Rix Research & Media, University of East London Docklands Campus, London. E16 2RD
Calling all Wiki Coordinators! The next Rix Wiki Community Event is going back to basics:
Rethinking Wikis for Information
Making images work for you
Gearing up Easy-to-Read with Multimedia
Re-focusing on Multimedia Advocacy – Putting it into practice with Wikis
We’re gathering together great models of best practice that we’ve found out about, that we want to play back to you our community of Wiki users.
We will be sharing the outcomes from our 2017 Rix Wiki Impact Evaluation, as well as talking about Wikis for Local Offer and really zooming in on how to support people to make great Wikis & make your information Wikis even better.
Click HERE to download the flyer or to book your place email rixadmin@uel.ac.uk
How Do Rix Wikis Impact the Effectiveness of SEND Service Delivery?
Free Webinar with live Q&A
Aired: Wednesday 19th February 2018, 13:00 – 13:30
Andy Minnion MBE discusses findings from our research, which included nine Local Authorities, showing the impact of Rix Wikis in making SEND provision more efficient.
Key Findings discussed:
How Efficiencies and Cost Savings are being achieved through streamlining personalisation, improved administration, a reduced need for meetings and paperwork and less litigious negotiations.
How Rix Wikis have improved Communication between providers and families, meeting SEND Reform aspirations for less adversarial interaction between families and local authorities with reduced disputes and tribunals.
How Local Authorities are using Rix Wikis to provide Accessible Information, signposting people to services and information to complement and improve the Local Offer.
On the 24th and 26th of January this year, the PurpleSTARS mounted a ‘Pop-Up Museum’ at the Tate Modern to highlight the group’s innovative approach to making public culture more relevant and engaging for people with learning disabilities. The Pop-Up was featured as part of the Gallery’s Tate Exchange programme designed to provide educational experience themed around their Art Exhibitions.
Our Pop Up Museum was inspired by a show at the Tate Modern by the Kabakovs, celebrated artists from Russia who use different formats and materials to explore the relationship between art exhibits, their audiences and the authorities that commission art and influence what is deemed to be worthy of putting on public display. The PurpleSTARS were particularly inspired by an installation by Ilya Kabakov called ‘The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away’, made in 1996 and based on an imaginary character who had collected all of the ordinary items and rubbish he gathered throughout his life and then labelled and displayed them in his apartment. The Pop-Up Museum provided a way for visitors to the Kabakovs’ Tate Exhibition to rethink their own throw-away items in the same way, share their own stories of daily life and take part in a re-worked version of a public installation.
Visitors to the Pop-Up Museum were asked to donate a personal object to share any memories and stories associated with their contribution. The PurpleSTARS team guided visitors through the process, supporting and encouraging them to reflect on the sensory dimensions of both their objects and their memories. In this way the Pop Up Museum provided visitors with a cluster of multi-sensory experiences, making the Museum accessible for visitors of all ages and with different abilities. One visitor who created a display featuring pair of used theatre tickets with her mother said of her visit to the Pop-Up, “What a wonderful way to build a memory and story around an object I thought I had very little connection to. Awesome to sit with my Mum and make something together. Thank You”
The PurpleSTARS effectively co-curated their pop-up Museum on the spot at the Tate with its visitors. The team ran creative arts and media activity; using interactive postcards to make labels for the collection and interviewing visitors about their objects on video, running a photo shoot lit with purple light – and building a Sensory Pop-Up Museum Wiki on the spot with all the contributors.
On Friday, Judith, Rafaro and Kate from the Purple Stars delivered a ‘Ten Minute Tate Talk’ about the Pop-Up in front of Kabakov’s installation – making a piece of history as the first ever ‘Tate Talk’ to be delivered within a paying exhibition!
The Pop-Up Museum’s Wiki serves as a permanent Archive for the temporary Museum, providing a way to share the work of the PurpleSTARS more widely and inspiring other Exhibitions and Museums to consider adopting the creative approaches developed by our Enterprise to make their own collections more inclusive.
