It is time to listen to our young people, to let them be, to feel that they belong, their voices matter and they are being heard. Therefore, this session is not content heavy but rather provides some insightful questions that, with your young people, you can perhaps reflect over individually or in groups and share with one another. In this space, it is hoped that your young people can safely address their fears, as well as hopes, for the future, to dream together, form one another and offer their challenges. We remember that healing takes time, and it is hoped that, with the support of one another, we may heal from this and find new ways to be in the world, seeking positive transformation out of this time.
Main Resources
Young Adults’ and Leaders’ Unit Notes Download
Young People’s Resource Sheet Download
Conversation starter video - Direct Link
Reflection Image Download
Power Point reflections Download
Powerpoint adapted by a school chaplain for an assembly and powerpoint plan
Other resources:
Source Word Document
You are welcome to download the longer Leaders’ Word Document here, to adapt and create your own resources. Please share these resources with us. We will host them here for others to use (we believe this is a time to share our materials with one another to support each other’s work with young people)
We will add video and resource links here.
Prayer for these times - Kenelm Youth Trust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kq9ytiaGSA&feature=youtu.be
Making sense it all - 5 part series by NDCYS Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yW9QpInP9i8&list=PL4kmjRpuNF5I4FTifxuwJX7i7_7PfdgFCMan's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl ► Animated Book Summary: https://youtu.be/-srD1Deh9Xg
Being Black and Catholic - Diocese of Westminster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCax8kPRJoE&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR20obdPS7gClPU9_3ahjpkWAAoWUJn9mar-oi1l4IynDqeCUEsnb1LssQA
Making sense of it all: One Body many Parts - Black Lives Matter - NDCYS Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B5Hcm5jaAg
Black Lives Matter Resources - For Teachers/Chaplains to use and adapt:
Resource on Inclusivity and Diversity by Million Minutes
No place for Racism - A Parish Priest’s pastoral response - RC Southwark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48WIAo0k1b4
Undertake a listening survey with your young people. Delve deeper with young people in your parish today: https://millionminutes.org/understandingyoungpeople
YCW Review of life - Racism
Top 20 Black & African Catholic Saints! | Augustine, Josephine Bakhita, Athanathius, Perpetua etc - LizziesAnswers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_1I0B-KTfs&feature=youtu.be
BLM & Anti-Racism: A whole school responsibility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGrD9cGrW0&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3qDgG2x6YC8hrI6HIgMIsNQsoRiIOSVr3PJ1b_r1ye7pKUKkAVkX18LDk
National Youth Agency
A talk the National Youth Agency gave which clearly outlines what we can and cannot do right now in the youth sector: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzhfsK5xiGE
Their 40 page document which clearly outlines the responsibilities and precautions we need to take as the youth sector: https://nya.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/NYA-Guidance-version-2.pdf
Their main page and the overview COVID guidance: https://nya.org.uk/guidance/
Adapting to life after lockdown:
Managing your feelings about changes to lockdown - for young people: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/for-children-and-young-people/coronavirus/managing-feelings-about-changes-to-lockdown/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=cyp%20lockdown%20changes%20graphics&utm_content=cyp%20lockdown%20changes%20graphics
Adapting after lockdown: https://www.goodgrief.org.au/blog/adapting-after-lockdown
Returning to school and coronavirus (COVID-19) – NSPCC- https://www.nspcc.org.uk/keeping-children-safe/away-from-home/at-school/
In this week's episode of A New Normal, the Guardian journalist Iman Amrani speaks to young people about how they are coping with lockdown and the impact it has had on their lives, looking particularly at education, universities and mental health. She speaks to four young people from across the country, two of whom are about to start university courses and two of whom are about to finish theirs, and asks them about the future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcG_sk-JG0I
Supporting a child returning to school after lockdown - https://youngminds.org.uk/blog/supporting-a-child-returning-to-school-after-lockdown/
With special thanks to:
Anna Fraine (Author and collator of material - Million Minutes’ Trustee)
The Columbans
Saskia Hogbin (Diocese of Plymouth)
Jay Caraccido (Diocese of Northampton)
Eleanor Roberts (Archdiocese of Southwark)
Jessica Wilkinson (Diocese of Leeds)
Kevin Mendes (Diocese of Arundel and Brighton)
