Modulul 6
1. Overview
Title: Stakehol der’s analysis
Format: online
Duration: 30min
Specifics: learners will use their smartphones, pen & paper
At the end of the module the learner will have a complete picture of what is a stakeholder, how to
perform a stakeholder’s analysis and a SWOT analysis.
- This section refers to the terminology of stakeholder, what is a SWOT analysis
- Then a video is presented and finally there is an exercise based on what was presented, where the trainees have to answer using their mobile phone.
Stakeholder analysis – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXCo92Iag3g ;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP2MZscvFl8
SWOT analysis
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXXHqM6RzZQ
During the specific training module the trainer will present the module in detail, solve questions and discuss with the learners everything that was presented in the module.
Menu index & Legend
This one slide provides direct links to each section of the document
2. Introduction
This session focuses on resources and activities which can be used to maximise the impact of youth work in a number of areas so that young people are supported, feel their voices are heard and are better equipped for the world of work.
Impact in youth work has been broken down into types and will include a valuable resource activity that youth workers can take into consideration when it comes to their organisations and training sessions to maximise their impact as youth workers, followed by an activity after each type of impact has been discussed.
To help define these impacts that will be covered in this session, we will first look at the definitions of each impact type related to youth work, reasons why these types need to be identified and how to identify them.
3. Defining impact - types:
Professor Mark Reed, Director of Engagement & Impact at Newcastle University, proposes ten types of impact:
A. Understanding and awareness – meaning your research helped people understand an issue better than they had before
B. Health and well-being – your research led to better outcomes for individuals or groups
C. Capacity or preparedness – research that helps individuals and groups better cope with changes that might otherwise have a negative impact.
D. Attitudinal – your research helped lead to a change in attitudes
E. Economic – your research contributed to cost savings, or costs avoided; or increases in revenue, profits or funding
F. Environmental – benefits arising from your research aid genetic diversity, habitat conservation and ecosystems
G. Policy – your research contributed to new or amended guidelines or laws
H. Other forms of decision-making and behavioural impacts
I. Cultural – changes in prevailing values, attitudes and beliefs
Other social impacts –such as access to education or improvement in human rights
3. Defining impact - reasons:
Mark Taylor, Head of Impact at the National Institute for Health Research, says that there are four broad reasons for measuring impact:
- Advocacy – helping gain support from the public, funders, government etc
- Accountability – showing what you are achieving with your work
- Analysis – finding out which approaches to research are most effective
Allocation – considering where it is most appropriate to invest research funding.
3. Defining impact - tips:
- Think about the impact you aim to achieve for each target group one at a time.
- Remember that impact is sustained over the long-term. It’s potentially something that’s achieved after your project has run its course. Ask yourself how you want your target group to be better off in a year, or even five years’ time because of your work.
- Impact is something important and meaningful: reduced offending, increased employment, improved wellbeing, a change in policy etc.
- Impact is something your target group will achieve for themselves, in their own lives. Our services and campaigns don’t make people healthy, educated or informed; people do that for themselves. Charities help people make these changes through outcomes.
- Impact is something that you will contribute to, alongside others.
- Try to keep impact statements succinct; one or two sentences is ideal. For example, reduced reoffending, increased wellbeing, increased employment, a change in the law.
4. The YOUTH IMPACT+ Exercise Tool
HOW THE TOOL WORKS?
Click here: https://www.youthimpactplus.eu/
Click here for the tool: https://www.youthimpactplus.eu/
Click here to download the material: Impact Exercise (English Material)
6. Impact Type: Understanding and Awareness
Beyond Hate is an activity resource that youth workers can use with young people to explore and develop a better understanding and awareness in youth work settings. Focused on the youth worker, and their practice, it looks at self-awareness, taking a needs-based approach, and building connections with young people through empathetic listening.
The game is accompanied with a manual which aims to create an impact in youth work by supporting the youth worker in recognising and tackling situations where hate speech occurs within a youth setting and has the ambition to support the youth worker’s practice in becoming transformative.
Manual includes multiple activities for youth workers on topics relating to building awareness to impact hate and discrimination within youth work settings. Ranging from 30-90 minutes.
Game of Life (pictured) enables people to learn how to build compassion, empathy and understanding for others and takes roughly 75-85 minutes.
Link to manual and boardgame
7. Understanding and Awareness Exercise
1) What impacts does the manual and board game hope to achieve?
a. Transforming hate and discrimination in youth work settings through empathy building
b. Making youth workers aware of up to date policies that can affect youth work
c. Teaching young people how to deal with stress and anxiety
2. Can this resource be used in a group setting?
a.Yes
b.No
8. Impact Type: Health and Wellbeing
Young people’s mental wellbeing often affects their personal life and future development. CuraJoy recognises this through their aim to support young people of all cultures.
CuraJoy has developed an evidence-based approach with technology to measure wellness based on a series of questions along with provided advice based on an individual’s results.
