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Cultivating Young Leaders to Bring About Change
10 January 2011
Cultivating Young Leaders to Bring About Change
Our society faces a new generation of challenges, and leadership skills are vital in enabling them to succeed. A new publication from The Youth of Today reveals how we can cultivate young leaders to take the lead and bring about change.
Today, The Youth of Today launches Challenge and Lead, a new publication that offers young people a five stage plan to support leadership and challenge.
Developed by the National Youth Agency (NYA), the resource will help young people identify issues that are important to them, organise a campaign, challenge decision makers and bring about change. It has been developed through work with young people across the country and builds on the National Youth Agency’s Hear by Right standards and Act by Right practice. It is available as a free download from both The Youth of Today’s website and the NYA’s website.
The resource’s five-stage plan provides activities on forming a working relationship within the group; identifying issues to explore; formulating an action plan; developing and delivering a campaign; and reviewing what’s changed. It has been developed in conjunction with a group of young people making up The Youth of Today’s Youth Leadership Team who continue to use, review and develop the Challenge and Lead resource moving forward.
Maxine Green, NYA Associate who has worked with young people to produce the resource, said: “Challenge and Lead can be used by professionals working with young people, peer educators or groups of young people with some experience of working together. We hope they will find it useful in inspiring and enabling leadership.”
Groups using Challenge and Lead will gain a national profile for their campaign by having it included on the NYA website and in Children and Young People Now magazine. All young people participating will also receive a certificate.
Challenge and Lead is the culmination of over a year’s work done by the NYA for The Youth of Today with young people and organisations across England.
For further information visit http://www.nya.org.uk/challenge-and-lead
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For further media information CONTACT:
Holly-Marie Draper
Email hollyd@nya.org.uk
Telephone 07921 687847
Notes to Editors
The resource is available at www.nya.org.uk/challengeandlead and http://www.globaloptimists.org/content/leadership-resources
The Youth of Today (formerly the National Body for Youth Leadership) is a consortium of leading youth organisations working together to increase the quality, quantity and diversity of opportunities for young people as leaders of change in their communities. Aimed at young people aged 13 to 19, it is led by The National Youth Agency, supported by British Youth Council, Changemakers, Prince's Trust, UK Youth Parliament and The Young Foundation and provides opportunities to take youth leadership to a new level, raising the quality of provision and quantity and reach of leadership opportunities available to young people. Find out more at www.theyouthoftoday.org
The National Youth Agency works in partnership with a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations to support and improve services for young people. Through our activities we want to ensure that young people have a strong voice and positive influence in our society. Find out more at www.nya.org.uk
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