The ‘Pop Up Museum’ is to be one of a set of Training and Consultancy packages that the PurpleSTARS will offer UK Museums and Galleries when the Enterprise launches later this year. You can visit the PurpleSTARS website at www.purplestars.org.uk.
This project is the latest focus for the Rix Research & Media’s collaborative work with artists and technologists from Reading University and people with learning disabilities affiliated with Rix, who have developed skills and expertise in making public culture more inclusive. The PurpleSTARS sensory specialists are based at the Tower Project in East London and have been developing their professional service offer for Museums and Galleries with Rix as an inclusive enterprise in collaboration with Reading University and Tower’s Jobs, Enterprise and Training programme (JET). The project is supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council as a Follow on Project for the three-year Sensory Objects Research Project that the partners completed in 2016.
Rix Research & Media’s Multimedia Advocacy approach has been recognised by the German government as an example of international best practice in the field of inclusion. We were honoured to be invited to present at the Inclusion Days 2017 Conference in Berlin, alongside leaders in inclusion practice and research from across the globe.
The conference, which took place on 4th & 5th December, was held at the Berlin Congress Centre and brought together an audience of policy makers and practitioners interested in improving people’s physical access to services, information and education.
Acting Director of Rix Research Gosia Kwiatkowska attended the conference to help deliver a presentation as part of the European SOIL project consortium.
Gosia also delivered a presentation along with Kathryn Stowell from Charlton Park Academy entitled ‘Multimedia Advocacy & Rix Wikis’. The presentation was delivered to 80 people as part of a panel forum. They talked about the person-centred principles of Multimedia Advocacy and how these can be applied in education to support inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities, speakers of other languages and migrant communities.
Gosia said “It’s been a fantastic conference, and a powerful platform to disseminate and promote adoption of these inclusive education practices that have the real potential to change lives and improve outcomes for the individual.”
The presentation was well received and stimulated a lot of interest and discussion from an audience that included the German Minster of Education.
The Rix approach is described on page 50 & 51 of the published conference papers.
Rix Wiki Evaluation 2017 – Early Findings
Free Webinar with live Q&A
Aired: Thursday 7th December 2017, 13:00 – 13:30
Professor Andy Minnion discusses how Camden are transforming accessible information to complement their Local Offer with Richard Lohan, Accessible Information Officer at the London Borough of Camden.
EARLY FINDINGS: Rix WIKI EVALUATION 2017
In this webinar, we discuss the emerging findings from our recent evaluation of the use of Rix Wikis in various UK Local Authorities in recent years.
Our research is highlighting improvements in Communication and Advocacy PLUS Cost Savings and Efficiencies that Local Authorities from our community of practice have realised through the adoption of Multimedia Advocacy and Rix Wikis. This webinar will look at our key findings that include:
How Local Authorities are using Rix Wikis to provide Accessible Information, signposting people to services and information to complement and improve the Local Offer.
How Rix Wikis have improved Communication between providers and families, meeting SEND Reform aspirations for less adversarial interaction between families and local authorities with reduced disputes and tribunals.
How further Efficiencies and Cost Savings are being achieved through improved administration and a reduced need for meetings and paperwork.
The Assisted Pilots will see the uniquely innovative prototype MaTHiSiS educational platform piloted in a wide range of settings. Rix Research is coordinating the pilots in London that will look specifically at the use of the MaTHiSiS platform with target groups with PMLD and ASD. We are really excited to discover how this innovative software, which has a unique algorithm that has been developed to work with a camera to capture the ‘affect state’ of the learner and then adjust their learning tasks appropriately, will work with this particular group of learners who can be extremely difficult to read, reach and understand.
By automatically adjusting the skills and levels of learning according to the feelings and emotions captured – for example is the learner happy, frustrated, engaged, motivated – the MaTHiSiS platform has the potential to achieve genuinely personalised learning that is engaging, enabling and truly inclusive.
The MaTHiSiS educational platform aims to provide every type of learner, in every type of setting, on the device they have at their disposal, with a bespoke, individualised learning experience that is adapted to their personal requirements. This ambitious 3 year project expects to have a version of the platform market ready for commercial exploitation by December 2019.
