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A few thoughts on… Digital Youth Work and Communicating with Young People What social media is in this context Communicating with young people; the youth work context Why does this interest me YES success, a case study How do we do it – 2 barriers and overcoming them
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A few thoughts on…
Digital Youth Work and Communicating with Young People
What social media is in this contextCommunicating with young people; the youth work contextWhy does this interest meYES success, a case studyHow do we do it – 2 barriers and overcoming them
What is Social Media?“Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social relationships, interactions and networking.”
The 4 Cornerstones
Youth work, according to me is based on:
Finally – who am I and why do I like to think about this?
The thirst for knowledge and ideas from other youth workers IS STILL THERE
COLLABORATORS
YES Success
Work with young people who are NEET
Track young people as they leave college/school.
Where ‘YES’ fits in to the Youth Service
Detached Team
Teenage pregnancy and Sexual Health
Targeted Youth Work
TeamOpen Access Team
(youth clubs)
Participation Team
Advocacy Team
YES
INVITED TO DROPP-IN, TRAINING,
APPOINTMENT, SUPPORT SESSION
OR WORKSHOP
ONLINE INFORMATION,
ADVICE, GUIDENCE
AND SUPPORT
INDIVIDUAL WORKER PROFILES
PUBLICLY SHARED POSTS,
SHARES, PICTURES
FRIEND REQUESTS
FACEBOOK CHAT
YES FACEBOOK
PAGE
Initial contactYoung people ‘funneled into the ‘medium’ for online work
The ‘work’
So, Social Media is:
A ‘means’ to an ‘end’
A tool for doing the actual youth work through online
communication
A tool for promoting the service
An automatic multiplier
An efficient and effective way to contact young people
A way to support young people in a time of need
SAFEGUARDING INTELLEGENCE
Two common Barriers
• Knowing what medium to use – keeping up
• Keeping young people and youth workers safe
Barrier 1: Keeping up
Young peoples
leadership group
Facebook poll
Ask young people whilst they are with you
Young peoples
communications group
standing item during team meetings Trend watching blogs
Be present! Be on twitter – if it’s new and
happening someone will be tweeting about it
Standing item on team meetings
• During regular team meetings
• During supervision or 1:1 worker support sessions
• Informally – any info is good info
• One person (not a manager) responsible for keeping track of any intelligence on social media trends
Young Peoples’ committee
• Young people know a lot about being a young people
• Young people know a lot about social media
• They can help with doing the work!
• Keeps staff teams focused and on track. Young people given the remit to hold staff and managers to account.
Youth Centre
West Beach Point
Bridge
Hopefully…
Barrier 2: Protecting yourself, colleagues, team and young people (and management!)
Scope. How will Social media be used to further the aims of the project.
How will social media not be used
Risk assessment. What are the risks to young people of having adults communicate with them on social media in a youth work context
What are the risks to workers.
How will these risks be minimized
What should use of social media look like. What would bad use of social media look like.
Youth worker friendly
• Create a simple and portable ‘using social media for staff’ guide
• Make checklists for staff
• Make accountability processes concrete and transparent
Checklist
How to keep up
Keep safe
Thoughts, feedback, questions
• What are your thoughts and comments?
• Any questions to me?
• Any questions to the rest of the group? Thank you from me!
Keep me posted with updates and goings on @youthworkandme Coming soon: youthworkandme.com
