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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On participation and empowerment
Roger Hart’s ladder of participation above. A selection of reports may be found below relating to both empowerment and…
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…
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…
Community engagement, empowerment and sport
Some examples of community and youth engagement through sport from Lambeth, London in the UK and the premier leagues ‘Kicks…
Bringing Cultural Context and Self-Identity into Education: Brian Lozenski at TEDxUMN
Some thoughts on participation, exclusion and appropriate content for engagement and learning from Brian Lozenski.