The Adolescent Kit includes guidance, tools, activities and supplies for working with adolescents. You can browse, find and download all guides, tools and activities in the Adolescent Kit on this website using the menus at the top of this page to help you to navigate to the materials of interest to you.
1. Guidance The Adolescent Kit includes guides and tools for Programme Coordinators who design, oversee and support education, child protection, youth clubs or other programmes for adolescents, Facilitators who lead activities with groups of adolescents, and Adolescents themselves.
We encourage you to review all of the guides and tools before starting your work with the Adolescent Kit. While some of these sections are specifically targeted at Programme Coordinators and Facilitators, respectively, all users are encouraged to read all of the guidance to get a full picture of how the Adolescent Kit works.
Quick Guide: A helpful overview of the Adolescent Kit that provides a snapshot of all of the guidance, tools and activities available to users. Use this to get a sense of what the Adolescent Kit has to offer – and how it can support your work!
Foundational Guidance: Guides and tools that are for everyone who plans to use the Adolescent Kit, including programme coordinators, facilitators, and adolescents themselves. Among these are a framework of the ten competency domains that guide activities, and a guide to key approaches to working with adolescents and technical guidance.
Programme Coordinators’ Guidance: Guidance and tools for programme coordinators to design and manage interventions for adolescents using the Adolescent Kit. These include guides for managing, storing and replacing supplies for interventions with the Adolescent Kit. This includes advice on creating and finding your own supplies if you don’t have access to a Supply Kit.
Facilitators’ Guidance: Guidance, tools and activities for facilitators to work directly with adolescents through the Adolescent Circles approach.
2. Activity Box The Activity Box includes useful tools and resources to help facilitators as they work with adolescents. These range from in-depth guidance and instructions for running activities to quick and easy ideas to motivate participants.
Activity Guides: Step-by-step guides to activities that can be adapted to adolescents’ interests, needs and developmental level
Energizer Cards: Cards with instructions for short, fun games or restful activities to run with adolescents • Inspiration Cards: Inspiring ideas for quick activities to keep adolescents motivated and interested
Facilitator Tools: Useful tools for planning and facilitating sessions with adolescents; includes a topic bank with a list of additional ideas that can be integrated into activities and emotion cards to help adolescents identify and communicate their emotions
3. Supply Kit A package of materials, equipment and supplies that can be used to support activities with the Adolescent Kit. The Supply Kit is especially designed to make programmes for adolescents feasible in low-resource contexts. However, most of the activities in the Adolescent Kit don’t require any supplies, and there are lots of ways to find or make materials locally. The Supply guidance includes tools to help you to decide whether to order UNICEF, as well as checklists and instructions to procure and make your own supply kit locally.
Go to the Supplies page to learn more.
4. Digital Resources This website is a key part of the Adolescent Kit, and offers all guidance, tools and activities on an open-source basis. The Supply Kit includes a USB Key with electronic versions of all of the guidance, tools and activities in the Adolescent Kit, as well as templates and videos, to make them accessible to users in low-connectivity settings.
