Intensive work in the Fenton area of the city has led to an improvement in young people's behaviour and prevented police issuing a dispersal order.
The police had identified the area as a "hotspot" for antisocial behaviour and said it was likely to be given a dispersal order.
The measures, also known as Section 30 orders, give the police the power to impose a nine o'clock curfew on under-16s.
The pilot Fast Response Education Team project is run by crime-reduction charity Nacro. Fenton is the first area where this project has been tried.
Danny Hughes, Nacro's area manager for Staffordshire, said the idea was to use "detached youth work" to teach young people about antisocial behaviour and find out what they wanted.
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