29 Apr
2014
29 Apr
'14
6:37 p.m.
Maybe have kids create their own goals and yardsticks?
dude/[ette].... BNF forgotten. Lied to re: Del msgs. MHA*
On Apr 29, 2014 5:35 PM, "Lauren Warbeck" <lauren.warbeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Folks!
>
> When not immersed in planning an Ohio-themed Bike! Bike! fundraiser dance
> party (!!!), I'm actually doing other for real work. Including the
> exploration of formats, documentation, and reporting for our youth
> volunteering and Earn-a-Bike programs.
>
> Here in British Columbia, high school students are required to complete
> something like 30 hours of work experience (ie free labour) to graduate,
> and we get a lot of youth completing this requirement at our shops. We
> also run pretty informal Earn-a-Bike programs for youth who are in
> unconventional education settings, accessing social services, in
> alternative programs, or can't access our in-school programming for any
> variety of reasons. Lots of these kids are really focused on getting a
> job, but we can rarely accommodate that.
>
> I'm in the process of creating a checklist/worksheet of mechanical and
> interpersonal skills acquired by youth as they volunteer in our spaces.
> The idea is that it would include gradients of skill, becoming increasingly
> more complex as time goes on. It would be used to guide their time in the
> shop, and also document what they've learned. It would be the youth's
> responsibility to fill the checklist out over time and have staff sign off
> on it, and when it's completed, we would write them a letter of
> recommendation to be used in applying for jobs, school, whateva.
>
> So....do yall have anything like this in place? Or any other relevant
> Earn-a-Bike or alternative youth programming materials I can creep and reap?
>
> SEND THEM TO ME!
>
> Thanks buddiez!
>
> Lauren @ OCB
>
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