You can read more about the project and Rix Research here:
The purpleSTARS advisory group launched a forthcoming project with the Glenside Hospital Museum in Bristol with a kick-off planning session earlier this week. Stella Man, who runs the museum, visited Rix Research & Media at UEL for the meeting, which scoped out how between January and September 2018 the purpleSTARS Archive & Sensory Teams will visit Glenside and train a team of 5 local people with learning disabilities to work with the Rix Wiki software to make a sensory expedition trail of the museum. This work also plans to feature an App that will be made available to Museum visitors.
purpleSTARS brings together a group of artists and technologists with and without learning difficulties/disabilities to transform museum experiences and make them really inclusive. They use sensory and digital media to create alternative interpretations of museum collections.
The purpleSTARS Archive Team are part of the ‘Access All Areas’ theatre group. They have become Wiki experts over the course of working on a number of Rix Research projects, all connected to museums and archiving.
The purpleSTARS advisory group at the British Museum
Rix Research are delighted to be working once again with the University of Reading to extend the benefits of the award-winning AHRC funded ‘Sensory Objects’ project, through the 1 year Sensory Objects Enterprise 2017/18 AHRC follow on funding grant. The purpleSTARS enterprise are the start-up enterprise that has been created with the help of this grant. The project with Glenside Hospital Museum is one of the purpleSTARS first archiving and sensory commissions.
Read our account of the purpleSTARS enterprise project HERE, or visit the purpleSTARS or Sensory Objects website for further information, or to commission the purpleSTARS to make a sensory expedition to your museum.
After two years of working in partnership with specialist organisations in Greece, Poland, Lithuania and Sweden, 3rd November was officially the final day of the Erasmus + funded Puzzle Project.
Here at Rix Research Prof. Andy Minnion marked the end of the project with by presenting the final outcomes to the wider Rix Team. We learnt about how the project has really interrogated ideas of Easy to Read and looked at how to make information for people with intellectual disabilities more inclusive, especially in the area of improving people with intellectual disabilities understanding of Human Rights and self-advocacy. Read about the outcomes, access the resources and find out more about Human Rights on the Puzzle website.
We were delighted that so many of you were able to attend our Community Event on 10th October. It was a really stimulating and inspiring session and for that we’d like to thank our presenters: Charlie Connor and Rachel Frogatt from West Sussex, Jeannie Donald-Mckim from Abingdon Witney College in Oxfordshire and Tiffany Middleton from Hillyfields School in Waltham Forest.
Rachel and Charlie represent West Sussex
Also a big thank you to self-advocates Amiee & Connor from The Baked Bean Company in Wandsworth and, Rufaro, Lee and Paul from Access All Areas and Santino from the Central & North West London Recovery College for their fantastic presentations.
Santino, Lee, Rufaro and Paul presenting their project about Brian Rix
Santino, Lee, Rufaro and Paul presenting their project about Brian Rix
We hope that those who attended were able to capture some useful strategies and ideas for maximising Wiki take up to take forward in their local contexts and settings. Here are some notes from our workshop session on the day.
We look forward to seeing you at our next Community Event, which will take place in early 2018.
When: 15th May 2017
Where: Rix Inclusive Research, University of East London
Who: It’s an open invitation to our Innovation Lab, so if you use Wikis you are welcome! We send out information about our events but contact us if you want to make sure you’re in on the next one.
What’s it all about?
The purpose of the Rix Wiki Innovation Lab is to share future developments and improvements planned for Rix Wikis. As well as us sharing our progress with you, we heard from our Wiki users and shared ideas to help inform the next stage of development for the Wikis. Basically, how can we make them better!
The day is really informal and fun (we hope!). It is a chance for us to share and discuss together new ideas about the Wikis. We use lots of post it notes and drawings to record our thoughts so we can reflect on them. In each innovation lab we cover slightly different themes, in this lab we discussed the following:
Your ideas for Wiki tweaks
What’s new from us
Sharing a Wiki – How and Why?
Sharing Wiki data with other softwares – What are the benefits and for who?
