Facilitator Guide
Welcome and thank you for committing to take part and help support children and youth in your community as they become engaged, become decision makers and help influence others about the issues related to violence in young women’s lives.
This guide will help you as you navigate through the first year of the program, where young people, using the Young Decision Makers Model (YDM), will study the issue, have informed and meaningful discussions and make decisions about how to communicate what they have learned about violence in young women’s lives and the ideas they have with their community at large . In the second year we will add to this Facilitator Guide for you as you support youth in organizing and delivering to your community the tools they generate this year.
Young people between the ages of 12 and 21 will be meeting weekly with you to learn from one another on the issue of violence in young women’s lives. SC Blueprint uses a model of the Centre of Excellence for Youth Engagement (a program led by the Students Commission of Canada) called the Youth Engagement Framework.
As a starting place here is how we define youth engagement:
Youth Engagement is the meaningful participation in an activity, which has a focus outside of one’s self - the opportunity to contribute. It has head, heart, feet, and spirit - when you are engaged, you are thinking, feeling, doing something, and connecting with something larger than yourself. Our research words for head, heart, feet and spirit are cognitive, affective, behavioural and spiritual.
- Centre of Excellence for Youth EngagementOur research suggests that the more an activity, such as the SC Blueprint meetings, involves youth in planning and decision-making the more meaningful and rewarding it is for them. Your role as a facilitator is to provide a meaningful and engaging process each week this year.