Try the mental health assessment here
9. Impact Type: Health and Wellbeing
Youth workers may also benefit from checking out these three documents featuring checklists related to emotional wellness, social wellness, and environmental wellness
Environmental Wellness Checklist
What surrounds you each day in your home, work, or neighborhood can affect your health. Here are some tips to make your environments safer:
Emotional wellness is the ability to successfully handle life’s stresses and adapt to change and difficult times. Here are tips for improving your emotional health:
Positive social habits can help you build support systems and stay healthier mentally and physically. Here are some tips for connecting with others:
10. Health and Wellbeing Impact Exercise
Knowledge Check
- What three general components may affect both health and wellbeing?
a. Environmental, social, emotional
b. Economy, social, environment
c. Education, environmental, emotional
- Other than a result based off of answers you have put down, what else does CuraJoy’s assessment provide at the end?
a. Help links
b. A link to their site’s other resources
c. Tailored advice based off of your result
11. Impact Type: Preparedness
Council of Europe recognises that youth work is diverse all over Europe and so many organisations and governments practice differently and have had to adapt to many changes. However, they suggest that building an understanding of values and basic knowledge of what is important within youth work can help to then apply a youth workers skills in many situations.
Another approach to youth work was gamification (10 minute read), allowing some young people who may prefer to learn a different way could get more involved through gamified learning. Link to video in German (English subtitles) Video is 3 minutes watch time.
12. Preparedness Exercise
Knowledge check
- According to Council of Europe, what are the six components specifying ‘what is youth work for’?
a. Enabling, empowering, emancipate, enjoy, engage, education
b. Enabling, employing, emancipate, enacting, enjoy, education
c. Engaging, enabling, enjoy, enriching, education, empowering
- Another approach to engagement with young people involved in youth work was gamification. Can this be an effective tool in introducing young people to various potentials for topic-centered educational work while within a safe environment?
a. Yes
b. No
13. Impact Type: Attitudinal
A World of Difference resources will support youth workers and volunteers to better understand and deliver workshops on visible difference to their groups and communities – which has ultimately affected attitudes towards groups of people. The resources were developed to help youth workers and volunteers talk about visible difference within their groups and change attitudes through greater awareness and understanding. These groups and clubs can also provide a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone.
Link to resource on how to hold these workshops. Page 11 – activity number 1
14. Attitudinal Impact Exercise
Knowledge check
- What does the A World Of Difference resource aim to accomplish?
a.Provide a welcoming and inclusive space for everyone through awareness
b.Changing the policies of youth work
c.Developing a better understanding of mental wellbeing
- Can an unconscious bias be a result of how we are brought up or what we see in the media?
a.Yes
b.No
15. Impact Type: Economic
Image 1 – Analysis Graph
An exercise to measure the value of benefits and outcomes vs losses within a youth organisation by analysing its impact on young people to determine what areas are successful and what needs improving.
Image 2 – Youth Work Project Economic Calculator
The second image also considers what should be taken into consideration when calculating value put into youth projects to determine cost vs impact. Page 22 details an example of this calculator in practice.
Resource – page 11 for analysis graph and page 22-24 for youth work project economic impact calculator
16. Economic Impact Exercise
Knowledge check
- Before using the Youth Work Project Economic Calculator, what three questions/components should be answered?
a.Impact, cost, profit
b.Cost, resources, impact
c.Outcome, impact, cost
- Is participation in public life a soft indicator of a social outcome?
a.Yes
b.No
17. Impact Type: Environmental
Today, more than 100 countries have legislation that requires an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) to be carried out for any project that may highly impact the ecosystems where it is due to take place.
Take the EIA knowledge test (5 min): EIA: What? Why? When? – EIA Online Learning Platform (iisd.org)
These questions can also be printed as a paper version for your activities
Also watch this 6 minutes video on Strategic Environmental Assessment to learn more about the Screening, Scoping, Analysis, Decision Making, Monitoring process
18. Environmental Impact Exercise
Knowledge check
- What does EIA mean?
a.Environmental Issues Assessment
b.Energy Improvement Assessment
c.Environmental Impact Assessment
- What does SEA promote?
a.Social development within communities
b.Public trust in decision making and economic growth
c.Coastal conservation
19. Impact Type: Policy
The Centre For Youth Impact highlights the importance of measuring the outcomes of policy and effective approaches to youth work. The guide asks youth workers to consider these four components (featured below) when analysing the effectiveness of policy or why these policies are in place.
Activity:
Take 10 minutes to read through these components and then discuss what you or your organisation does in relation to these
20. Impact Type: Policy
The guide also features an activity through a series of questions on page 25 where youth workers can self-assess their approaches and organisation’s own policies that have an impact on their youth work.
Click the image to view the self-assessment resource activity on page 25
21. Impact Type: Behavioural
Mental Health Resources For Children and Young People | YoungMinds – View the resource site here
Click either picture to access the resource!
