Tools

The following courses are all designed to help increase the skills, ability and knowledge base of all practitioners working with young people in a variety of settings. They will help build your confidence and aptitude for addressing some of the issues that young people face and enable you to work effectively with young people.

Dates to be confirmed
for 2007-2008.

The Basic Expedition Leader Award is a nationally recognized award that trains and qualifies teachers, youth workers and other members of the community to:
• Lead groups in lowland areas
• Have responsibility for the care of others when outdoors including day journeys
• Organise base and standing camps

The Basic Expedition Leader Award is the minimum qualification required by many local authorities and operating authorities of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme to train and lead groups in the expedition section of the Bronze and Silver Awards. The BELA also counts towards the service section of all three Awards in the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. The award does not qualify people to lead groups in remote or mountainous areas. If candidates are 17 years of age when they start the course, they cannot gain certification until they are 18.

Course Content
The BELA has ten units, which a candidate must complete.
These are:
1. Leadership and party management
2. Instructional and organisational method
3. Planning and preparation
4. Conservation and access
5. Navigation
6. Equipment
7. Living out of doors
8. First Aid and emergencies
9. Fitness and weather
10. 30 hours voluntary leadership experience

How to book on to a course?
You can book on to a course by either ringing Hindleap on 01342 822625, giving your name, youth club and the course you wish to attend, or you can email your details to graham@hindleap.com

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In this course we will
• Examine ‘what is bullying?’
• Identify our own experiences of being bullied and/or being
a bully
• Ask what’s in it for the bully? – why do we do it?
• Understand the impact of bullying on young people’s mental
health and well being
• Discuss real life situations of bullying and find solutions to
address them
• Understand why a ‘just ignore them’ approach doesn’t work
You will also take away from the course
• A bag of ideas to try out in your youth project
• Information on where to go for more help

This course will show you how to address bullying by organizing activities so that young people can confidently hold each other to account and demonstrate that they won’t accept being bullied.

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Aims & Objectives: This workshop is open to anybody who currently works with or intends to work with boys & young men from black and minority ethnic communities. The session will explore some of the influential factors in the lives of the young men.

Topics covered during the workshop will include:
• Cultural understanding and background
• Masculinity and society
• Racism
• Issues facing workers when working with young men from ethnic minorities.

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