Welcome to our website
This site will give you information about the District of Easington Youth Forum, it will also inform you about events for young people as well as other local organisations and services for young people.
THIS IS YOU'RE SITE so if you wish to add an article, join the forum or just comment on what we are doing then just drop us a line at info@deyf.org.uk
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For Youth Forum News See Media
WHAT IS THE DISTRICT OF EASINGTON YOUTH FORUM?
Easington Youth Forum’s ethos is for young people to have an active role in their communities, with fund-raising and commissioning powers. This was established by young people who wanted to not only have their views heard but wanted to be pro-actively involved in identifying needs and solutions to these needs
This process has really caught the young peoples enthusiasm and imagination, with many of our members having voluntarily worked with the forum for over two years. In fact the majority of young people who have now exceeded the 16 years age range still wish to be involved and we have developed a peer mentoring training package for these young so that they can share their gained knowledge and skills with younger new members.
Young people have also identified key priorities around six themes,
o Leisure and Environment, (TAKE THE BLING OR MING TEST see environment page)
o Health,
o Education and Training,
o Crime and Community Safety,
o Communication
o Strategic.
Once per year the young people from the youth forum set their priorities for each of the thematic groups. Theses priorities are based upon their experiences but are also backed up via wider youth consultation via school councils and youth surveys. These are further strengthened by information supplied to the young people via wider surveys from such as LSP data, governmental, health care and educational.
As the young people set the aims and objectives of the youth forum and identified interventions which meet there constituted outcomes; which are to
Support the voice of young people being heard
Facilitate the commissioning of initiatives that promote and support young people
Engage in consultation with young people
Promotion of young people and their vision for the future
Support intergenerational understanding
Encourage the development of all young people as responsible citizens
During the last year young people have
Produced a Toolkit for young peoples participation in Urban Policies
Ran media campaigns (including research, design, distribution and commissioning)
Mobile phone safety campaign (Bus & Radio adverts)
Anti-binge drinking (Bus, Radio & TV adverts and the establishment of peer alcohol mentors (PAM’S) in each secondary school)
Anti-bullying (bus and working towards anti-bullying accreditation –first youth group in UK once completed)
Anti-social behaviour (CSP bus Campaign)
Environmental mug making messages
Surveyed over 2000 young people around planning developments and playing outside.
Purchased litter-picking equipment for community usage while also running numerous litter picking, bulb planting and basket making events throughout theDistrict.
Strategically the young people have attended and contributed to the following groups LSP-Strategic Funding Group-Scrutiny Committee-Youth Opportunity Fund-Youth Cards-Play Strategy-Leisure Connect Services-Housing Group-Climate Change Debate.
Established a website www.deyf.org.uk
Developed a small business scheme, based around a social issues calendar for young people · Develop screensaver campaigns (these will tackle criminal damage, secondary fires, drinking and personal safety.
Young people have undertaken training around–community cohesion-diversity-public speaking/ presentations-drug and alcohol-fire safety-anti-smoking –inspection (Ofsed)-conflict resolution –health and safety- peer mentoring-business development and finance.
To find out more, explore this site, for comming events see below.
Flip Guide (please feel free to copy and distribute )
COMING EVENTS / News
