Empowering Children and Young People Training
Duration: 60 minutes
The Empowering Children and Young People e-learning video explores the important role that children’s empowerment can play as a protective factor within organisational contexts. This is an important element of the Safeguarding Framework as identified by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and is often an area that many individuals and organisations struggle to comprehend and implement.
This e-Learning video is designed for those who work with children and young people in a parish, agency or entity context including:
- Parish priest
- Safeguarding Committee members
- Pastoral associate
- Sacramental Preparation Leaders
- Youth Group Leaders
- Children’s Liturgy Leaders
- Children’s Choir Leaders
In this video we explore children’s rights and responsibilities as well as the legislative requirements in relation to children’s participation in organisations. Throughout the video, we demonstrate what child participation and engagement looks like in a parish context by using practical examples, hearing from children themselves, highlighting parish case studies, conducting a gap analysis of a parish group working directly with children as well as exploring the parish self-assessment tool.
Available resources relevant to this e-Learning video:
Australian Human Rights Commission 12 Key Rights in the Convention
Worryometer
Helping hand
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child – Child friendly version
CPSL – A ‘how -to guide’ for engaging children and young people in conversations about safeguarding
Protection through participation: Involving children in child safe organisations
Taking us Seriously – report
Other Resources:
Template Parish or Entity Child Safety Assessment Tool
Gap Analysis activity
Encouraging the particiption of children and young people with decision making
Empowering children and young people
Consulting with Children and Young People