HOW TO RUN A COURAGE CHILD PROTECTION WORKSHOP
This page will give you all the information and tools you will need to run our Courage Child Protection Flagship Workshop.
The first step is to download a Courage Quick Start Guide below. This is a poster that you can print out in A2 or A3 format and provides you with a visual guide from `1 to 12 on how to introduce (from 1 to 4) and run (from 5 yo 12) a Courage workshop. You can then watch the video on how to run a Courage Child Protection Workshop.
If you keep scrolling down this page you will see all of the child protection exercises, each has an introductory video, a presentation document and all of the workshop materials that you will need to run each exercise (you can download this for free or order a printed version from our Community page). You will also find a Courage Workshop Templates document that you can download and print out for each of your workshop groups to work through.
The first step is to download a Courage Quick Start Guide below. This is a poster that you can print out in A2 or A3 format and provides you with a visual guide from `1 to 12 on how to introduce (from 1 to 4) and run (from 5 yo 12) a Courage workshop. You can then watch the video on how to run a Courage Child Protection Workshop.
If you keep scrolling down this page you will see all of the child protection exercises, each has an introductory video, a presentation document and all of the workshop materials that you will need to run each exercise (you can download this for free or order a printed version from our Community page). You will also find a Courage Workshop Templates document that you can download and print out for each of your workshop groups to work through.
| How to run a Courage Workshop.pptx |
| A2 Courage Quick Start Guide Poster |
| Courage Child Protection Workshop Process.docx |
| Courage Child Protection Workbook.ppt |
Now watch and download the posters, presentations or support materials for each of the Courage Child Protection workshop exercises (numbered from 5 to 12 on the Quick Start Guide) below.
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: CREATING A VISION FOR OUR CHILDREN
After introducing Courage, the first exercise you will embark on when facilitating a child protection and community empowerment workshop is to create a vision of the kind of world you would like to create for your children. If you are running a workshop with children, the children will create a vision of the kind of world they would like to live in. To help you with this exercise, you will need to download the Courage Vision Presentation, and/or a Courage Child Development Needs and Rights Poster (A1), or a pack of Courage Empowerment Cards. You can print the poster and cards from the PDF documents below, or order the material on our Community page.
| Creating a Child Protection Community Vision.pptx |
| A1 Courage Child Development Needs & Rights Poster |
| Courage Child Development Needs & Rights Poster Script.docx |
| Courage Empowerment Cards |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: IDENTIFYING OUR CHILD PROTECTION CHALLENGES
Now that you have identified the kind of world you would like to create for your children, the next exercise in your community engagement workshop is to identify and agree all of the child protection challenges that are taking place in your community. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Community Map Presentation, and/or a Courage Community Map. If you are working with the presentation format you will need to project the Community Map onto a white board and use white board markers or pens to identify your child protection challenges. If you are working with a plastic Community Map, you will need stickers or buttons to identify your child protection challenges.
| Identifying Our Child Protection Challenges.pptx |
| A1 Courage Community Map |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: PRIORITISING OUR CHILD PROTECTION CHALLENGES
Once you have agreed that there are child protection challenges happening in your community, it is important to take some time as a group to understand these challenges better and then prioritise them from high, to medium, to low, or non existent in your community. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Child Protection Challenges Presentation and/or the Courage Disempowerment Cards below.
| Understanding & Prioritising Child Protection Challenges.pptx |
| Courage Disempowerment Cards |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: FROM DISEMPOWERED TO EMPOWERED SOLUTIONS
Now that you have identified the high priority child protection challenges in your community, you will need to develop strategies to address these challenges. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Empowered Child Protection Presentation and/or the Courage Empowered Child Protection Map (A1) below. You can also use the relevant cards in the Disempowerment/Empowerment Card Packs that you will have downloaded already.
| From Disempowered to Empowered Child Protection.pptx |
| A1 Courage Empowered Child Protection Poster |
| Courage Empowered Child Protection Poster Scipt.docx |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: CHILD PROTECTION & SAFEGUARDING STRATEGIES
As a child, parent, community member or child protection officer, it is important to know the step by step approach to keeping our children safe. In this exercise you will take participants through this process using the Courage Child Protection Process Presentation and/or the Courage Child Protection & Safeguarding Map (A1) below. You can find additional processes under the 'Process' page, these include presentations and posters on: Courageous Parenting; Prevention and Non-Statutory Child Protection Processes; Statutory Child Protection Processes; Sex, Conception & Pregnancy Awareness; Option Counselling for Crisis Pregnancy; Abandoned Child Protection Process; and Child Placement through Adoption.
| The Child Protection & Safeguarding Process.pptx |
| A1 Courage Child Protection & Safeguarding Poster |
| Courage Child Protection & Safeguarding Poster Script |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: CREATING WIN/WIN PARTNERSHIPS
It is important to remember that none of us will be able to solve the child protection challenges in our community on our own. We will need to work together with other likeminded individuals or organisations to help us achieve our child protection vision. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Partnership Presentation and the Courage Community Map below. If you are working with the presentation format you will need to project the Community Map onto a white board and use white board markers or pens to identify your child protection partners. If you are working with a plastic Community Map, you will need stickers or buttons to identify your child protection partners.
| Creating Child Protection Community Partnerships.pptx |
| A1 Courage Community Map |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: OUR RIGHTS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND VALUES
One of the most important steps in achieving a vision is defining the three to five values that will drive a meaningful change in your and your community's behaviour. To help us define these values, we start by matching our rights to our responsibilities. We then use this understanding to define our values. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Rights & Responsibilities Presentation and/or the Courage Empowerment Cards (you may have already downloaded these for the previous vision exercise).
| Child Rights & Responsibilities.pptx |
| Courage Empowerment Cards |
WORKSHOP EXERCISE: ACTION PLANNING
The final exercise in any Courage community engagement workshop involves action planning. In this exercise you will ask participants to identify the various actions they will be taking to ensure the achievement of your child protection vision. To help you with this exercise you will need to download the Courage Action Planning Presentation below.
| Developing an Action Planning.pptx |