Enable young people to be active citizens
Overview
Who is this unit for?
This unit is for those who support pupils in citizenship lessons and/or community-based activities.
What is this unit about?
This unit is about working with young people to enable them to investigate and understand the issues within their communities and their role within their community. It is about helping them to identify their power for action and enabling them to present their ideas and views to others.
This unit contains two elements:
1. Assist young people to understand their communities and their own role within them
2. Enable young people to communicate their views and interests to others,
and to negotiate and influence people and situations
Performance criteria
You must be able to:
Assist young people to understand their communities and their own role within them
P1 enable young people to identify clearly the various communities within which they live
P2 work with young people to identify local issues of importance to them P3 create opportunities for young people to explore wider issues affecting
them and their communities
P4 assist young people to recognise their roles, rights and responsibilities as individuals and in their communities
P5 assist young people to identify and appreciate differing views of groups and individuals within their communities
P6 enable young people to understand decision making processes within their communities
P7 enable young people to identify potential points of influence within the community
P8 assist young people to identify and develop their influencing skills
P9 enable young people to understand the effect of their actions on other groups and individuals within the community
Enable young people to communicate their views and
interests to others and to negotiate and influence people and situations
P10 work with young people to identify and confirm the position and views that they wish to present, and the people they want to present to
P11 work with young people to develop a clear articulation of their position and views
P12 agree with young people what support they will need when presenting their position and views
P13 work with young people to ensure that presentations are realistic and meet requirements set by others
P14 enable young people to explain, ask and answer questions and negotiate their position and view
P15 agree processes and success criteria and monitor progress with young people
P16 work with young people to review and act on outcomes of their presentation
Knowledge and Understanding
You need to know and understand:
K1 different types of communities
K2 internal and wider issues affecting young people in their communities K3 roles, rights and responsibilities of individuals and groups in relation to
communities and society
K4 legal requirements, equal opportunities and anti-discriminatory practice K5 the way in which special interest groups such as young people interact
with other special interest groups within the community K6 decision-making processes in various communities
K7 why it is important to build young people's confidence in their ability to influence the situations in which they operate
K8 how to assist young people to develop and use a range of influencing skills
K9 assertiveness and confidence building techniques
K10 why it is important to encourage young people to develop and present their views and needs themselves
K11 a range of methods for developing a presentation or business case K12 a range of sources of information (e.g. grant application guidelines,
needs analyses, own and organisational objectives) which could be used when developing presentations or business cases
K13 what kinds of skills young people may be able to contribute in preparing presentations or business cases
K14 the aims, objectives and values of the young people and those of the decision makers
K15 how to enable young people to make effective presentations K16 how to work with young people to build their negotiation skills
K17 how to review the outcomes of presentations
Scope/range
Scope Performance
Scope Knowledge
Values
Behaviours
Skills
Glossary
Assist young people to understand their communities and their own role within them
communities:
may include social, employment, educational, ethnic, religious
wider issues:
issues related to youth work and other issues, local and national issues
groups and individuals:
may be related to culture, religion, interest, formal and informal groups, community groups based on locality or common interest, new or well established, groups experiencing disadvantage, discrimination or oppression
decision making processes:
formal and informal, local and wider based
points of influence:
formal and informal, with individuals and groups
Enable young people to communicate their views and
interests to others and to negotiate and influence people and situations
others:
may include decision makers, people inside and outside their own organisation, formal and informal groups
presentations
for individuals, groups; formal, informal; written, verbal
Links To Other NOS
Origin of this unit
This unit is taken from the National Occupational Standards in Youth Work, where it appears as unit A3.