GYA Training

If your organisation chooses to run a Global Youth Action Project the youth workers will have the opportunity to receive training in the theory and practice of GYW in preparation for running a project.

The training will be tailored to the needs and interests of your workers with the aim of making them feel confident and fully prepared to run a GYAP. The length, timing and content of the training will be negotiated with your workers but past packages of training have included:

2 x 2-hour participatory training sessions shared by two separate organisations. These were run during the day at the office of one of the organisations and covered issues such as the history of global youth work; what is globalisation and how to introduce global issues to youth work practice
Direct support for the first 5 sessions of a 6 month GYAP. Leeds DEC staff worked with a youth worker to plan the initial few sessions of a GYAP then attended these sessions, making agreed inputs, giving informal support within the sessions and de-breifings after sessions.

We strive to offer the most appropriate and useful training possible to each organisation but with every project we aim to ensure that the workers feel both confident in their knowledge of the history and theory of Global Youth Work and able to plan and deliver a successful GYAP.