Youth Work Resources

We know that good youth work requires good youth work resources. That’s why we’re continuing to build a comprehensive library of toolkits, lesson plans, publications, professional frameworks, case studies and guidance to help you improve your youth work practice. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Let us know.

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#StopCambo
The #StopCambo campaign is made up of individuals, grassroots groups and organisations across Scotland, the rest of UK and the world who are dedicated to ending all new oil and gas extraction and bringing existing production within safe climate limits.
Training/Toolkits/Session Plans
Together for Our Planet Toolkit
This toolkit will help you talk about and explain COP26 and will provide you with assets, information and ideas for you to use.
Guidance, Training/Toolkits/Session Plans
Engaging different audiences around COP26: a guide for UK-based climate advocates
This guide explores how to communicate about COP26 in ways that resonates across a broad base of society. 
Guidance, Training/Toolkits/Session Plans
Hold Your First Climate Action Event
Whether online or in person, making a difference in the places where we live is the most powerful way we can respond to the climate emergency. Read guidance on how to host your first Climate Action event.
Guidance, Training/Toolkits/Session Plans
What is Climate Change?
Explore 13 resource modules all on the topic of Climate Change, from the greenhouse effect, to the Paris Agreement.
Guidance
Scottish Government - Outdoor Space Guidance
Guidance and advice for early learning and childcare settings and practitioners on how to access outdoor spaces to create safe, nurturing and inspiring outdoor learning experiences.
Guidance
Stop Climate Chaos Scotland
Access this useful network of climate civil society in Scotland.
Guidance
The Environment: Questions for Learning
This book is for practitioners who are curious and who like to ask questions about the environment, the world and our place in it. The book can help practitioners develop approaches to interdisciplinary learning and to embedding Learning for Sustainability in their practice.
Guidance
Green Jobs for Nature
The Green Jobs for Nature is a new campaign to make careers geared towards restoring and replenishing our natural environment more visible and achievable for all those thinking about their future work. 
Guidance
Green Jobs Workforce Academy
The new Green Jobs Workforce Academy, delivered by Skills Development Scotland, will help people take a greener approach to their careers, from accessing training and learning new skills, to finding a new green job. 
Publications & Research
How people and places can thrive in a green economy
Over the past 40 years, Groundwork has helped unemployed people of all ages to access green jobs and we’re ready to do even more in response to the climate and nature emergency.
Guidance, Training/Toolkits/Session Plans
CIEEM Resources
Whether a potential career changer or a young person thinking about what their future job might look like, CIEEM want to make it much easier to find out about the kinds of sustainable roles that exist, what they do, and how to get them.