Youth Achievement Awards
History
The ASDAN Youth Achievement Awards are a peer education approach to recognising and accrediting young people's achievements. They are designed to encourage young people to take a more active role in the youth work activities that interest them. The Awards were launched by UK Youth and ASDAN (the awarding body) in 1997, with Lifetrain holding the operating license for Surrey since that time.
How It Works
Young people come together and form an Award Group. Members of the Award Group are (with support from their Award Group Worker) responsible for supporting each other to set and plan appropriate challenges and identify the learning targets within them. Once a young person has completed a challenge they review what they did, how they felt and what they go out of it with their Award Group. Young people record their experiences in their challenge booklets and collect evidence of their challenges to organise in a portfolio.
The Awards are available to young people in year 9+ at four, progressive levels:
- BRONZE: young people take part in activities that have been organised by other people.
- SILVER: young people get involved in helping to plan and organise activities where their contribution and responsibilities within the challenge is evident.
- GOLD: young people take complete responsibility for planning and organising activities. They will also need to give a presentation about their Award.
- PLATINUM: a leadership or peer educator's Award. Complete responsibility for organising and leading. Challenges are pre-set and include a personal development plan, training, a placement working with young people, an evaluation and a presentation.
Why bother?
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Costs & Commitments
Registration as a Participating Unit, renewed every April. Click here for a registration form.
Min 1 Worker to attend Introductory Training: £70 through Lifetrain or £156 through UK Youth
Please contact Laura for dates if you are interested , or to book on a UK Youth course please click here.
Introduction to Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards Training
Each young person needs a booklet at the appropriate level. These come in a range of formats, including large type, various langauages, brail and online. Download a form here. (You must be registered to purchase YAA materials)
For full details of the support Lifetrain offers YAA Participating Units please download the OA-PU Agreement.
See the UK Youth website for more information about the Youth Achievement Awards on a national level, including latest news, events and to download further materials.
Units already registered with the Lifetrain Trust
Youth Achievement Awards Moderation - all awards must contain
- YAA Booklet
- Internal checklist
- Evidence of challenges at the appropriate level
If you have all the above and wish to book an internal moderation please complete a YAA Internal Moderation Request Form. Please see Moderation deadlines.
Youth Challenges Moderation - all awards must contain
- Youth Challenge Booklet
- Internal checklist
- Evidence of challenges at the appropriate level
If you have all the above and wish to book an internal moderation please complete a Youth Challenge Internal Moderation Request Form this can be done at anytime.
As a registered unit you will have an on-line workspace on the YAA website.
For further information or support regarding the Youth Achievement Awards please contact Laura Quinn at laura@lifetrain.org.uk or Hannah Hackett at hannah@lifetrain.org.uk