
Our Team
The Youth Interventions Team specialise in working with young people across West Yorkshire who may be identified as more likely to need or instigate any of the blue light services now or in their futures.
We deliver a range of highly engaging Youth Intervention Programmes which aim to make West Yorkshire safer both by challenging young people to change behaviours and providing essential safety experiences. Young people on our interventions, develop personal skills and qualities such as resilience and team work through a variety of activities and practical experiences.
Our interventions are developed and delivered by specialist Youth Intervention Trainers alongside our team of Youth Instructors who are all active Firefighters.
We work closely with partner agencies, organisations and schools to be the catalyst for change which many young people need to help them lead safer lives and engage and progress.
In 2016 the team received an Excellence in the Fire Service Award for an outstanding and innovative approach to partnership working.
Funding
Prevention work is essential to WYFRS and we are committed to delivering these interventions to all the young people who need them to make West Yorkshire Safer. We invest a lot of resource and specialist skills in our Interventions. However there are some costs we must recover through external funding.
Please do not be deterred from requesting an intervention because of funding. In some cases we already have external funding to cover the costs or we can help you apply for funding.
We can also help partners share cohorts to reduce costs and accommodate smaller learner numbers
If you have a young person or group of young people who will benefit from our Interventions, please just contact us and let’s sort the funding out together.
Core Interventions
These programmes develop character in young people by challenging their confidence, resilience, integrity and determination. They are practical and fast paced utilising firefighting skills to promote behaviour change to enable young people to face the challenges of life, society and future employment.
Educational Interventions
All educational talks are free of charge but are intended for youth groups, youth services, youth offending teams, Prince’s Trust programmes and any other agency working with identified vulnerable young people.