We're recruiting for the Relationships Cohort

With support from City Bridge Trust, the Centre will spend two years working with two groups of ten organisations in London that work with young people through a relational approach (that is, intentionally attending to relationships, and creating opportunities to support young people to form and sustain quality relationships). This programme will deepen understanding of evaluating the quality of relationships between staff and young people. We are looking for practitioners in both targeted and open provision to take part in the programme. This work will build on the learning from the previous report: Can you bottle a good relationship?

Why participate?
This is an exciting opportunity to take part in a shared evaluation journey to understand quality relationships and how they can be improved over time. It is widely accepted that high quality relationships between young people and trusted adults are invaluable for young people’s development. This programme is an opportunity for practitioners to shape how relationships can be better evaluated, understood, and attended to. Through taking part, all participants will also have access to free training and support from the Centre for Youth Impact’s team. 

Delivery timeline

October – November 2019

​Cohort recruitment

December 2019

Participants are announced, participants will be placed in one of two groups:

• Those working with young people in one-to-one contexts
• Those working with young people in one-to-many contexts, including open access youth work

January – February 2020

A theory of change and evaluation tool will be co-created by participants.

• One theory of change workshop per group
• One evaluation planning workshop per group where a tool will be designed for testing

March – April 2020

Each organisations will receive two one-to-one sessions to develop their organisation’s plan for implementing their group’s co-created tool into practice

May 2020

Data collection where the learning objective is to understand how the tool is used in practice, what works well and what can be improved.

• One data analysis workshop per group where we will analyse data collected using the tools and learn from the results together. 

June – September 2020

The tool will be adapted based on feedback and an interim report on the process learning thus far will be published. 

October – December 2020

A second round of data collection will take place with implementation support from the Centre as required. Data is to be shared with the Centre 

January – March 2021

Analysis and write up of final report, event to share learning

Time commitment from partners

• Workshops: three half day workshops between January – May 2020
• One-to-One support sessions: two 2-hour sessions between March – April 2020
• Data collection: we are committed to making these processes as light touch as is possible to both go with the grain of delivery and gather meaningful, actionable insight.
• Feedback and insight: Provide feedback to Centre throughout the process and we will ask for your insight which will be fed into the learning reports

How to join
​Please complete this application form via Survey Monkey: Relationships Cohort Application. We may follow up your application with a phone call to confirm your interest and organisational capacity to take part. We will use your responses provided in the application form to structure the two groups.

​If you have any questions please contact mary.mckaskill@youthimpact.uk.