The Adolescent Kit guidance and tools are designed to be easy for anyone working with adolescents - and even adolescents themselves - to use with minimal additional formal orientation or training. Programme coordinators, facilitators, trainers, and anyone else interested in the Adolescent Kit can use this website to explore and find all of the Kit the resources they need, and to learn approaches and strategies to use them with and for adolescents.
In some cases, programme coordinators preparing to use the Adolescent Kit may find it helpful to organize a preparatory workshop to support the managers, trainers, facilitators, and other volunteers or staff on their teams to explore, choose, adapt and use the Kit’s guides, tools, activities and supplies in a new or ongoing programme. The training package for the Adolescent Kit was developed for programme teams to use in a planning and training workshop:
This training package includes this Training Guide for a workshop that includes five modules, in each of which programme teams collaborate, plan and prepare for different aspects of using the Adolescent Kit. The training package also includes one slide deck for each of the five modules. Programme coordinators can adapt and use these slide decks to plan and prepare for a training workshop that includes the following five topics:
Module 2: Reaching and engaging adolescents
Module 3: Building adolescent circles
Module 5: Implementation and roll-out planning
Programme coordinators, facilitators, trainers and anyone else using the Adolescent Kit can use this website to build and strengthen their own knowledge and capacity to work with and for adolescents in humanitarian contexts as they plan and prepare to choose, adapt and use materials from the Kit in a new or ongoing programme. You can orient yourself to the Adolescent Kit resources, approaches and activities by exploring the pages of this website and the videos and downloadable materials in any order you wish, using the pathways from the home page and/or the menu bar at the top of this page to find information and materials that interest you. Or, follow the steps suggested below for a self-guided training and orientation to the Adolescent Kit based on your role in your programme
Self-guided training for Programme Coordinators |
Self-guided training for Facilitators |
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Programme coordinators who design, manage, coordinate, monitor or otherwise support programmes or interventions using the Adolescent Kit can read the guidance and watch the videos on these webpages to orient themselves to the Adolescent Kit materials, then choose, adapt and use them with and for their programme teams, communities and adolescents.
Get an overview of all of the guidance, tools, activities and supplies in the Adolescent Kit contents to prepare to choose, adapt and use the materials that will be helpful for your programme team and for the adolescents in your context. Learn more about the situations, needs, challenges and opportunities of adolescents living and growing in humanitarian contexts globally to better understand the young people in your context. Learn more about how the Adolescent Kit can be used for programmes for adolescents’ psychosocial wellbeing, life skills development, participation and engagement, and involvement in peacebuilding, and how the kit is designed to promote gender equity and inclusion for adolescents with and without disabilities. The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation supports adolescents in developing and using ten key competencies for emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships and developing to their full potential. Learn more about the ten key competencies that are the outcome framework of the Adolescent Kit, and explore guides and tools to measure adolescents’ development and use of competencies as they participate in your programme. The Ten Key Approaches are the principles and methodology of the Adolescent Kit. Explore the Ten Key Approaches to discuss how everyone on your team will engage positively with adolescents in ways that uphold their rights and use effective practices to support them as they develop and use the Ten Key Competencies. The Activity Box is the “heart” of the Adolescent Kit, with 100 different activities for adolescents with different interests and goals. Search and browse 100 different activities for adolescents as you prepare to work with facilitators to choose, adapt and plan the activities that are most engaging, relevant and helpful for adolescents in your contexts. Once you have had a chance to learn more about the Adolescent Kit, decide how you will use it in a new or ongoing intervention, beginning by finding and choosing a programme entry point. Learn more about the situations, needs and priorities of adolescents in your context. Review the information already available to you, explore your programming context and collaborate with adolescents to learn more as you plan programmes with and for them. Find, adapt and use strategies to reach and engage especially the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach adolescents in your programme context. Use monitoring tools to keep track of different adolescents’ participation and monitor your progress in reaching diverse groups of adolescents. Choose places and times for adolescents’ activities that are accessible, safe and conducive for them to learn and have fun. Identify spaces in your host community that you can borrow or share to bring programme activities closer to adolescents. Involve adolescents in making borrowed or dedicated spaces feel more welcoming and comfortable. Choose and collaborate with an implementing partner that shares your principles and goals for adolescents. Identify, recruit, train