2 YOUNG 2 DIE

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2 YOUNG 2 DIE

• Welcome

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Welcome

• About me, your trainerAbout you, and why you are
  here

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Today

• Today will be divided into four sections
• SECTION 1
• The background to the project and its objective
  and aims, methodologies and stakeholders
• SECTION 2
• Building credibility - how to be a great workshop
  leader
• SECTION 3
• Learning and preparing to lead on the topic of
  young driver and passenger safety, including
  background reading and lesson planning
• SECTION 4
• Key facts and messages and lively activities to
  run with young people

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SECTION 1

• The background to the project and its objective
  and aims, methodologies and stakeholders

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Context

• Brakes Road Safety Academy
• The 2YOUNG2DIE project is part of Brakes Road
  Safety Academy, training volunteers to deliver
  community education to key groups of road users.
• The Academy runs other projects, reaching out to
  other groups of road users, including parents and
  fleet drivers.

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Objective of 2YOUNG2DIE project

• To protect young people from dying while driving
  or a passenger with a young person, and to
  prevent young drivers from killing others
• Road crashes are the biggest cause of death and
  devastating injury of young people, often in cars

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Sponsors

• Sponsors the administration of the project and
• My time
• Liaison Officer to help you
• Development of resources
• Sponsored production of resources, including the
  website and the guide

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The 2YOUNG2DIE aims are to

• Give young people the knowledge they need to make
  smart choices about driving or being a passenger
  with a young driver
• Change young peoples attitudes to driving and
  being a passenger in a long-lasting, positive way
• Influence young peoples behaviour as drivers or
  passengers
• Save young peoples lives

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2YOUNG2DIE credibility

• Running since 2004
• Trained more than 1,300 volunteers
• Worked with thousands of young people
• Been academically evaluated by Napier University,
  who praised its ability to emotionally engage
  young people and positively change attitudes

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2YOUNG2DIE SAF3TY topics

• Speed and Overtaking
• urban speed, rural speed, overtaking
• Alcohol and Drugs
• any alcohol affects you all illegal drugs are a
  danger
• Focus
• driver distractions including mobile phones,
  passengers, music, etc. and tiredness
• 3 Seconds
• seat belts, head restraints
• Tip Top
• car maintenance, licensing and insurance
• Your life, Your future
• consequences and smart choices

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2YOUNG2DIE methods

• Enabling young people to make smart choices
  through
• True stories, presented through professional
  videos narrated by bereaved and injured people,
  available via www.2young2die.org.uk (or on DVD if
  an internet-connected interactive whiteboard is
  unavailable)
• Discussions, using scenarios, animated imagery
  and easily digestible facts via
  www.2young2die.org.uk (and downloadable
  photocopiable cards and printed cards)
• Activities, often with props

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Terminologies we use

• Volunteers
• trained Academy graduates who work with young
  people
• Participants
• the young people (because they participate they
  are not lectured at)
• Workshops
• what the volunteers and participants take part in

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Different trainers and volunteers have different
talents!

• Fire officers
• Teachers
• Police
• Youth workers
• Paramedics
• Community leaders
• Doctors and nurses

• Local employers
• Personal Injury Solicitors
• Youth offender workers
• Bereaved and injured people
• And more!

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Different volunteers have different

• windows of opportunity
• amounts of time they can give
• levels of experience of working with young people
• professional backgrounds providing different
  knowledge and skills
• What different reactions might young people have
  to different volunteers?

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Volunteers work with different young people

• Different ages
• Different social backgrounds
• Different environments
• Volunteers have worked in private schools right
  through to youth offender institutionsImportance
  of matching volunteer skills and experience to
  appropriate settings and groups

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Small is beautiful

• Small groups enable discussion, interaction, team
  work
• Try to work with small groups, and divide further
  into small discussion groups for activities
• But if you have the opportunity to present to a
  large group, then please still use the resources
  as possible e.g. in an assembly / all-school
  setting

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Your resources

• Todays training course
• Your 2YOUNG2DIE volunteers guide (in front of
  you)
• www.2young2die.org.uk your primary resource
• 2YOUNG2DIE DVD, discussion boards scenario-cards
  (downloadable by you)
• 2YOUNG2DIE booklets for participants (as many as
  needed)
• Links to websites and research through
  www.2young2die.org.uk and www.brake.org.uk