Report from the Day
We started things off by adding to our Wiki tweaks ideas board and thinking about anything that could improve the Wiki. In this lab we had suggestions about events we could run to spread the word about Wikis, as well as using a messaging feature within the wiki and linking to Google Translate.
We then gave your our news. We shared with you the improvements we’d made to adding videos to a Wiki (they now process much faster!) and demonstrated the download an offline version of the Wiki as a PDF document in which we had some really useful feedback.
The theme of the day was sharing a Wiki, so we asked everyone how Wikis were being shared with them, or how they were sharing their own Wikis and who with. Did they share with people in person? Did they use the invite feature? Who is sharing with you?
We explored the current Rix Wiki invite feature and how we could help users make ‘informed’ sharing decisions and help them to understand how professionals are engaging with a young person’s Wiki.
We had great insights on this from people who were sharing Wikis and those who were having Wikis shared with them.
We then started to think about sharing Wikis and their content in a wider context. An expert in this kind of sharing, Paul Downton, shared with us a future roadmap where Wikis are central to other systems and data. This would mean that Wiki users have more choice of what information they can import to their Wiki and also different ways they can share or export things from their Wiki to other people. The response to this presentation was really positive, and people clearly resonated with some of the problems Paul described about sharing data in the place that you work. We think it will make a great addition to our next innovation lab to explore this in more depth.
Illustration of how Wikis might integrate with other software
As always, this innovation lab was a very interesting session and we left with some key insights in where we are going next and some further plans for our next lab. We will be releasing details of the next event soon – we hope to see you there! In the meantime, if you do have any suggestions for the Rix Wiki we are always happy to take note – just drop us an e-mail at: support@rixhelp.org
A Rix Inclusive Research ‘Talking Heads’ discussion between three Local Authority SEND implementation leads in different regions.
Local Authority Perspectives: a different approach to Education, Health and Care planning
Free Webinar with live Q&A
Aired: Thursday 20th April 2017: 13:00 – 13:30
Since the Children and Families Act (2014) and the SEND code of practice have come into effect, Local Authorities have been grappling with significant and challenging changes that will deliver the requirements for individuals with special educational needs and disabilities.
This legislation places emphasis on finding ways of capturing the voice and aspirations of children and young people with SEND to inform the EHC planning process. And this requires a new approach.
In this webinar, we’ll look at the impact that Local Authorities from our community of practice have realised, through the adoption of Multimedia Advocacy and Rix Wikis.
This panel discussion will help you understand:
Innovative approaches adopted by Local Authorities to put families and young people with complex needs in control of their information
How Local Authorities are capturing the voice of these individuals and their approach to sharing this information.
The efficiency and effectiveness impact to EHC planning
Give you the opportunity to have your questions answered
About Rix Inclusive Research:
Rix Research & Media has been pioneering inclusive and co-produced technology to put children & young people with disabilities and their families, in control of their information and share their needs and aspirations for over 15 years. Rix Research & Media is engaged with a range of inclusive research projects across the UK, Europe and the US in addition to working with 20 Local Authorities in the UK.
Contact us for details of how to apply for the co-developed ‘Doing Things Differently’ Research Partnership
This year’s BETT Show was bigger than ever and Rix Research & Media were delighted to be invited to present at this important event in the Education calendar.
The 2017 BETT Show (previously known as the British Educational Training and Technology Show) took place in January, attracting over 30,000 visitors over four days and was attended by teachers, educators, technologists and decision makers from the UK and overseas. It was the perfect environment in which to showcase the ‘Multimedia Advocacy Pathway to Personalised Learning’ – a theoretical learning pathway and suite of accompanying modules specially developed by Rix Research to help educators use mobile technologies to achieve genuinely personalised teaching & learning.
