What we do
Remarkable things happen in groups.
Community PRAXIS is the nexus between participation ‘work’ and strategic visioning. Our services reflect our consistent attention to a blended experience that insists upon PRAXIS at all times, reflecting in action and on practice.
CONSULTANCY
Straightening Organisations
We work with CEOs and Senior Managers within the Voluntary and Community Sector organisations to strengthen their culture of practice. Our work includes:
- Equality impact assessment
- Impact & evaluation (theory of change and storytelling}
- Creating place-based vision
- Strategies and policies development
- Contextual safeguarding
- Youth work practice
- Therapeutical informed youth work
- *supervisions/reflection
*We offer external supervision for Youth and Community practitioners: a confidential space to reflect, explore practice and improve outcomes.
TRAINING
Straightening Cultures
We deliver accredited training and non-accredited training to strengthen the practice within an organisation.
Accredited training
We work in partnership with the National Youth Agency (NYA) to raise the profile of the National Occupational Standards of Youth Work.
Our accredited training includes:
- Level 2 Full Award in Youth Work Principles
- Level 3 Full Diploma in Youth Work Practice
Bespoke training (non-accredited)
CPD (Continual Personal Development) in community and youth work including:
- Reflective practice
- Critical theory - creating a historical lens to inform practice
- Cultural competency - why it is necessary to strengthen cultures to understand equality
- Participation work - how participatory is your organisation?
- Youth values and principals
- Equality and diversity
- Anti-discriminatory practice
- Community skills work – increasing people’s social and community capital
- Lads and dads, the importance of fathers in the lives of their children
Participation Work (Frontline work)
Strengthening Communities
Our work enables adults and young people to be involved in decisions that affects them, promoting a stronger voice.
We work in partnership with Ipswich & Suffolk Council for Racial Equality (ISCRE) to strengthen the voice of black men in prison. We facilitate participatory group work approaches to ensure black men are closer to decision making affecting their time in prison, ultimately informing residents decision-making to make better choices in the future. Their desistance journey has begun. Currently, we are based in HMP Norwich and HMP Wayland Prisons.
COMMUNITIES
We work in partnerships offering creative solutions for innovation and sustainability. Strengthening community capital, participation and regeneration. Our recent work includes:
Destination Norwich Road, Ipswich/Co-funder
Leiston Together (Independent Chair)
Lift Community Grants (Independent Chair)
SCHOOLS
We work across Suffolk in partnership with organisations to support young people in a creative way to have a stronger voice.
Public motivation & masterclasses/workshops
- Critical theory
- Youth subculture - youth violence
- The use of metaphor and ‘common sense assumptions’ in gangs and county lines
- Equalities
- Participatory approaches to working with young people and communities
If you have a specific need or would like to explore other areas, please contact us for further discussions.