Education

We offer a wide range of accredited courses and alternative education.

Since opening in 2000 The Drop Inn has helped over 3457 young people, got 417 young people through training and receiving accredited certificates, 42 Young people have joined and been pro-active on the Youth Committee planning events workshops and helping run the centre, and 5 Young people became volunteer managers of the centre.

List of Courses 2011. Child Care, Drugs Awareness, Alcohol Awareness, Understanding Prejudice and Discrimination, Understanding Equal Opportunities, Sexual Health and Relationships, Health and Safety, The Law and Young People, Working in the Community, DJ skills, Theater. We also run night courses in Level 1 Sign Language.

We Use the Cinn (our projection room) for presentations and showcasing our film projects, exhibitions, relevant educational films, and it has also been used for VJ workshops.

We also take on student work placements from Belper School. Derby College and Derby University. The Belper School students and other secondary School placements we get usually only last a week, so the level of involvement is quite basic but still a good experience and spring board into future work environments and further education. The college and University placements we take include more advance levels of Planning, Delivering, Recording, and Evaluating projects. We help students to reach a recognized good work practice, the students usually stay on these longer placement for an average of a term time.