and support the facilitators who will lead activities with adolescents. Using activities and tools from the Activity Box and the Four Activity Phases, plan curricula for adolescents that address their socioemotional and learning needs, and help them to take action in their communities. Or, support facilitators in choosing activities with and for adolescents using the Four Activity Phase approach. Collaborate with adolescents and adults in your host community to design, adapt and implement your programme. Engage local adults as resources to support adolescents as they learn and take action together. Prepare your team and your facilitators to connect adolescents with support and services related to their mental and physical health, safety, protection, legal and human rights, and help them to find other information and educational programmes based on their interests, hopes and goals. Learn more about the Adolescent Kit Supply Kit available to UNICEF country teams and partners. Procure and build your own Kit if basic supplies are available locally in your programme context. Manage supplies and materials with adults and adolescents in your host community. Find all Adolescent Kit guides, tools and activities in English, Arabic, French or Spanish, and selected materials in other languages. Prepare to translate Adolescent Kit guides, tools and activities into a new language and find helpful resources suggestions to use in that process. Collaborate with adolescents and adults in your host community to plan for programme transitions as the humanitarian context changes. Adapt approaches and activities, integrate interventions into local institutions, or close temporary programmes based on adolescents’ and communities’ evolving needs. |
Facilitators who work directly with small groups of adolescents can follow these steps to Note: The steps outlined below prepare trained facilitators to use and adapt materials and resources from the Adolescent Kit. These steps, and all of the materials in the Adolescent Kit, are designed for use by facilitators who have already received basic training in leading activities for adolescents’ social and emotional wellbeing, learning and/or recreation using child- or youth-centred learning methods. The Kit does not offer a basic or introductory training package for facilitators who are entirely new to this role. Find more resources to train new facilitators at Additional Resources page.
Get an overview of all of the guidance, tools, activities and supplies in the Adolescent Kit contents to prepare to choose, adapt and use the materials that will be helpful for your programme team and for the adolescents in your context. Learn more about the situations, needs, challenges and opportunities of adolescents living and growing in humanitarian contexts globally to better understand the young people in your context. The Adolescent Kit for Expression and Innovation supports adolescents in developing and using ten key competencies for emotional wellbeing, healthy relationships and developing to their full potential. Learn more about the ten key competencies that are the outcome framework of the Adolescent Kit, and explore guides and tools to measure adolescents’ development and use of competencies as they participate in your programme. The Ten Key Approaches are the principles and methodology of the Adolescent Kit. Explore the Ten Key Approaches to discuss how everyone on your team will engage positively with adolescents in ways that uphold their rights and use effective practices to support them as they develop and use the Ten Key Competencies. The Activity Box is the “heart” of the Adolescent Kit, with 100 different activities for adolescents with different interests and goals. Search and browse 100 different activities for adolescents as you prepare to work with facilitators to choose, adapt and plan the activities that are most engaging, relevant and helpful for adolescents in your contexts. Get started with adolescents by bringing them together in small, diverse “circles.” Lead activities with adolescent circles that help them work together in safe, supportive, constructive ways. Using activities and tools from the Activity Box and the Four Activity Phases, plan curricula for adolescents that address their socioemotional and learning needs, and help them to take action in their communities. Or, support facilitators in choosing activities with and for adolescents using the Four Activity Phase approach. “Activity sessions” are the time you spend with your adolescent circle. Plan sessions with eight steps that give adolescents a sense of stability and security as they connect and collaborate with each other, and take on new challenges together. Prepare your team and your facilitators to connect adolescents with support and services related to their mental and physical health, safety, protection, legal and human rights, and help them to find other information and educational programmes based on their interests, hopes and goals. Learn more about the Adolescent Kit Supply Kit available to UNICEF country teams and partners. Procure and build your own Kit if basic supplies are available locally in your programme context. Manage supplies and materials with adults and adolescents in your host community. Self-guided training for Trainers of FacilitatorsTrainers who are responsible for training facilitators to lead activities with and for adolescents should prepare themselves by following the self-guided training outlined for facilitators, above. Depending on their other responsibilities to their programme teams, trainers may also find it useful to follow some or all of the self-guided training steps outlined for programme coordinators, including to:
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