Presented by YP2LE, the Youth Systems Strengthening Community of Practice's August monthly meeting.
About the Event
We are excited to introduce two new guest speakers - Robyn Braverman from Proponte Mas and Daniel Okpaise from OneAfricanChild to share their experience promoting systems change efforts in Honduras and Nigeria. The USAID/Honduras funded program, Proponte Mas or Propose More, was a four year program to create a family systems model that creates the family as a protection system and facilitates a family counseling approach for youth at the risk of engaging in illicit activities. The program goal was to apply a tool to identify levels of risk in youth and apply a family systems counseling model which was intended to reduce risky behaviors. The tool was applied at the end of the intervention to be able to determine whether kids had reduced their risks or not. This is an evidence based intervention.
The OneAfricanChild-Self-organized Learning Environment (SOLE project), was an 8-week collaboration with SOLE Colombia to create a roadmap for empowering young people to develop collaborative systems for sustainable peacebuilding and quality education. A big-question driven roundtable approach was utilized in driving conversations amongst diverse members of NIgerian and Kenyan communities. The project goal was to develop a system/roadmap to guide young people in creating sustainable efforts targeted at answering the “big questions” in their communities. Design thinking was a tool deployed during these conversations to help arrive at next steps.
About the Community of Practice
YP2LE spent the first six months of 2020 listening and co-designing with members of the YouthPower Learning Network, and we are pleased to announce the refreshed YP2LE Learning Network with several new features and benefits. The Youth Systems Strengthening CoP aims to provide an open learning and sharing space for participants to understand more about the purposes, processes, and results associated with reforming systems (e.g., education, health, workforce development, criminal justice, transportation) that impact the positive trajectory of young people. Join the Youth Systems Strengthening CoP Discussion Group to connect with others in the community! You must be a registered member of YouthPower.org in order to participate in the discussion. Register today!