DIY Toolkit: Improving your community — getting children and young people involved
This guide provides tried and tested methods for encouraging young people to become actively involved in local community regeneration.
- Published
- October 2005
This guide is based on practical experience. It provides tried and tested methods of working, for adults interested in encouraging young people to become actively involved in their local community and its regeneration.
You will find this guide useful if you have a belief that young people are key to the wellbeing of the community. You therefore may want to create opportunities for them to have a role in local decisions and activities to improve their area. In particular, the guide is written to support adults with this kind of motivation but less experience in supporting young people’s participation.
The guide is aimed at adults. It sets out a process that includes:
- consulting young people about their views
- understanding their rights
- supporting them to put their ideas into action
- working alongside others to bring about real change.
The guide is based on the experience and learning from Save the Children's Community Partners Programme (2000 to 2005).
- Downoad DIY toolkit to improving your community (PDF 2,277KB).
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The learning contained in this report offers a contribution to our better understanding of what works in encouraging children and young people's effective involvement in communities.
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