Empowerment Outcomes

Resources for each of the Empowerment learning outcomes can be found at the links below. 

I want to understand children and young people’s evolving capacity.

I want to support children and young people of all ages and backgrounds to express their views and have the chance to talk about what is important to them.

I want to take children and young people’s views into account in decisions that affect them.

I want to give children and young people information about things that affect them in a way they find easy to understand.

I want to support children and young people as human rights defenders, to stand up for their own rights and for the rights of other children and young people.

I want to ensure that children and young people are given spaces (in person and online) where they can freely associate and advocate for their rights.

I want to build empowering relationships with children and young people.

I want to be sufficiently trauma-informed to ensure that my work supports children and young people who have experienced or are experiencing trauma.

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