Considering the nine basic requirements and guiding principles, which ones do you think apply to Tamara’s experience? How do you think you can apply them to the work you do with children? Share some examples.
What challenges do you foresee in applying the 9 basic requirements and how could you overcome them?
1. Voluntary, Relevant (as defined by the youth), Respectful (part of a faith practice they already followed), Transparent. I am curious how the communication around Safety (risks of involving youth in broadcasting) went, and how Accountability might be a part of this project.
2. It’s fantastically useful to have these as a checklist to refer to. An example that came to me while I was reading was planning in advance to speak to youth about what happens during an emergency as “Currently, the only people who are trained to be responsible in an emergency scenario are these named adults. So if there is an emergency, we will pause our collective decision-making and follow the directions of those people because we trust them to keep us safe.” There are a lot of scenarios I can see reframing that way, so that routine ways that adults take control become negotiated/informed instances of adults being granted power.
3. Building child-friendly language at different developmental levels seems like the biggest challenge…seems to me like it’s a call to learn how to communicate differently whole-cloth, and would take time and trust to develop between participants.
