Youth triggering systemic change

Youth Peer Training ForumBudapest, 28 Jan 2013Rachel Dechenne-Wickert

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Agenda

1.Presentation - 25min

Aim, Me, Wicked problems, Karibu, Examples

2.Q&A - 15min

3.Break - 5min

4.Brainstorming in groups- 30 min

5.Group Feedback - 30 min

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My aim of this session? Build up the Children’s Voice

http://youtu.be/Ko3e6G_7GY4

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one part of a web of living relationships (see video MY LINE ) Me

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What is a wicked problem?

• 1970’s : messy, intractable

• focus on patterns and relationships

• no one definition

• paradigm shift in the mode of thinking about the world: from a linear to a Living Systems perspective

• key elements of a LS: diversity, relationships and participation

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Welcome to the anthropocene era! Planet

video: http://www.igbp.net/5.1081640c135c7c04eb480001217.html

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Belgian Children & Ados Mental Health System National

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Karibu

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Examples1. UK: Paul Hamlyn Foundation & MHF - Right Here programme

• involve over 2000 CYP 16-25 years old in partnership with local statutory agencies (set up by government) and voluntary sectors agencies (NGOs).

• mental health prevention project , participatory budgeting and joint-commissioning of services, joint-creation of IT products, all stages of decision making process

2. EU: European Patients Forum, EC funded - Empathy project

• involve 30 CYP 14-25 years old, patients

• 4 day seminar with 10 EU policy-makers & 15 stakeholders in the fields of health, education, social & youth policy, co-design of project & co-implementation

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Brainstorming - Part 1: in groups (30min)

split in groups + nominate a rapporteur+ each person to pick up one picture

Task 1 - Intro round : 1min for each person

Task 2 - Each person to share 1 experience of participation

1. Identify age group, the type of activity, and at what stage(s) of the decision making did it feed into?

2. Locate it on the Level of involvement spectrum (low, medium, high) and rate it on the Ladder of Youth Voice (1 to 8). What hindered or helped you?

3. Make sure that the key (+/-) themes of the stories are captured on one big sheet of paper (e.g. word, drawing, sticky notes)

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Brainstorming - Part 2: group feedback (30min)

• Each rapporteur to share the stories that emerged in his group (5 min per group)

• Whole group reflection

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Type of activity

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Decision making process stages

CREATION (action-plan, testing

of ideas such as prototyping of

product)

EXPLORATION (research)

GOVERNANCE(Board, strategic

planning)

IMPLEMENTATION

MONITORING & EVALUATION

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Source: Putting Children at the Centre: A practical guide to children's participation

guidance to save the children practitioners working with children, Nov. 2010, http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/sites/default/files/docs/Putting_Children_at_the_Centre_final_%282%29_1.pdf

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Source:http://movementbuilding.movementstrategy.org/media/docs/1892_MSMC.pdf

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Spectrum of Youth LeadershipSource: Making-Space, Making Change-Profilles of Youth-Led & Youth Driven Organisation, Young Wisdom Project 2004, p16.http://movementbuilding.movementstrategy.org/media/docs/1892_MSMC.pdf

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