Participation Works

Social Media & Social Networking course for Youth Professionals & Managers.
Accreditation - OCN (South West Region) Level 2
Date: Wednesday 28th April & Thursday 29th April 2010
Training venue: In Tuition Venue, 210 Borough High Street, London, SE1 1JX

Social media and social networking sites can amplify the positives and negatives of
everyday life for young people, and can expose them to new opportunities and new risks. These online digital tools can offer a diverse range of opportunities to engage with young people and promote their participation in local youth services. Explore both how to support young people as they engage in these environments; and learn how to practically and creatively use social media and social networking to enhance the delivery of young people service(s). Objective of the training course is to enable delegates to create a practical online strategy to integrate into their work supported with a professional qualification to evidence their understanding and learning.

Collaboratively Katie Bacon and Tim Davies have been researching and developing
methodologies and polices in the practical application of online social media platforms & social networking to engage young people about local issues. The training course below has been developed to bring together both the theory and practice of digital youth work.

Delegates can choose to attend one day training or both training sessions.

1 day Introduction to social media & social networking sites for Youth Professionals & Managers (Delivered by Katie Bacon)
Accreditation - OCN (South West Region) Level 2 - Credit 2
Date: Wednesday 28th April 2010 (10am-4.30pm)

Learning outcomes:

• Understand how to create a social network profile, change privacy settings, invite friends & change settings to control what information is displayed on front profile page & news feed.
• Discussing & identifying opportunities and challenges for using social media in a professional context;
• Understand how young people use social media
• Understand the key issues to consider when involved in digital work with young people (informed consent, contracting boundaries, verifying identities, safeguarding, parental/career consent)
• Learn how to create a short film clip, upload to Youtube and add annotations
• Understand how to integrate social media into your work as a youth professional and devise a strategy for how to take this forward
• Understand how to promote basic online safety and digital literacy;

1 day Intermediate Social Media & Social Networking course for Youth Professionals & Managers (Delivered by Katie Bacon & Tim Davies)
Accreditation -OCN (South West Region) Level 2 - Credit 4 (if both days attended)
Date: Wednesday 28th April & Thursday 29th April 2010 (10am-4.30pm)
Learning outcomes:

• Create an online group and event to promote a youth activity, service and/or an organisation
• Understand how to utilise online social network Ê»applicationsʼ to enhance the online profile/ group functions to young people
• Understand different social media consultation tools available online for online youth engagement/consultation
• Understand how to create a young person online questionnaire and integrate into a social network profile youth
• Understand how to create and facilitate an online discussion forum through a social network profile
• Understand the key issues to consider with online consultations with young people (informed consent, communicating whom will have access to consultation data & evidencing what change if any has occurred)
• Recognise & understand associate risks & safe guarding considerations with online consultations/forum discussions
• Understand appropriate youth professional online interventions and signposting young people to local/online youth services

Katie Bacon is an experienced youth worker, who has pioneered models of online youth work and youth engagement with a diverse range of young people’s groups in Devon. Katie runs Online Youth Outreach and has delivering training and capacity building in the use of the Internet in youth engagement settings to organizations across the UK. Tim Davies is a specialist in social media, youth participation and online social networking, and is co-author of ‘Youth Work and Social Networking’ (NYA 2008) and ‘Social Media & Youth Participation in Local Democracy’ (LGIU, 2009) . Tim is also a member of the UK Council on Child Internet Safety, and currently a full-time student studying for an MSc in Social Science of the Internet at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Pricing:
Statutory Youth Professional - £125 per delegate per day (excluding VAT)
Voluntary Sector Youth Professional - £100 per delegate per day (excluding VAT)
15% discount available off day 2 training's costs for delegates booking both training dates
Directions & transport info to venue: http://www.roomhire.biz/location.html
To retain a booking, please email: info@katiebacon.co.uk