Thursday November 29th, 2018Monday December 17th, 2018

Peer Education in Mental Health – When the Students become the Teachers

This video and the following text are from the Peer Education Project (PEP), linked here: https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/projects/peer-education-project-pep

The Peer Education Project is a school-based programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health, and that of their peers.

The project was born out of the idea that a key source of support to young people experiencing mental health distress is their peer group within the school environment. We developed this idea into a solution appropriate for schools.

By training older pupils to deliver mental health lessons to younger student, the project aims to bypass the walls many young people put up when being taught such nuanced, personal topics by adults whom they feel are detached from their personal experiences.

Thursday November 29th, 2018Monday December 17th, 2018

Mental Health and Youth Activism

‘How a conversation changed my life’, YoungMinds Activist Alex

In this video Alex tells us why he decided to become a YoungMinds Activist, and how talking about his mental health helped him overcome his struggles. If you’d like to learn more about becoming an Activist with us, or want tips on looking after your mental health visit youngminds.org.uk

Thursday November 29th, 2018Monday December 17th, 2018

Rural Young People’s Issues in the Scottish Highlands

Short film by Fixers UK, led by Sandy Campbell: http://www.fixers.org.uk/news/10038-1…

Concerned that life in the Scottish Highlands can be an isolating experience for young people, Sandy Campbell and his team want more support for those living in rural communities. The 17-year-old from Lochinver, Scotland says there’s little for others his age to do, and what prospects there may be are often inaccessible due to poor transport links.

Thursday November 29th, 2018Wednesday December 5th, 2018

Working with ‘Hard to Reach’ Young People

‘The engage programme supports projects funded through the Big Lottery Fund Reaching Out: The EngagageNYou is a group for young people 11-20 who will make sure that all help offered to organisations make a difference make a difference for young people’.

For more info email: engage@ncb.org.uk

Thursday November 29th, 2018Monday December 17th, 2018

Engaging the ‘Hard to Reach’

Engaging the ‘Hard to Reach’, Craig Pinkney

‘Traditional youth work practice, struggles to engage the tail end of modern society that is labelled ‘hard to reach’. Society also dictates that young people ‘hanging on street corners’ are perceived negatively as noticed by the increase in Dispersal Orders. As violence, post-code conflicts, gang culture knife/gun crime has risen amongst the youth within the inner cities of the U.K it demonstrates that a radical reframing is required in order to navigate the increased demands now being made on youth worker practitioners. Craig Pinkney an Urban Youth Specialist, inspired by his mentors Carlton Howson (Sociologist), Raymond Douglas (Anti Youth Violence) and Martin Glynn (Criminologist), delivers powerful workshops across the UK up-skilling practitioners on how to engage the so called ‘hard to reach’.’ This is a snippet from a lecture Craig delivered at De Montfort University.’ 21 August 2011

Tuesday November 27th, 2018Monday December 3rd, 2018

On participation and empowerment

Roger Hart’s ladder of participation above.

A selection of reports may be found below relating to both empowerment and participatory methods.

Article links:

Young Foundation – Join the coversation: https://youngfoundation.org/publications/join-conversation-collection-simple-ideas-planning-social-action-community/
Empowering Young People – Participatory Methods: http://www.participatorymethods.org/sites/participatorymethods.org/files/empowering%20young%20people.pdf
Empowering Young People to participate in society – Europa: http://ec.europa.eu/assets/eac/youth/events/documents/youthweek_brochure_en.pdf

Tuesday November 27th, 2018Friday January 4th, 2019

The DS4Y – Digital skills for You(th) project

The European project “Digital Skills for You(th)” aims at developing and piloting a blended learning offer for professionals working with disadvantaged young people. The offer focuses on a strength-oriented approach for their young target group concerning digital opportunities and challenges regarding their personal and professional development and active participation in society.

The project partners have published a Report on the framework conditions for training offers in digital youth work (only in English).

The project is funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission and is coordinated by the German Digital Opportunities Foundation with partners from the Czech Republic (NCBI) and Spain (Fundación ESPLAI). The duration of the project is from January 2017 till December 2018.

Monday November 26th, 2018Monday December 3rd, 2018

Participatory action research – The Young Foundation: Amplify

A ‘food for thought’ publication on their Amplify work, and community participatory action research from the Young Foundation:

“Designed and developed by the Young Foundation in partnership with communities, Amplify responds to the real, lived experiences of people and the communities in which they live and is based on the principles of listening deeply and treading carefully. Amplify connects people to take action together. It combines research, community engagement and action to spark new ideas for tackling the key challenges faced by communities.”

More information is available on their webpage at: https://youngfoundation.org/publications/amplify-voices-actions-places/

The “Amplify: Voices and actions in places” report: https://youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Synthesis-Report-Digital-April-2018.pdf