South East & Central CLD Workforce Development Consortium

Briefing Paper  to Collaborative members re CLD workforce development

Minutes June 17

Community Activist Training Resource Pack

About this Pack

This pack has been developed in a fashion that will allow facilitators with good group work and facilitation skills and a strong Community Learning and Development background to be up and running with a little preparation.

The materials will suit those who are new to volunteering and also those who want to further develop their knowledge, skills and understanding of community activism and community learning and development. The course is participative and includes opportunities for individual, small and full group involvement.

Notionally levelled at SCQF Level 6 - participants can use their learning as a stepping stone to further training or accredited programmes as well as improving and developing their involvement and delivery as local activists. As the pack has been developed with the levelling and accreditation process in mind it is important to stick to the learning outcomes, although you may decide to include other favourite activities which will achieve the same outcome.

There is a definite flow to each unit should the facilitator decide to run the course from beginning to end with a new or existing group, however each unit and session has standalone aims and outcomes, therefore can be used individually to meet an existing or arising need.

The layout of the materials has been designed in a manner which allows easy recognition of the three main elements – TUTORS NOTES/RESOURCES – HAND-OUTS – WORKSHEETS .

Contents

Unit 1: Exploring and Understanding Community Learning and Development

Session 1: What is community learning and development

Session 2: Being a Community Activist

Session 3: Participation and Inclusion

Session 4: Making a difference

Unit 2: Your community ,who are they and how do you reach them

Session 5: Who are your community?

Session 6: Equal and Equality

Session 7: Engagement getting your community on-board

Unit 3: Taking action in your community

Session 8: Who holds the power?

Session 9: Influencing decision makers

Session 10: Making things happen

Unit4: Putting it into practice

Session 11: Did we make a difference?

Session 12: What needs to change and how will we do it?

Recall meeting: Sharing experiences.

A series of cartoons and statements developed from discussions at the CLD practitiones confrence "Inspiring Practice"

Evaluation Report

Seminar led by Ann Kivlin HMI (Education Scotland)  looking at the new guidance and toolkit in How Good is the Learning and Development  in Our Community

Presentation from Education Scotland November 2017

Presentation from Education Scotland November 2017

Extract from How Good is Third Sector QI's partnership and Family Learning