Youth Connect

Quick Summary

Building on existing youth voice and engagement activity in the Humber region focused on perceptions of safety and violence in communities.

Overview

In 2025, we appointed a Youth Voice Research Assistant to our team and commissioned eski, a leading social impact media and marketing agency, to help us understand how youth voice is captured across the Humber region.

The insights from this ‘Youth Connect’ project will shape our future activity and make sure that violence prevention work is informed by the young people it affects.

The outcomes include:

A directory of organisations and groups currently engaging young people, repository of findings and identification of any gaps
A report detailing insights
A report of findings from young people in the youth justice system

You can read the reports by clicking the links below.

Youth Connect Webpage

Features repository of youth voice resources and Google Notebook to analyse the reports.

Youth Voice Map

Google Map of organisations that work with young people and capture youth voice.

Youth Voice Database

Database of organisations that work with young people and capture youth voice.

Youth Justice System

Findings report from discussions with young people in the youth justice system.

Violence Prevention Activity

Findings report on youth voice relating to violence prevention activity and themes in the Humber region.

Background

We're aware that a wide range of youth voice and engagement activity already exists across the Humber region, with many groups and organisations actively engaging children and young people.

We also recognise that significant work has already been carried out to understand their perceptions of safety and violence in their communities. However, young people have consistently told us they are frustrated with being repeatedly consulted without seeing meaningful change as a result.

The Youth Connect project aims to avoid duplication, value what has already been said and identify how we can act on it more effectively. As part of this work, we wanted to make sure that the voices were truly representative. We were particularly keen to engage with care-experienced young people, individuals with neuro-diverse needs and those from underrepresented communities – including those with lived experience of violence and abuse.

By bringing together voices, insights and valuable work from across different locations, sectors and communities, we want to drive genuine, system-level change in how we embed young people’s voices in violence prevention work.