Training: Working with young people with additional needs

Mark Arnold is the Additional Needs Ministry Director for Urban Saints. He helps to keep Urban Saints at the leading edge of inclusion and wellbeing for children and young people in the UK and Ireland.

Mark is co-founder of the ‘Additional Needs Alliance’, a collective of organisations, children’s & youth workers, parents and more who share a passion for making a positive difference for children and young people with additional needs. He is a ‘Churches for All’ partner, a member of the ‘Council for Disabled Children’ and ‘Living Fully’, and serves on the executive for ‘Children Matter!’ Mark has over 20 years of youth work experience and is the father of James, a boy with Autism.