What is it?
- Empowers community change.
- Youth organise projects, have fun, make friends & build their CV.
- Tackles mental health, community cohesion & safety.
- Projects include peer mentoring, filmmaking, festivals & campaigns.
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Main description
Fitzrovia Youth in Action is Camden and Westminster’s leading youth action charity. We empower young people to create positive change for themselves, their peers and the wider community.
Description
Have fun and make friends!
Our young people tell us they feel part of something and have made friends here – young people work as a team, share food, use games, interactive activities AND go on trips to celebrate their work together at the end of projects! You make a difference and we put the SOCIAL in social action!
Gain confidence and skills!
Whether you are an aspiring photographer, designer, nurse, entrepreneur or unsure of what you might want to do in the future - you already have lots of skills and interests you can bring to any team and project. At FYA you can also develop these and gain new skills such as confidence, teamwork, problem solving, leadership and decision making.
By joining our programmes, you will gain AQA certificates, build your CV and learn how to articulate your newly gained skills in interviews or applications!
Get involved in your community!
We don’t think you are just ‘the future,’ we recognise you already have experiences and ideas to make a difference now. Whether in your school, where you live or a community linked to an issue you care about, you have the power to make positive change for you, your friends and peers and communities across Camden and Westminster!
Accordion
- Young people finding support after CAMHS
Members of Fitzrovia Youth in Action (FYA), a leading youth action charity who work with young people in Camden and Westminster, have got together to design a peer support programme where young people support each other after leaving CAMHS. The group were trained as peer mentors and ran their own peer support sessions as well as making recommendations for CAMHS services about embedding peer support pre and post accessing CAMHS.
For more information about peer support groups and peer mentoring and what we offer email abbie.mitchell@fya.org.uk or call: 07546324397
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- Youth at the heart from the start - masterclass
Fitzrovia Youth in Action is proud to offer a series of Masterclasses to individuals and organisations who work with young people based on our youth social action experience delivering peer-led programmes.
This Masterclass is designed to support those who are working with young people to understand how to successfully involve young people in activities AND how to co-produce with young people without the fear of tokenism.
The Masterclass will include sections on the following:
- What is the difference between Youth Participation and Co-production?
- Youth Participation in different settings (1-to-1, group settings, diverse young people, etc.)
- Co-production methods
- Ladder of participation
- Celebrating and valuing youth-led work
- Examples of meaningful participation
- Extrinsic and intrinsic motivations for youth engagement – what techniques can help
- Youth-led and adult-led balances & sharing power with young people
- Troubleshooting – share worries and group peer support on this solution-focused approach
Who should attend?
Anyone who is interested in developing their youth participation skills and would like to involve young people in producing content and/or facilitating activities alongside staff members at your organisation.
The aim is to develop your knowledge of how to incorporate different youth participation techniques in different settings, explore best practices, and consider what creates and makes an environment for young people to participate, engage, and be willing to co-present with staff members
How do I sign up?
To register email Abbie Mitchell abbie.mitchell@fya.org.uk
Download the poster below.
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