Change Agents: Greater Shepparton Council

What to expect

Would you like to feel more confident in supporting diverse community involvement before, during and after disasters? 

Do you want to include young people in disaster management, response, and recovery in a meaningful, ethical way? Want to hear more about the roles that young people can play in your community?  

You’ll walk away from this interactive training equipped with the skills and confidence to address young people’s unique lived experiences, support their involvement in disaster spaces, and empower them to access these spaces through enhanced accessibility, youth participation models, and ethical engagement.  

Through the careful and practiced guidance of our experienced facilitators, you will leave knowing how you can enhance youth participation in your communities’ existing disaster plans and actions.  

Topics we cover

• Youth Participation ​
• Youth Participation Theory ​
• Young people in your community ​
• Young people stages of Disaster ​
• How to engage young people 

 

Who should attend

This event is open to all in the youth sector and those who work with young people in a relational way and where the young person is their priority.

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Sign up to become a YACVic member to access membership discounts on tickets and to be notified first about resources and future webinars and events for young people and the youth sector.

We’ll also promote these in our newsletter, which you can sign up to here.

Commitment to Child Safety

YACVic is a child safe organisation. By attending these events, you agree to join us in our commitment to child safety.

Accessibility and Inclusion

At YACVic, we take access and inclusion seriously. If you have a specific access request, would like further information or want to provide any suggestions, we would love to hear from you. 

You can email or call us with your access and/or support requirements for this event using the contact information below.

YACVic are committed to access and inclusion. Throughout the training we have a ten-minute break, enable Zoom's automatic captioning and provide image descriptions of visuals used. If you require extra support to attend the session, we can book in live captioning and/or Auslan interpreters. 

Our work takes place through the lands of the Aboriginal nations within Victoria and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge that Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.