Engaging Young People Seminar (Plymouth)

Want to enhance how you can engage children and young people in civic roles?

Want to better understand the new duty to inform, consult and involve, and help to implement local mechanisms for young people to participate?

Young Advisors is working with the Community Development Foundation to provide nine free seminars across the country to disseminate research on what young people have identified as the key barriers and enablers to their involvement.  Training co-delivered by young people, will offer delegates practical tools to inspire engagement in their communities.

All workshops will take place between 11 and 4 and will include lunch.

Young Advisors is an exciting and innovative national programme, giving young people a voice and platform to make improvements to their community.  Working as paid consultants, Young Advisors, aged between 15 and 21, will help you understand what it is like for young people to live, work, learn and play in today’s world.

People who should attend:

·       Commissioners of services for young people

·       Those who champion youth participation in their organisation

·       Elected members

·       Housing associations

·       Youth Managers and Workers from all sectors

·       Frontline staff working with communities

·       Young people

Seminar will cover:

·       Understanding the national context of youth engagement and the duty to involve

·       Youth lead research on barriers and enablers to young people’s empowerment

·       Practical tools and support for the engagement of young people

·       Learning about Young Advisors