Principal Researcher Gosia Kwiatkowska presented the Pathway to an audience of education professionals on the ‘SEN Learn Live’ stage. She described how this innovative model brings together for the first time three underlying sets of principles; those of person-centred practice; universal design for learning and Multimedia Advocacy. These guiding principles underpin each step on a learning pathway made up of 14 short modules covering 4 units or stages; ‘About Me’; ‘Getting to Know Me’; ‘My Needs and Taking Control’
As educators follow the stages of the Pathway they understand how to employ person-centred tools alongside mobile apps and technologies to firstly know their learners and keep them actively involved at the centre, driving their own learning. As they find out more about their learners’ needs they start to apply the principles of universal design for learning, again using different tools and mobile technologies to adapt both their teaching and the learning environment to accommodate different learning styles and create personalised learning episodes that keep the learner activated and engaged. The final steps of the Pathway bring an understanding of rights and how these tools can be used to empower the learner to advocate for themselves and truly take control of their learning.
The Multimedia Advocacy Pathway to Personalised Learning was developed by Rix Research as part of IncluEdu, an international corporation project funded by the European Commission. You can find out more about IncluEdu, including how to apply for an Erasmus mobility grant to attend the IncluEdu Tablet in Education courses, on the IncluEdu website www.incluedu.com.
Rix Research were in Graz, Austria last week helping to deliver a really exciting week of teaching to European Educators. The group of twenty two teachers from schools in Portugal, Italy, Romania, Germany, Finland, Poland and Croatia were attending the latest ‘Inclusive Education with Tablets’ course and discovering how they can change the way they teach using tablets and mobile devices.
Gosia Kwiatkowska and Charlie Saward delivered two modules from the ‘Multimedia Advocacy Pathway to Personalised Learning’. The Pathway is a step-by-step model for educators that has been specially developed by Rix Research. Employing the values & principles of person-centred thinking, Multimedia Advocacy and Universal Design for Teaching & Learning in combination with tablets and mobile devices, educators can follow the Pathway to achieve teaching & learning that is genuinely personalised for their learners. Gosia explains “We have to remember that apps and mobile devices, whilst they have the potential to be hugely powerful teaching tools are still just tools, what’s important is that we [teachers] use them with purpose, that we use them with the right approach.”
Charlie working with European participants on the tablet course
The courses are designed & delivered by the IncluEdu project partners – a strategic partnership of five leading European organisations, including Rix Research, who collectively have a unique expertise in the field of ICT and inclusive learning. IncluEdu has developed a range of competence-based courses that enable European Educators to use tablets and mobile devices to both activate and empower their learners. The Multimedia Advocacy Pathway to Personalised Learning sits at the heart of the course offer as the theoretical backbone.
“It was a great course that will really change my teaching” commented one participant, “I will definitely be using the Nearpod and thinking about how I can put my students at the centre oflearningprocess.”
If you are a European teacher or educator interested in using tablets and mobile devices to empower your learners, you may be able to apply for an Erasmus+ mobility grant to participate in our courses. To find out about upcoming courses and apply for funding visit the IncluEdu website.
The full ‘Multimedia Advocacy Pathway to Personalised Learning’ course will be running in London in September 2017. The next course will take place in Dublin in December 2016.
Gosia working with European participants on the tablet course
All of us at Dover
Hello, allow me to introduce myself, I’m Kassie Headon, the new Technical Coordinator here at Rix Research & Media. On a sunny Tuesday in November, myself and a team of staff from Rix, along with participants from the Tower Project in East London, went to Dover to try out the ‘Channel Heritage Trail’ developed especially for the occasion by MA student, Sarah Mees. Sarah is from Dover, and created the history trail about her hometown on a Rix Wiki. Sarah worked with the Tower project before our trip to get tips on how to make her trail more accessible.
This is part of the ‘Sense of Place’ strand of our Rix Research work on the ‘Living Archive for the Social History of People with Learning Disabilities’ project, which is funded by AHRC. We are working with the Tower Project team who were co- researchers on the previous ‘Sensory Objects’ project (also funded by AHRC) and who are bringing their experience of exploring ways in which a focus on visitor’s sensory experiences can extend the relevance and accessibility of heritage sites. This inclusive research work is further developing these themes and exploring ways that multimedia can label and guide visitors at these locations – both in museums and outdoor public spaces – so bringing them more to life for people with learning disabilities and providing ways to engage their interest.
