Street Pastor Training
Street Pastors in Portsmouth complete a professional training programme delivered by experts in the field. The programme includes essential modules designed to ensure each new volunteer is fully equipped to safely patrol on the streets.
Training is generally provided in-person at venues in and around Portsmouth and Southampton. Transport can be provided with enough notice.
SESSIONS:
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
STREET CRAFT
KNOWING YOUR COMMUNITY
SAFETY ON THE STREETS (INC. DRUGS AND ALCOHOL AWARENESS)
SAFEGUARDING
POLICE & OTHER NIGHT TIME ECONOMY ROLES
GOOD NEWS
MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES (INC. SUICIDE PREVENTION)
EXPLOITATION
YOUTH CULTURES
LISTENING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS
PRAYER ON THE STREETS
URBAN TRINITY
Enrolling to the training course is possible once your application has been accepted. Visit ‘Join Us’ for more details.
Please click below for details on the core and optional modules, costs and next training dates, and contact John at portsmouth@streetpastors.org.uk for more information
School Pastor Training
An enjoyable and informative training programme is provided for all new School Pastors, through a combination of interactive in-person and online sessions run by qualified and experienced professionals in their field.
Both core modules (Roles & Responsibilities and Safeguarding) and 2 optional modules need to be completed before new recruits can enter a schools as a qualified School Pastor.
Training sessions take place on Saturdays, with in person training held locally and with other local initiatives, and online training completed with the Ascension Trust alongside School and Street Pastors from across the country.
The next cycle of training will prepare school pastors to be ready to begin visiting a secondary school regularly from September of the new 2023/24 academic year.
KEY DATES
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES (IN PERSON)
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED AS SUBJECT TO DEMAND ACROSS PORTSMOUTH, GOSPORT & IOW, 9:30AM-4PM
*Trainee travel can be organised and paid for by Street Pastors Portsmouth
LISTENING SKILLS
SATURDAY 11th FEBRUARY 2023, ONLINE, 9AM-12PM
YOUTH CULTURES
SATURDAY 18th FEBRUARY 2023, ONLINE, 9AM-12PM
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
SATURDAY 25th FEBRUARY 2023, ONLINE, 9AM-12PM
SAFEGUARDING
SATURDAY 11th MARCH 2023, ONLINE, 9AM-12PM
Cost – £14.28 per module per person*
Enrolling to the training course is possible once your application has been accepted.
On completing training, you will be ‘commissioned’ and loaned a uniform (new or used but ‘like new’) and given a unique ID card. We will also complete a DBS check with you.
Please click below for full details on the contents of each core and optional module, including costs and upcoming training dates, or contact us at portsmouth@schoolpastors.org.uk for more information.
*For anyone who has a strong desire to by a school pastor but is in financial hardship, we are very happy to discuss how you may be helped at this time. We encourage everyone with a genuine and strong desire to become a school pastor to still apply regardless of your financial circumstances.