Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

Langfristig (> 5 Jahre)
Meso (Organisation/Gruppe)
Sozial

increased civic engagement of participants

gesellschaftliche Partizipation

They also highlighted how through this work, they felt more confident to articulate their views, discuss things with those in authority and stand up for their rights: “I was being bullied at school and I remember one day suddenly feeling empowered enough to say ‘enough, this isn’t right’. I started campaigning against bullying locally and it just grew and grew.”; Becky; “I wanted to make a difference, I got involved, well because some of my mates were, but then I wanted to make a difference.”; Harry; The sense that young participants were able to actively shape their communities was echoed by Chris, who commented that: “I only have to look out of my window and I can see the skate park that we got the funding for and we helped build – we did that.”; Chris [...] This validation of their achievements further boosted confidence and in doing so helped to encourage continued civic engagement into adulthood.

Beschreibung der Aktivität

several youth participation focused project of voluntary sector organizations
several youth participation focused project of voluntary sector organizations The voluntary organisation who had engaged these young people is a small, locally-operating VSO who have an established history in delivering youth participation focused services.
Großbritannien
2005/2006
21 to 26 years (when interviewed), they were engaged 10 years previously
teilnehmende Kinder und Jugendliche
Freiwillig engagierte Jugendliche

Evaluierung der Aktivität

Qualitative Interviewbefragungen (persönlich)
Interviews were semi-structured, each following a similar line of questioning whilst allowing for individual perspectives and events to be discussed (Mason 1996, Kvale 2007). Each interview lasted approximately one hour, was recorded, transcribed and analysed in order to explore the content of the interview (Oliver, Serovich, and Mason 2005). [...] Sampling of the interviewees was purposive - members of staff from the VSO acted as gatekeepers and contacted a range of former youth participants who had been involved in one of these youth participation focused projects and sought consent for their contact details and names to be passed over to the researchers. [...] Pseudonyms have been used where participants have been quoted, as outlined at the end of this section.
ten former participants (5 female and 5 male)
2015/2016