YAA PROGRAMMES

Programmes

Youth Challenge
A 30-hour programme comprising of five 6-hour activities with a central element of peer assessment supported by the Award Group Worker. Encouraging young people to take part in activities is the focus at this first level.

Youth Challenge Extra
This programme can be used as a progression from the Youth Challenge or as direct entry for a young person capable of demonstrating the ability to help organise.

Youth Activities - Peer Tutoring Awards
This 30-hour programme has been developed for young people attending block or short course activity programmes.

Bronze
At Bronze Level young people take part in activities that have been organised by other people.

Silver
At Silver Level young people are involved in helping to plan and organise activities where their contribution and responsibilities within the challenges are clearly identified.

Gold
At Gold Level young people take complete responsibility for planning, organising and leading activities. Young people will also need to give a presentation on their Award.

Platinum
Platinum Level is a leadership Award. Young people take complete responsibility for planning, organising and leading activities. It is different from the other Awards because the challenges are set and include a personal development plan, undertaking training, a placement working with young people, an evaluation and a presentation.

Accrediting the Wider Key Skills through the UK Youth Achievement Awards

Registration with Youth Cymru to run the Youth Challenges and Youth Achievement Awards will also enable you to access ASDAN's Wider Key Skills programmes as a registered centre.

The three Wider Key Skills are 'Improving your Own Learning and Performance', 'Working with Others' and 'Problem Solving' - all of which fit neatly into the youth work context and can be generated from involvement in a Youth Achievement Award as they follow the same planning, target setting and reviewing methodology. The Wider Key Skills are qualifications that are approved for use in schools (via Section 96) and are fundable by LSC for use with young people aged 16 plus (via Section 97). The Wider Key Skills are all assessed through portfolio-based evidence (and can be cross referenced to a Youth Achievement Award). Other advantages are that the Wider Key Skills also appear in school and college league tables (where relevant) and at Levels 1 and 2 each one contributes 3/4 of a GCSE's worth of league table points. At Level 3 all three Wider Key Skills broadly equate to an AS Level with 60 UCAS Tariff points on offer (the same as a Grade A at AS level).

In 2003 UK Youth and ASDAN were commissioned by the National LSC to explore how the two programmes link together. Well over 40% of the young people involved achieved at least one Wider Key Skill by the end of the twelve-month project.

To register with ASDAN directly normally costs £180 per academic year. Wider Key Skills training and support can be bought in directly from Youth Cymru.

For further information on the Awards please contact Robert here.

For more information about ASDAN's Wider Key Skills, please go to http://www.asdan.org.uk/key_skills