Ready-to-use training course for new and existing leadership teams.

Insights has been developed to help train Christian youth and children's leadership teams to run effective outreach groups for children and young people.

The course has been written in such a way that it is not only a highly effective 'foundation' course for leadership teams starting new groups, but it can also be used as a very useful 'refresher' course for teams in established groups.

Urban Saints run training conferences around the country each year. Click to find out details of what's happening over the coming months...

• The Totally Wired Tour  
• The Youthwork Summit
• Getting Your Kids Through Church

Find out about the various DVD training resources available from Urban Saints...

• Totally Wired
• InFocus: Eating Disorders
• Christian Life and Children
• InFocus: Mentoring
• Friendship Evangelism

Christian mentoring can definitely release the exciting, God given potential in young people across our nation and change their lives in profound and exciting ways.

Are you up for mentoring someone? Are you ready to look for a Mentor? 

Bullying, drugs, love or rejection.... Countless issues influence our young people. We've tried to unpack some of these to provide some guidance to those working with young people who are experiencing some of these issues.

This series will be the new home for any news and updates regarding legislation, or new advice on good practice in youth and children's work.

Included is a brief description of and a link to the Know How Guide, Urban Saints' Child Protection Policy. The Know How Guide also includes information and guidelines that Energize Plus subscribers should follow for the running of their group. 

An amusing set of videos taken from our Leaders' TV episodes giving you some top tips on becoming a better leader.

This is the facticious story of Trevor Gilbert, or 'Trudge', a youth worker at St Mary's, an imaginary church just outside Birmingham.

Join Trudge as he works his way through a year of full-time youth work, the ups and downs plus a little lateral thinking along the way.

Leaders are people who are going somewhere, and taking other people with them. If you are that, this series will be of interest to you.

Leaders of leaders are people whose gift and role is to help people who are going somewhere get there, together! If you are that, this series is for you. 

What are the issues that you face in running your group and in working with the children and young people?

These articles tackle some of the issues that groups commonly face and seeks to give some answers.

A look at some of the major faiths and their differences and similarities to Christianity.

Books and other resources that will challenge and inspire youth and children's leaders.

Some of this series was originally published on the Evangelical Alliance's *essential website.

A new series of articles looking at some of the more commonly found conditions that some children and young people journey with today, including Autism, Aspergers Syndrome, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and more.

The series will help you, as childrens and youth leaders, understand these conditions and be better placed to support these children and young people, and their parents, as they engage with your group.

Much of the material in this series has been adated from materials written by Through The Roof: http://www.throughtheroof.org/