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Champions for Change
We’ve got a toolkit to help you listen, hear and understand better.
- How to join Champions for Change
Devon’s children and young people’s participation group is called ‘Champions for Change’. We are a group of young people with special educational needs and disabilities who believe that voices should be heard, not ignored: Listen, hear and understand.
We worked on a film project in 2018 which we hope will help children and young people with special needs understand their rights to have a voice and to be heard. We meet every half term at Tiverton Youth Centre, where we learn about what participation means and where we can have an impact. We hope to reach more young people with our film and enable them to become ‘Champions for Change’ too!I am a young person and I want to get involved!
You have lots of choices:
- Come to our group – contact us to find out more.
- Tell us what is important to you as a young person with special educational needs or a disability.
- Talk to your school, college or youth service. Show them our video and ask them how they #ListenHearUnderstand – then send us their details and tell us what they say. You could receive a free pen or badge to prove you are a Champion for Change!
Contact
Email: participation@devon.gov.uk
Text/Phone: 07890 595777
Facebook @DevonChampionsforChange
YouTube: Devon Champions for Change
- Listen
Where am I in your strategic plans?
Where am I in your organisation’s plans?
Where am I in my own plan?
- Hear
How do you know whose voice you are hearing?
Can you listen to me in lots of different ways?
When did you ask me?
Have things changed?
How do you know I am involved?
- Understand
How will you use what I say to change what you do?
What difference will it make to me?
Who will check that it has?
Who will tell me and how?
How will you know how well you’re doing for me?
What next?
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