This project recognises the work already being carried out by youth workers in building positive relationships with young people, and aims to build on this to integrate and further develop literacies within youth work. It believes literacies are not a"bolt on" to youth provision but rather an integral part of it.
Training will be delivered over five sessions and will cover the following themes:
The training is being piloted at the moment with youth work staff in Edinburgh. A second training course is currently being negotiated for youth work practitioners based within Edinburgh City Council's statutory youth work teams.
2nd quarterly visit – 16th May 2005
During April an evaluation of the first training course took place and training materials were adapted accordingly, with Trainees’ comment and integrated literacies experiences added to the pack, highlighting the value of sessions within a youth work setting.
More Youth Workers were recruited for a second training course, and in the end, ten workers based in Northwest Edinburgh, attended the second course, during May 2005. In June a further two courses were delivered to ten workers, again in the Northwest of Edinburgh. Resources identified and chosen by workers have been ordered to enable them to develop integrated literacies in their clubs and put books into their ‘chill out’ zones.
All four training course have been evaluated and training materials adapted accordingly. A fifth, and last course in terms of To the Max, is about to get underway. After which the full training pack will be written up.
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