Portslade Community College » Village Centre

Portslade Community College, Village Centre offers a volunteer project for young people attending the youth group to work as senior member helpers in different youth group settings. The young people will all be working towards the Brighton and Hove Youth Achievement Awards. Each young person will be working closely with other qualified youth workers, they attend staff meetings and regular training.

On the 21st December 2005 we delivered a training day to all the senior member helpers, looking at ‘building relationships with young people’ 12 young people attended the day ages from 11 years through to 17 years, 3 males and 9 females. The session was run by two Youth Workers and one Connexions Personal Adviser.

Registration for Youth Achievement Award
How to build positive relationships with young people
Ideas and techniques on how to make
initial contact with young people
Examples of good practice

Senior Member Training Group

The aim of the training day was to deliver a programme, for the senior member helpers. To
enable the young people to gain confidence and knowledge on how to make and maintain
positive relationships with young people.

This was achieved by giving the young people the experience of coming together as a new group, trying out new skills with each other and discussing and evaluating issues that have arisen when working with young people in the past.

All young people are working towards, either Bronze, Silver, Gold Youth Achievement awards. The day supported this process by giving time to discuss and questions that have arisen while gaining these awards.

What was the best part of the day?
‘Doing ice breakers’, ‘spending time in the group’,
‘Being with friends’, ‘designing tools to work with young people’, ‘everything’.

What was the worst part of the day?
‘The scenarios’, ‘nothing’, ‘running our own ice breakers’.

What do you think you have learnt?
‘How to communicate with young people’, ‘how to treat young people’,
‘how to work with other young people’, ‘tools to work with young people and good practice ideas’.

Do you feel you have gained confidence in working with young people today?
12 - young people answered ‘yes’ and 0 - answered ‘no’

Young Peoples Evaluation
All young people that attended the training day said that they enjoyed the session and liked meeting other senior member helpers.
They were asked to evaluate the session by answering a series of questions.


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