Child-to-Child Approaches to Children’s Participation in Health and Development: a One Day Introduction for Programmers and Facilitators

Since 1979, the Child-to-Child Trust has developed approaches, tools and materials to encourage children to promote the health and well-being of themselves, their families and communities in over 70 countries. The Trust has pioneered a range of practical and effective ‘child-to-child’ (CtC) approaches to working with children and young people in a participatory way. These approaches are rights-based and grounded in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and are thus grounded in the convention’s guiding principles of inclusion, non discrimination and best interest of the child. Participation in Child-to-Child activities has been shown to enhance the personal, physical, social, emotional, moral and intellectual development of children.

Aim: To introduce Child-to-Child approaches to course participants. 

Course Objectives: By the end of the day, as a group we will have been introduced to:

• The nature, role and potential of the Child-to-Child movement as expressed in the principles and characteristics of the approach; 
• The role of children as partners in providing better health and enhancing health knowledge and practice for other children, their families and communities;
• The methodologies used in programmes using the Child-to-Child approach and especially the step by step approach designed to link learning directly to health action in the home and community;
• Techniques to monitor and evaluate children’s participation;
• The material resources produced by the Child-to-Child Trust UK;
• The range of training and consultancy support an organisation might require to successfully organise, launch and run a locally based course to initiate or improve Child-to-Child approaches.

Date: 12 December 2011.
Time: 9AM - 4PM.
Location: Institute of Education, London, UK 
Course Fee: £125

To confirm your place, please email ccenquiries@ioe.ac.uk 

For further information, please contact Tricia Young on 00 44 20 7612 6648 (t.young@ioe.ac.uk) or Christiana Brown on 00 44 20 7331 5123 (Christiana.brown@ioe.ac.uk)