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On-going support

• Help, if needed, from your Liaison Officer
• E-bulletins about volunteer activities around the
  UK
• Your liaison officers details are on the front
  of your guide

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Flexible yet comprehensive

• Brake is proud of the 2YOUNG2DIE resources
• We want you to use them comprehensively but also
  appropriately
• The resources are designed to be flexible, so you
  can use them in a modular way that suits you
  best, according to the opportunities you have and
  restrictions you are working within

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You might, for example

• Regularly run the same 55 minute workshop with
  different groups of participants at the same
  school
• Run five workshops, over several months, with the
  same group of participants, covering different
  topics each time
• Run half-day or even one-day workshops with a
  larger group of participants, in partnership with
  other trainers locally, with the participants
  divided into smaller groups and rotated between
  different trainers

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Your 3-step commitment

• You will stay in touch so we can record your
  activity and we can apply for further funding and
  continue the project
• You will help us evaluate the project by
  returning forms from participants so we can
  develop it and improve it, and gain further
  funding
• You will help us fund the project by encouraging
  participants to run fun fundraising activities,
  or at least seek donations from participants.
  
• THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

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1. Staying in touch

• Call your liaison officer or email them with
  details of workshops you are planning or have run
• If we know about your workshops in advance we can
  help as necessary
• give you more or new resources
• issue a press release for you to your local media

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2. Help us evaluate

• Pre-training survey about behaviour on roads
  (helps you understand who you are going to
  train!)
• Post-training form rating the workshop/s and
  inviting them to Pledge to be safe
• Download from academy section of www.brake.org.uk
• Put in FREEPOST envelopes and return to Brake
• (Remember to include your own evaluation form or
  a cover note so we know who you are, and when and
  what you did!)

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3. Fundraise!

• BrakeBright Days dress bright, bring 1
• 2Young2Die competition campaign and collect
• Church plate collection while you show a DVD
  clip
• Can pay in donations on line or by phoning your
  liaison officer or we can send you a paying in
  slip to take to a bank

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SECTION 2

• Building credibility how to be a great workshop
  leader

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2.1 First impressions

• What to wear?
• Reactions to uniforms?
• Importance of feeling comfortable in your own skin

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2.2 Setting the scene

• A circle of chairs
• No desk between you and participants
• Lay out resources you will use so you can find
  them easily

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2.3 Introducing yourself

• It isnt just about giving your name, its
  aboutexplaining why you volunteer, your
  motivations and interests
• Provide colour and be creative. This could be
  through
• A story you tell
• A prop you bring with you relevant to your
  personal or professional connection to road
  death/injury
• One shocking key fact

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Introducing yourself

• Example one
• A 2Young2Die volunteer who has been bereaved
  tells a story about a fatal crash, showing
  pictures of the crash, and reading out statements
  collected by the police from witnesses to the
  crash and from fire officers. At the very end of
  the story, the volunteer shows a picture of the
  person killed in the crash and then reveals that
  this victim was a member of his family
• Example two
• A 2Young2Die volunteer who is a fire officer
  brings to his workshops some of his equipment for
  cutting people out of cars and a body bag he uses
  for collecting body parts. He explains how the
  equipment is used and tells stories about two of
  the worst crashes he has attended, including one
  where multiple young people died in a fireball in
  a head on collision on a rural road

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2.4 Language choice

• Avoid youth slang. Dont try to be down with the
  kids
• Say road crashes not accidents. Accidents
  misleadingly suggests crashes cant be prevented
  and are minor
• Avoid jargon and technical language. Say deaths
  not casualties or fatal injuries
• Say someone whose been bereaved or injured, not
  road crash victim. The word victim is open to
  misinterpretation
• You may find it hard to avoid jargon / technical
  speak if you are a professional you may need to
  practice!

