Project Evaluation The following is a brief evaluation summary of the What didn’t? project for future reference and consideration. • Took way too long to prepare visual posters for activities – next time would use blank poster paper. What worked? • PowerPoint was not used – not that it didn’t • Engaging youth and community stakeholders work, rather the workshop activities did not (project champions [partners]) to promote and need it . engage to young people and to support and host • After school workshops may need to be more the workshops activities. active or use a different workshop format (more • Specifically covering each of the eight themes creative, physical activity, have fun incentive (and referring to associated prompts) separately at end) as young people had been in school as was able to attain relevant information to all day and were not necessarily wanting to be address each in the key findings. questioned and/or to provide input/ideas. • Providing free food as a draw card and • Club or group based activities, while effective, incentive. may benefit in being shortened to ensure • Running workshops during school periods and those attending are also provided time for their within regularly scheduled group activities at interest-based activities. their premises as ensured good participation • Attempted to gain a number of youth numbers and reasonable level of commitment champions from across the community to assist from young people. with promotion and support of the project. • Youth ‘champions’ who provided feedback on Unfortunately this was difficult due to timing the Youth Survey to ensure it was appropriate (Summer school holiday period) and on the and appealing to all youth ages. ground capacity to promote and engage young people. • Workshop model was reasonably flexible to suit varying time frames and times of day. • Facilitators moving around and sitting in on the Suggestions for Improvement discussions to listen to the context of subjects discussed and to specific open questions around • More time and resourcing would have supported the development of a diverse range of the proposed themes. engagement activities and also not be restricted the delivery time of one week; potentially engaging and interesting more young people. • Providing a creative weekend activity as something for the young people to do and that had outcomes that contributed to the key findings. • Planning the project and in particular identifying youth champions was difficult based on the time frame of the Summer Holiday break and the start of the school year. May need to rethink time frame if to engage youth champions.
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