Hi, and thank you for visiting this website. Let me take the opportunity to tell you, not just about what I have done, but what I plan to do!!
Some of you may know that I have designed and delivered Gang and Counter-Terrorism Safeguarding and Awareness Products to young people and corresponding Safeguarders across Manchester and the North West region. I have also designed and delivered training to other key agencies including Law Enforcement, Fire Service, Housing Providers, Mental Health Workers, Nurses, Education, Social Workers and I have also lectured on the BA and MA Social Worker Courses at Salford University in relation to Gangs and also Terrorism and Radicalisation awareness.
I have just completed some new products that I believe would greatly assist front-line Safegaurders and Service Providers.
An Introduction to Engaging with ‘Least-Heard’ Communities 2024
A practical guide to engagement. Previously delivered to over 2000 staff, including police and partner agencies throughout the UK. Now updated, it includes a model to assist front-line Safeguarders and Service Providers to engage with the communities that they support and to provide them with guidance to increase their personal safety.
From this, I have also designed and delivered a derivative training package entitled;
An Introduction to the Somali Community – based on my own personal journey and experiences working as an Engagement officer in communities across Manchester and the North West Region.
Both of these products are highly interactive, the content of which I have personally designed and developed whilst serving as a Gang Unit operative and Prevent Engagement Officer, in Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit.
My aim is to share my experiences as to how I started as an enforcement agent, (Police Officer in Moss Side) with a task of trying to understand a ‘hard-to-reach’ community that lived in the area, namely the Somali Diaspora. This short lecture details how I broke down barriers that blocked community understanding which culminated in me being accepted into this group, becoming an advisor and conduit between parts of this community and the police. I have compacted 5 years of what was at times extremely frustrating, (but equally enjoyable) engagement, into a one hour lecture, whereby I deliver the ‘formula’ that I successfully used.
Watch this space for updates.
Dean Coady O.B.E
urbanpuresolutions.com 