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2.5 Tone and style

• Level headed and reasonable they dont want a
  lecture from a zealot
• Passionate not boring. Demonstrate you care
  through your tone and style. Dont be monotone
• Engage and be open to questions, discussion,
  ideas
• Dont try to be funny to engage participants
  this is a serious subject and young people can be
  surprisingly serious. But react appropriately if
  they make an appropriate joke
• The video clips will help you set the tone

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2.6 Pace

• Keep things moving. Dont let participants hijack
  a workshop and move you far away from your plan
• However, dont cut short an interesting and
  productive discussion of great value. Sometimes
  it is better to let it roll and cut something
  small off your plan
• Good lesson planning will help you stay on
  track as we will discuss later

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2.7 Confidentiality

• Participants may find it much harder to open up
  and share their experiences on roads with people
  in authority (eg. police officers) or someone who
  regularly works with them (eg. teacher, youth
  leader, youth offender worker)
• Provide confidential opportunities, such as
  participants writing anonymously on pieces of
  paper that are then folded over and put in a
  hat to be read out later

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2.8 Managing your emotions

• Take care of yourself
• Think about how you will feel try to predict
  problems and avoid them or have techniques to
  counter them
• You may not be able to predict how you will feel
  in all situations
• If control of emotions is too challenging, it is
  OK to stop delivering workshops for a while or
  permanently

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2.9 Troubleshooting

• Trouble makers should be dealt with quickly to
  prevent major disruption
• If you are working alongside the permanent carer
  of the participants, eg. a youth leader or
  teacher, they should deal with any problems, not
  you

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2. Concerns?

• Does anyone have any concerns about working with
  young people?

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SECTION 3

• Learning and preparing to lead on the topic of
  young driver and passenger safety, including
  background reading and lesson planning

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3.1 What research tells us

• It is valuable to read around the topic
• Go to www.brake.org.uk
• Go to the facts and scroll down to young driver
  section for briefings and research findings on
  young people in cars by Brake and others

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3.1 What research tells us

• Young people are more likely to take killer risks
  in cars such as speeding, not belting up, drunk
  and drugged driving, overtaking dangerously
• Young males are much more likely to offend and
  kill than young females. They over-estimate their
  abilities, under-estimate hazards, and get a
  rush from driving
• Young people find it hard to believe they will
  die, and may engage better with images of hideous
  injuries, or thoughts of killing or injuring
  mates or girlfriends
• Young people are heavily influenced by peer
  pressure, but also their social background and
  other external factors

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3.2 Understanding the curriculum benefits

• Safety education and good citizenship education
  are increasingly important in the curriculum
• The Every Child Matters agenda prioritises safety
  as key for young peoples welfare
• Educational establishments can really benefit
  from the 2YOUNG2DIE project

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3.3 Familiarisation with your resources

• www.2young2die.org.uk
• Lets browse it now and familiarise ourselves
  with its structure
• The DVD is a fall back in case the technology
  does not work or is not available
• The DVD has LESS clips on it than the website

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3.3 Familiarisation with your resources

• 2young2die guide for participants to take home
• Lets browse it now and familiarise ourselves
  with its structure
• The guide is not primarily for use during your
  workshop. It is for participants to take home and
  share with family and friends, to re-remind and
  communicate their experience

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3.3 Familiarisation with your resources

• A3 discussion boards
• Index card scenarios
• For use in different activities we will discuss
  later today
• Familiarise yourself now with how to download the
  index cards off the website

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3.3 Familiarisation with your resources

• Brake is not the only producer of resources for
  participants
• You may want to use others by other people
• However, beware over cluttering and limited
  time-2young2die resources can effectively be
  used on their own
• Some key useful extra internet resources are
  mentioned later
• Lets look now at the web list at the front of
  www.2young2die.org.uk and in educator section of
  www.brake.org.uk (scroll down to resources)

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3.4 Planning your workshops

• Writing a lesson plan
• Column 1 Contains a time line that you hope to
  stick to eg. 0-5mins, 6-15mins, 16-21mins, etc
• Column 2 Lists the activities you want to cover
  within the space of time you have allotted in
  column 1
• Column 3 Lists the resources you will need for
  each activity, so you know what to take, and
  which section of the website / DVD to turn to at
  any moment
• Lets look now at an example lesson plan in the
  guide

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3.6 Big ambitions

• With lots and lots of time and resources you
  could do so much more than the activities we
  discuss next. You could
• Put on a play eg Too Much Punch for Judy
• Study travel planning eg. Rospa guide
• Produce your own road safety video/radio/poster
  adverts and take part in Brakes 2Young2Die
  competition
• These things are appropriate if you are able to
  devote a whole scheme of work to the project,
  or work with partners such as teachers in
  different curriculum areas

