all 16 to 24 year olds who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.
Intensive Families Support Team
Support to families, including those at risk of family breakdown
Peabody Housing Association
Peabody supports young people by providing safe housing, one-to-one support, and tailored programmes to help them develop independence and promote mental well-being.
Specialist Adolescent Service Hertfordshire (SASH)
Working with vulnerable young people including those in the youth justice system
The Prince's Trust
Promotion of Prince Trust programmes and employment opportunities
The Princes Trust
@PrincesTrust
The Swan Youth Project
Aims to provide a safe space for young people in Berkhamsted.
