News

Deter Innovations are proud to be working with Newcastle City Council. This is an exciting venture.

Deter are the proud recipients of the runner up award from South Tyneside ACL ( Adult and Community Learning)

Deter staff will be in South Shields Market place on Saturday 19th May from 8.30am. Come along to chat to us about our life changing courses

Deter are delighted to be attending Consett Job Centre please CALL US to talk about our courses in the local area.

Deter are very proud to be nomiated for Provider of the year Award by South Tyneside Council Adult and Community Learning.

Our new Gateshead office is now up and running. We are pleased to be working in partnership delivering our Relationship Skills Programme with Gateshead Borough Council. Our Gateshead number is - 0191 477 1358.

Programmes

The Relationship Skills Programme (RSP)

Is your partner afraid of you? Do you ask yourself if you are violent or abusive?
If you do then you probably are.

Slapping, punching, kicking, threatning, smashing things, isolating her, spying, threatning to harm the children, stopping her from seeing her friends, ignoring her, using the children, putting her down, sulking, witholding sex, forcing her to have sex, controlling the money and many more.........

If you recognise that YOU have used any of the above behaviours toward a partner then you have been or are being abusive. No matter how you feel, it is never alright to hurt or scare your partner or children.

If you want to stop then we can help you to change. Ask for further information.
Or download our information file.

All men who refer or are referred to the project are offered assessments to determine their suitability for the Relationship skills Programme. The service is FREE.

Our staff will meet with you to determine your suitability and what changes you wish to make.

The assessment will look at your behaviour within the relationship and your understanding of how that behaviour has impacted on your partner and children. You will be given all the information that you need to make an informed decsion about attending by our staff.

The assessment will cover such things as; how you view abusive behaviours in your partnership and whether you see that as a problem. Your level of acceptance that behaviours in your relationship have not been healthy for either your partner or children. You will also be advised as to the conditions of attendance and your willingness to abide by these.

The Relationship Skills Programme is group work based. We work in small groups. If you meet the eligibility criteria and are selected to attend, you would be required to commit to coming to group once a week. The duration of these sessions would be between two and three hours. In total the programme will run for 26 weeks. It requires you to remain committed to your goal of building a repectful and healthy relationship based on ending controlling, abusive and violent behaviours. Remember, abusive behaviours are behaviours of choice. The programme will help you to develop a better awareness of why you chose to behave as you did and re-structuring your relationship skills. Allowing you to make better informed choices that will help you build a respectful relationship built on trust and care.

Currently the programme is run in South Shields and Darlington with plans to expand our service to other areas during 2012.

Information

SKILLS 4 CHANGE COURSES

Why Contact Deter?

It is never too late to learn new skills that will help you improve or changes your life.
Deter deliver courses in a style that is engaging, relaxed and motivational. Our courses are based on proven methods that teach new thinking skills and techniques which can give those completing courses an opportunity to make positive changes in their lives. The skills for life courses are usually delivered once a week for 8 sessions (although we are flexible in our delivery to suit learners’ needs).
All our facilitators are highly experienced,qualified and are registered with the institue for Learning. They all have current enhanced CRB checks and are approved to deliver this range of courses. Just as important are their motivational and engaging delivery styles ensuring every client’s needs are taken into consideration.
At the end of every course we hold a special graduation session to recognise achievements, award certificates and celebrate success. The graduation consists of other organisations attending to give informal presentations on additional training or support, career and employment opportunities as well as health and wellbeing ensuring graduates can continue to improve their lives and prospects.

Courses

Foundation Programme

A course which enables participants to increase confidence and self-esteem. It is designed to change the way people react to, and deal with, potentially difficult situations using new thinking techniques and skills. The will help the course also teach new skills to deal with problems, improve communication and relationships. Using skills to manage emotions and stress and increase self -awareness. This is an ideal first course to build up skills and open up progression opportunities into employment, volunteering or further learning

Foundation 2 Progression Pathway

This is an ideal progression course following on from the skills and techniques used in the Foundation Skills Course. It allows skills to be practiced using the wheel of life as a visual goal aid. This course focuses heavily on the setting of aceivable goals to enable clients to reach their potential. The course covers all aspects of life as a holistic approach including relationships, finances, employment, emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Tenancy Sustainment Course

This course is designed to help understand the key aspects of finding and sustaining a tenancy. This learning is underpinned by the teaching of new thinking skills and techniques. The overall aim of the course is to empower the learners with the skills, confidence, and tools to successfully manage their tenancy and play a full part in their community. A variety of teaching and learning methods will be utilised on this course, to make the learning experience as interactive as possible. This will include group discussion, presentations and activities.

Community Mentor Course

This is an ideal course for those wishing to work or who are already involved in community work and volunteering. The programme enables clients to understand the role of a mentor, how to initiate, maintain and end a mentoring relationship as well as facilitating active listening skills and basic counselling techniques. The course involves skills practice sessions. The programme enables clients to progress into higher level mentoring or counselling courses.

Self Employment And Enterprise Course

This course is ideal for anyone who is considering self-employment or wishing to explore the potential of enterprise. This course focuses on business start-ups with little or no financial backing based on the clients skills or work experience such as window cleaning, plastering, domestic cleaning, gardening, hairdressing etc. as well as taking a hobby into a cottage business such as cake decorating, card making, gardening, dog walking etc. The aim of the course is for clients to understand how to start a small business, find customers, keep customers, market and promote their business on a shoe string and the legislation surrounding enterprise.