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3.7 Tips on leading discussions

• A good time to run an inspiring discussion is
  after showing one or more of the 2young2die video
  clips
• Silence can healthy. Chance to pause and reflect
• Prompt qs who?, where?, how?, what? followed
  by why?
• Then more probing questions How did it make you
  feel? or How might you react in a similar
  situation?
• Dont let one individual hog debate, but if on a
  roll, dont unfairly cut them off
• Throw extras in, such as facts, charts or other
  info from www.2young2die.org.uk, scenarios to
  consider, or more clips
• Learn from how it went. What would you improve
  next time?

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3.8 Practicalities Getting started

• If you need help setting up a workshop, ask your
  liaison officer.
• There is a template letter in the Academy section
  of www.brake.org.uk that you can amend and send
  to local schools and colleges
• Once you have contacts, they will ask you back
  time and again
• Try to deliver workshops shortly after this
  training dont delay, it may get harder the
  longer you leave it!
• Who has links already? Who thinks they may need
  help?

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3.8 Practicalities Equipment and timing

• Is there an internet-connected interactive
  whiteboard?
• Will you have chance to practice using it?
• You may need a DVD player
• Always arrive early. Will the room be empty
  before so you can prep up (as well as build
  relationships with partners)

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3.8 Practicalities

• Getting there Try to use public transport when
  you can Brake is an eco-minded as well as safety
  charity. Our policy is to encourage you to use
  trains, buses, foot and bikes when you can, or
  car-share.
• Security Do not be alone with participants who
  are someone elses responsibility. In such a
  situation, the main teacher / youth leader must
  be present at all times
• Welfare Always find out in advance if anyone who
  might attend has been seriously affected by a
  road crash and consider options

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3.8 Practicalities Media coverage

• This is really valuable
• Spreads the message much further
• Involves participants in a photo call with a
  banner we provide (show example banner)
• Must have permission from any necessary parties
• Must tell your liaison officer about your
  workshop at least two weeks in advance so they
  can get relevant details from you and issue the
  release

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SECTION 4

• Key facts and messages and lively activities to
  run with young people

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SAF3TY TOPIC 1

• SPEED
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk speed section including
• Watch video clips and read stories
• Examine stopping distance chart
• Males v. Females deaths chart (in hard facts
  section and on A3 board)
• Speeding excuses and other facts in speeding
  facts section
• Online scenario, index card scenario
• Look at Rospas www.stoppingdistances.org.uk
  simulator
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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SAF3TY TOPIC 2

• DRINK AND DRUGS
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk drink and drugs section
  including
• Watch video clips and read stories
• Examine the timings section and morning after
  calculator and drug facts sections and
  discussOnline scenario, x2 index card scenarios
• Look at www.dft.gov.uk/think/dontdrugdrive/
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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SAF3TY TOPIC 3

• FOCUS
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk focus section including
• Watch video clips and read stories
• Online scenario, index card scenario
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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SAF3TY TOPIC 4

• 3 SECS
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk 3 SECONDS section
  including
• Watch video clips and read stories
• Examine head restraint images
• Online scenario, index card scenario
• Look at www.thatcham.org for more head restraint
  images in crash tests
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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SAF3TY TOPIC 5

• TIP TOP
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk Your Vehicle section
  including
• Read stories
• Discuss and look at a Brake tyre tread indicator
• Examine online scenario on tyres, index card
  scenario on uninsured driver
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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SAF3TY TOPIC 6

• YOUR LIFE, YOUR FUTURE
• Discuss key messages and facts then go through
  www.2young2die.org.uk
• Watch any remaining video clips and read any
  remaining stories not yet watched/read eg. Nicks
  story
• Look at www.cerysedwards.co.uk
  andwww.fmg.org.uk (For My Girlfriend campaign)
  www.rta.nsw.gov.au/roadsafety/speedandspeedcamera
  s/campaigns (No-one thinks big of you campaign)
• NOW TRY THE ACTIVITIES

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Thank you

• Please give a donation or consider fundraising -
  e.g. fun run, parachute jump, etc.
• Please join Brake - 40 for professionals, 10
  for public
• Good luck