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The three facilitator components run in parallel with the programme and are aimed at enhancing the understanding of young men’s lives and the iterative design of the programme. 1. Principles: The programme should be designed and delivered with reference to the principles for engaging young men. 2. Iteration: The programme should be iterative. That is, although the facilitator should progress through the three delivery components, the sessions should be based on the learning that emerges during each interaction 3. Reflection and evaluation: The facilitator should engage in a process of critical reflection following each session (refer to pg 68). An appropriate evaluation methodology such as pre/post-test design should be implemented to gauge the ‘distance travelled’. This should be agreed in partnership with your trainer? THE STRUCTURE AND MODE OF DELIVERY: • Group sessions are facilitated at least once per week • When being delivered to a targeted group of young men, group work sessions should be complemented with a 30-60 minute one-to-one session with each young man at least fortnightly. • The focus of the individual sessions should be on goal setting, goal review and reflecting on the learning from the group work sessions. • The project should last no less than 14 sessions and no more than 20 sessions (with delivery CC 3 sometimes ongoing) • Youth workers should have progressed onto delivery core component 3 by around session 10 and no later than session 14 . • Each group session should last between 1.5 and 2 hours • The intervention should be implemented by community based, professionally qualified youth workers with experience of engaging and supporting vulnerable young men at risk of engaging in violence, and/or criminal exploitation • The core components are only intended to provide a framework for delivery. Youth workers will be expected to draw on their own expertise to design the specific sessions. • Practioner should design their sessions in a planned and purposeful way, be creative with that design and ensure that all sessions connect to the realities of young men’s lives.

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