Every Voice Counts: Youth Action Network

Youth Action Network

Every Voice Counts Regional Event 2010

Davina Goodchild CEO



Empowering Young people

• Capturing youth led, participative volunteering in the West Midlands.

• Finding out what’s happening in voluntary and statutory sector – differences? Similarities?

• Promoting youth led volunteering to organisations via case studies.

• Recruitment and training of West Midlands based young reporters

• Can youth action be a ‘stepping stone’ to further empowerment and involvement?



Mukith Miah

Member Development Officer

Youth Participation



ACTIVITIESNovember – December 2010

Recruitment

• Recruitment from all over England – larger project than just West Midlands.

• 10 West Midlands volunteers

Induction

• Getting to know each other

• Project outline

• Role description

• Policies and Procedures



Training (November, December, January)

• Teambuilding

• 9 Principles of youth action

• Being a reporter and collecting case studies

• Target setting / Forms / Visits / Supervisions


Every Voice Counts Regional Event 2010Case Studies (Feb – March and

ongoing)

• Allocating stories

• Trial and error of format

• Youth led approach to case studies – to edit or not to edit!?



Emma Jarvis

Young Reporter



The results of the project



Lesson Learnt

Collecting Case Studies • Our experience with Local Authority groups was a steep learning curve.• Developing local relationships and building trust.

Young People• Keeping a group of young people who are geographically spread

motivated.• Stories of young people involved as interesting (if not more so) than the

stories they were reporting on.• Editing young people’s words to make them more palatable or suitable for

an adult audience.• Building in time for ‘practice’ before end product is required – the first

pieces written had to be used due to time frames.

Every Voice Counts: Youth Action Network

Education

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