Youth Achievement Awards

The Youth Achievement Awards are a peer education approach to recognising and accrediting young people's achievements. They are designed to encourage young people to take a more active role in the youth work activities that interest them.

Young people come together and form an Award Group. Members of the Award Group (guided by their Award Group Worker) are responsible for supporting each other to set and plan appropriate challenges and to identify the learning targets within them.

Once the young person has completed a challenge they review what they did and how they felt about it with their Award Group. Young people record their experiences in their challenge booklets and organise portfolios of evidence.

For more information on the Youth Achievement Awards, download the information pack here.

The Regional Youth Work Unit runs an Operating Agency for the Youth Achievement Awards. Our members are mainly local authority youth work services.

Twice a year we hold regional Internal Moderation meetings in preparation for portfolios going forward to ASDAN for assessment.

For more information on the Operating Agency, please contact Tessa on tessa@trhibbert.demon.co.uk 

Operating Agency information – Deadlines for Moderation

The next external assessment of portfolios in the South West region will be in Spring 2011.  If you would like a portfolio externally assessed more quickly than that, please contact Tessa Hibbert on 01373 832664. 

RESOURCES

UK YOUTH'S ENTERPRISE CHALLENGE PROGRAMME TOOLKIT – This is a FREE resource that links to the Youth Achievement Awards programme and provides sample challenges and targets to help recognise young people’s achievements in the area of enterprise. (Posted 15/4/11)