Youth Achievement Awards
Young people are able to receive an accredited certificate that recognises their individual contribution to the activities in which they are involved.
The Awards:
- Recognise and accredit young people's achievements
- Encourage progressive responsibility and ownership of learning
- Provide a mechanism by which to measure the quality of work with young people
- Reinforce good practice
- Encourage participation and social inclusion
- Use peer education
- Young people are encouraged to take on progressive levels of responsibility through involvement in a wide range of self-identified activities.
Enabling young people to:
- Enhance self awareness and self-esteem
- Develop communication skills and resolve differences by negotiation
- Get on with and work well with others
- Explore and manage feelings
- Understand and identify with others
- Develop values
- Plan ahead
By empowering young people to choose the activities they will complete to achieve their Awards they develop a sense of ownership of their activities and the learning involved. Groups of young people (of similar ages and experience) are used to assess and support young people through the Awards process. This develops a range of social skills that includes negotiation, problem solving, communication, working with others etc.
There are reviewing and recording procedures which promote the development of study skills through planning, reviewing, recording and creating a personal portfolio. All of Bread's work contributes to Youth Achievement Awards and is supported by our youth workers.
Youth Achievement Awards are co-ordinated nationally by UK Youth