Impact and Improvement Training Programme
We have a range of online and face-to-face training sessions for anyone looking to embed programme quality and achieve meaningful impact in provision for young people.
By building the skills of practitioners, we can ensure they will be even better at achieving positive change with and for young people.
Our Impact and Improvement Training Programme is specifically designed for youth provision in the UK. The training sessions will build your knowledge and skills to:
- Design programmes
- Undertake quality monitoring
- Design appropriate evaluations
- Collect relevant and quality data
- Identify and embed organisational learning.
All examples, techniques, and content is tailored to youth provision with issues of equity, diversity and inclusion, safeguarding, and ethical practice embedded throughout. All have a strong focus on ensuring that the views and experiences of young people are central to designing, delivering, and improving your provision.
Our tried and tested training sessions have been developed over many years of engagement with practitioners working with young people in a wide variety of settings and contexts. They are relevant to anyone engaged in informal and non-formal provision. They can be helpful to anyone new to impact and quality improvement; or those looking to refresh their skills.
We deliver training sessions through face-to-face workshops and web-based online training. Our experienced and knowledgeable trainers are rooted in the youth sector and able to actively facilitate you to apply learning into your practice and relationships. Sessions are interactive using a wide variety of methods and learning techniques.
For details of specific sessions, see below. If you are interested in commissioning a training session for your organisation or to register interest in an open access session, then just contact us.
All training has been refreshed in Spring 2022, with support from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Our sessions
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Our training
Date: 10am-1pm, Tuesday 4 April 2023
This training will support you to understand what Youth Participatory Research (YPR) is and whether it is appropriate for your organisation.
By the end of the session participants should:
- Understand the characteristics of youth participatory research
- Understand the limitations and challenges of YPR
- Gain an overview of how to conduct YPR.
You can find more resources to help you with this area of work in area five of our resource hub.
Participants:
12-14
Time:
3 hours
Prior knowledge or training required:
You will need an understanding of the basics of monitoring & evaluation to come on this training session.
Pre-training prep work:
Come prepared to discuss a project you work on or have worked on.
Date: 9.30am-4.30pm, Tuesday 18 April 2023
This day workshop will equip you with a firm understanding of when to use a range of different creative data collection tools and how to analyse the data they produce.
By the end of the session you will be able to:
- Understand why and when you might use creative data collection tools
- Develop awareness of the breadth of creative data collection tools
- Understand the benefits and limitations of creative data collection tools
- Understand the benefits and limitations in analysis of creative data sets.
You can find more resources to help you with this area of work in area six of our resource hub.
Participants:
12-14
Time:
7 hrs
Prior knowledge or training required:
Have prior experience of some data collection.
Pre-training prep work:
Come prepared to discuss a project you work on or have worked on.
Date: 10am-12:30pm, Thursday 27 April 2023
Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a quality management philosophy that encourages all team members to continuously ask what can be done better. This short session will introduce what CQI is and how you can introduce it in your organisation.
By the end of the session you will be able to:
- Understand what CQI involves and how it can both inform and be informed by your evaluation activities
- Be familiar with different definitions and standards of ‘quality’ in the youth sector in England
- Feel confident planning or developing a process for CQI for your organisation/programme.
You can find more resources to help you with this area of work in area seven of our resource hub.
Participants:
12-14
Time:
2 hours 30 minutes
Prior knowledge or training required:
This is an introductory course, but some understanding of monitoring and evaluation will be useful to you.
Pre-training prep work:
Come prepared to discuss a project you work on or have worked on.
Date: 9am-12.30pm, Tuesday 9 May 2023
Understanding impact across a range of services can be a challenge. Equally, understanding the impact all youth provision has in an area seems daunting as they may each have different theories of change and evaluation plans. This short session will help you to think through ways to demonstrate collective impact through shared measurement.
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Understand what shared measurement can look like
- Understand where your organisation could contribute to shared measurement in the youth sector currently and moving forward.
You can find more resources to help you with this area of work in area seven of our resource hub.
Participants:
12-14
Time:
3 hrs 15 minutes
Prior knowledge or training required:
This is an advanced training – MEL and Impact Measurement knowledge is essential.
Pre-training prep work:
Knowledge of the impact work of your organisation.