Community Engagement

We work with children and young people, families, schools and community groups to better understand the issues impacting local communities and identify opportunities for positive change.

Through youth voice projects, awareness campaigns, funded interventions and educational programmes, we make sure that local views, experiences and ideas help shape our violence prevention work.

Click the green bars below to explore our projects, reports and initiatives and see how community engagement is influencing action across Humberside.

Our Strategic Approach

By combining evidence, partnership working, community insight and lived experience, we focus on understanding the root causes of violence, preventing harm before it occurs and creating safer, healthier communities.

Serious Violence Duty

The local response and collaborative action being taken to prevent violence.

Public Health Approach

How serious violence is a public health issue and related to inequalities.

Championing Youth Voice and Activity

Along with funding projects to engage young people in positive activities that reduce violence, we recognise the need to embed youth voice meaningfully and consistently across our work. The programmes below can help you understand and use youth voice in your own organisations and community groups.

Youth Connect

Free resources, reports and analysis tools focused on youth voice in Humberside.

Youth Health Champions

Developing champions for violence prevention in healthcare and community settings.

Our Projects

Past and present projects that deliver targeted, evidence-informed activity.

Street First Aid

Includes dealing with wounds, drink spiking and mental health crises.

Case Studies

Learn how our projects are helping local young people and communities.

Supporting Youth Justice

We work closely with Youth Justice Services across Humberside to better understand the experiences of young people and support approaches that prevent further harm. In addition, we played a key part in the rollout of the Young Futures Panel in Hull by funding, coordinating, shaping and supporting the initiative.

Young Futures Panel

Earlier, more effective interventions for children and young people.

Youth Justice Services

Contact details for youth justice services in Yorkshire and Humberside.

Community Support and Resources

The Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner delivers a range of projects and partnerships that support communities, including grant funding programmes and regional Community Safety Partnerships. They also fund the Not In Our Community website, for which we provided advice and resources to help parents and carers navigate some of the challenges children and young people face today.

Not In Our Community

Helping parents and carers talk to their child about crime and safety topics.

Community Safety Partnerships

Working together to reduce crime, disorder, substance misuse and reoffending.

Community Safety Fund

Grants to kick-start local projects to decrease crime and antisocial behaviour.

Neighbourhood Policing Teams

Plays a vital role in tackling many of the local issues that are important to you.

Prevention Through Education

Education plays a vital role in violence prevention. The Humber VPP works with schools, education partners and policing teams across Humberside to help create environments where children and young people can learn and thrive.

We also champion Pol-Ed, a free programme developed by West Yorkshire Police to improve young people’s awareness of risks, citizenship and the law.

Safer Schools Partnership

Building relationships between young people, police and educational professionals.

Education Partnership

Partners involved in safeguarding, education, public health and early intervention.

Pol-Ed

Free educational programme for schools and community groups in Humberside.