Slides of presentation at Europe-wide Youth Forum on Peer Training in Budapest. For narrative content go to Blog: http://rdwbizz.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/youth-triggering-systemic-changein.html

1. Youth triggering systemic change
Youth Peer Training Forum
Budapest, 28 Jan 2013
Rachel Dechenne-Wickert
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2. 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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3. http://youtu.be/Ko3e6G_7GY4
My aim of this session? Build up the Children’s Voice
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4. one part of a web of living relationships
(see video MY LINE ) Me
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5. 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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6. video: http://www.igbp.net/5.1081640c135c7c04eb480001217.html
Welcome to the anthropocene era! Planet
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7. Belgian Children & Ados
Mental Health System National
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8. Karibu
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9. Examples
1. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. Type of
activity
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13. Decision making process stages
GOVERNANCE
(Board, strategic
planning)
EXPLORATION
(research)
MONITORING
& EVALUATION CREATION
(action-plan, testing
of ideas such as
prototyping of
product)
IMPLEMENTATION
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14. 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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15. Source:
http://movementbuilding.movementstrategy.org/media/docs/1892_MSMC.pdf
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16. Spectrum of Youth Leadership
Source: 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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