Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Encourage and support young people to develop and use networks
- Identify and note young people’s issues, needs or interests in community issues
- Encourage and support young people to identify common issues, needs and interests
- Discuss possibilities for responding to identified common issues, needs and interests
- Provide opportunities for young people with similar interests or needs
- Support and encourage young people to identify relationships between their issues/interests and social structures
- Encourage young people to work together to take joint action
- Support young people to come together to plan collective action
- Ensure young people have the relevant skills and knowledge to operate in a collective way
- Map and monitor youth participation processes, particularly decision-making and inclusion processes of groups
- Provide support, encouragement and opportunities to young people to enable them to communicate and interact with others to coordinate a planned action
- Support young people to identify and form alliances with key stakeholders
- Identify other stakeholders interested in the issue or strategy
- Gauge the interest, resources and possible roles of stakeholders
- Support young people in contacting, informing and negotiating alliances with stakeholders
- Assist young people and stakeholders to maintain appropriate contact and information flow
- Encourage young people to acknowledge key stakeholder support
- Support young people to implement their strategies or action plans
- Assist young people to monitor and evaluate strategies
- Support groups to monitor and record progress
- Assist groups to identify outcomes and consequences (intended or unintended) of their actions on an ongoing basis
- Evaluate strategies and group processes
- Provide reports of outcomes as appropriate to stakeholders and within the organisation
- Celebrate achievements, including personal development, skills development and social change