22. Behavioural Exercise
Knowledge check
- What are the two provided techniques useful for?
a.Building a supportive relationship between youth workers and young people
b.Grounding a young person who may feel overwhelmed
c.Helping a young person to manage anger
- Can these activities be done without the use of paper, pen, etc.?
a.Yes
b.No
23. Impact Type: Cultural
The Annie E. Casey Foundation was formed to develop solutions in transforming struggling communities into safer and healthier environments to live, work and grow. The Equity Conversation Guide For Young Leaders and Partners was put together to discuss inequality and the effects this has on communities that young people are apart of.
This table from the guide details definitions of forms of racism (an attribute of cultural inequality) along with the possible strategies to address these issues.
24. Impact Type: Cultural
Exercise
Here is an activity provided from the guide to discuss issues relating to concepts of inequality
25. Impact Type: Cultural
The table displayed here shows an example of putting into perspective the split between groups of young people. While the data is fictional, the chart is aiming to demonstrate to youth workers that cultural differences should be considered within their work in order to understand and then maximise their impact.
26. Impact Type: Cultural
Exercise
Please take some time to analyse and discuss the image provided from the guide.
27. Impact Type: Social
The Social Impact Management Tool For Young Social Entrepreneurs guide was developed to encourage and inspire impact related to social change by developing a 4 stage guide. This guide can be beneficial to youth worker organisations hoping to improve on their social impact within the organisation and ultimately with the young people they work with.
‘The Problem Tree’ is one activity the guide developed as a way to identify what problems need solving, what can be done about solving them and visualises what are the direct and indirect issues.
Youth workers can take advantage of this activity in the context of their individual approaches, the organisation’s approach or general social issues within their local area relating to young people.
28. Social Impact Exercise
Knowledge check
- Is the guide beneficial to social entrepreneurs who are both just starting out and those who are already operating?
a.Yes
b.No
- How many stages of the guide are there?
a.2
b.6
c.4
29. Exercise Answers
Impact Type Knowledge Check Answers
Health and Wellbeing
A, C
Preparedness
A, A
Attitudinal
A, A
Economic
C, A
Environmental
C, B
Social
A, C
29. Tools for self-assessment of competences
Use the Youthpass for self-assessment of competencies:
YouthPass is a process of reflection that helps to define and describe learning outcomes in a youth project, leading to a certificate that documents these learning outcomes
Youthpass is the recognition instrument developed for the projects realised in the European youth programmes. Through the Youthpass certificate, participation in such projects can be recognised as an educational experience and a period of non-formal and informal learning. Youthpass foresees a process applied throughout the project life-cycle to support the learning of participants. It also serves as a strategy that improves the recognition of non-formal learning in Europe.
30. Impact thinking approach
31. Referencing
National Youth Council of Ireland – Beyond Hate (2019) https://www.youth.ie/articles/transforming-hate-in-youth-work-settings/
NSW Government – Youth Health and Wellbeing Assessment (2018) , 10 https://www1.health.nsw.gov.au/pds/ActivePDSDocuments/GL2018_003.pdf
Young Minds – Resources and Advice https://www.youngminds.org.uk/professional/resources/?topic=practical-tools-for-support#main-content
Council of Europe – Youth Work Essentials https://www.coe.int/en/web/youth-portfolio/youth-work-essentials
Produktionsschule spacelab_kreativ, Association Viennese youth centres – Virtual Reality in Youth Work (EN) Virtual Reality in youth work (EN) – digitalyouthwork.eu
Changing Faces – A world of Difference (2022), 12 Youth Work Resources | Visible Difference & Disfigurement (changingfaces.org.uk)
Local Government Association, The Young Foundation, National Youth Agency (Sophie Moullin, Neil Reeder and Bethia McNeil) – Informing investment in youth work Measuring value and strengthening the evidence base , 11, 22-24 https://youngfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Informing-Investment-in-Youth-Work-.pdf
CuraJoy https://www.curajoy.org/?msclkid=9277024cd1931bc62c616655ad385990
National Institutes of Health www.nih.gov
YMCA George Williams College Homepage | Centre for Youth Impact
The Annie E. Casey Foundation Ensuring the Future of At-Risk Youth – The Annie E. Casey Foundation (aecf.org)
Social Value UK Maximise Your Impact – A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs – Social Value UK
International Institute For Sustainable Development EIA: What? Why? When? – EIA Online Learning Platform (iisd.org)
4. Impact Type: Health and Wellbeing
Health in Youth Work
The Essential Youth Healthcare Skills Training Manual (Australia, 2nd Edition) outlines how to deliver a one-day workshop to a group of health professionals. The flow diagram below provides a basic assessment on how to engage, assess and respond to the health needs and risks of young people, and to reduce barriers to young people accessing health services.
Pictured is a youth health and wellbeing flow diagram assessment (page 10)
