Wirkungsnachweis aus der Literatur

Langfristig (> 5 Jahre)
Mikro (Individuum)
Politisch

increased sense of political engagement for participants

politische Kompetenzen und Partizipation

Linked to this, participants also felt an increased sense of political engagement, that they have a voice in local decision making and that they are able to challenge what they see as injustices in their local community. We know from previous studies both in the UK (e.g. Musick and Wilson 2007) and USA (e.g. McFarland and Thomas 2006) that young people’s involvement in VSOs, where they have opportunities to meaningfully participate in decision making and to volunteer, encourages them to continue to be involved in community activities, public speaking and debate (Rochester 2013). Participants within this research supported this notion with most of them continuing into adulthood to advocate strongly for the right and beliefs of themselves and others. For example, one participant went on to advocate for minority groups in a national forum, whilst others commented: “Now I go to the town council and when they say anything else to add, I’m like right, yes, I’ve got something to say, this is what our community needs.”; Harry; “I stood for the youth county council, then as a student rep at university… I am now really interested in using social media to campaign.”; Danielle; “I’m working with some others at the moment to get funding for a new football ground in this area, we need it and the council won’t help.”; Frankie

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