Engaging and Communicating with Young People…What do they want from Practitioners?

Background

 The ‘Workforce: The Young Voice” report highlighted the views of young people about what characteristics and behaviours they wanted to see from their workforce.

 The intention of this training is to build on this research by supporting young people from ‘hard to reach communities’ to develop and deliver training for practitioners on what young people want from practitioners, under the title of the ‘B Heard Project’. To prepare for this focus groups have been held, and filmed, and the training follows on from this.

 This one day training is developed and delivered by the B HEARD Group, (a group of young people (16-19yrs old) from Lewisham and Tower Hamlets originally formed as partas part of the CWDC Participation programme). They have researched and produced a DVD about the opinions of their peers about what works (and what doesn’t) for Practitioners wishing to engage effectively with young people. They have then put together this exciting and innovative one day training course, which they  deliver themselves.

 Outcomes

The professionals receiving the training will gain by being better trained and having more skills and becoming more confident in working in a better way with young people from a wide range of different backgrounds.

Practitioner attending will become aware of the characteristics which will allow to effective communication and engagement with young people across cultural barriers, by ensuring that they can share Common values.

 Target group:

Both new and experienced frontline practitioners working with young people, who want to find out what the young people themselves really think.

Schedule

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