The five-month project will see five detached youth workers from different parts of the city working with the 20 most disengaged young people in their area.
Harry Fowler, assistant head of youth work development at the service, said: "We will be testing out youth work as a way to engage young people on the edges of exclusion, identified through referrals from youth offending panels, drug action teams and our own projects."
Birmingham and Solihull Learning and Skills Council has given the youth service and Birmingham Youth Offending Service 50,000 each for the project.
Fowler said: "Although it is short-term funding, we hope that we will be able to extend the project in March."
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