Using an iPad to test the Heritage Trail on a Rix WikiLooking at the Heritage Trail on a Computer
When we got to Dover, our first stop on the trail was the statue of Jamie Clark (the Olympic Torch bearer for Dover in 2012). When we got there Jamie himself appeared along with his Olympic Torch! Thanks to Jamie we had a chance to hear about his experiences and hold the torch ourselves.
Jamie stood next to his statue holding the Olympic Torch on the Dover Seaside
Using the Wiki to guide us, we went on to experience some of the highlights of the trail. This included some of the many statues along the sea front like the Channel Swimmer Matthew Webb, the Channel Dash memorial, and the statue of the Merchant Navyman. In this spirit, some people then formed their own ‘statue’ on the plinth recently vacated by the ‘Waiting Miner’.
Feeling the Merchant Navyman’s shoesWe found an empty space so we made a pose!
After lunch, at a former ship yard premises on Dover seafront featured on the trail, we left for our train back to London.
We all enjoyed the day and came away having learned something about Dover, and, found a new way we could use Rix Wikis. The Tower team will be further developing this exploratory and inclusive work with our OU and Rix research teams and contributing material with a location heritage and sensory focus to the prototype Archive in the New Year.
The Channel Heritage Trail wiki is currently only available to invited visitors. Contact Sarah Mees by email at u1541747@uel.ac.uk for more information.
We also made the local news!
We made the news!
All of the team at Rix Research & Media are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Lord Rix. The Rix centre is named in honour of Brian Rix and he was instrumental in establishing research in technology for people with learning disabilities at UEL at the turn of the century.
Lord Rix passed away on Saturday 20th August at the age of 92. In addition to being a well known stage actor and entertainer, Lord Rix was a tireless campaigner for the learning disability community and was also the University of East London’s first Chancellor from 1997 to 2012. In 2014 he helped establish The Rix Centre at the university, now Rix Research & Media, which was founded to explore and develop ways of using new technologies to transform and enrich the lives of people with learning disabilities.
Since 2014, the Centre has pursued action research in partnership with disabled people, their families and the various professionals that provide for their education, health and care – and none of this might have been achieved without the support and inspiration of Lord Rix.
Here at Rix Research & Media, we will continue to feel the impact of his passionate belief in providing people with disabilities with opportunities to thrive. He constantly supported and guided our work and was a true inspiration. He will be greatly missed.
Lord Rix speaking at the House of Lord’s in 2009 for the launch of the Rix Centre’s Click Start project
The Rix Inclusive Research team have produced this short video that features the voices of the people with learning disability with whom Lord Rix has worked with over the years. They appear on camera to celebrate his life and achievements and share their experiences of working with Brian as his colleagues. Their moving comments highlight the affect that knowing Brian has had on them as individuals as well as the tremendous contribution he has made to their ongoing campaign to achieve equality as disabled people in our society. The video will be a key contribution to Lord Rix’s memorial.
From the Archive: Brian Rix presents ‘Let’s Go!’ – Lord Rix’s enduring commitment to media advocacy for people with learning disabilities is reflected in this vintage video extract from the ‘All About Us!’ DVD, produced to accompany the book that he wrote of the same name, published by Mencap in 2006. The ‘Let’s Go!’ series featured various day-to-day activities that could help enable independent living for young disabled people with the right support, such as using the telephone, traveling on public transport and just going out and having a good time! ‘Let’s Go!’ included sequences in which people with learning disabilities used the technologies of the time, including SLR cameras and computers. The programme, shown every Sunday morning on the BBC, actively promoted the use of new and emerging technologies to directly benefit people with learning disabilities and presented the vision of inclusion for this population that Brian campaigned for in so many other ways throughout his life. Lord Rix instilled the same goals and values at the heart of the Rix Centre as it was established more than 40 years later at the University of East London.
“A Wiki can be an amazing multi-faceted tool that can help people at all stages of life, in different ways.”
Trisha Holmes is Project Manager 0-65 Disability Service at Croydon Council. Trisha is implementing Multimedia Advocacy and Rix Wikis throughout the borough, to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. She has also set up a post-16 project using Wikis to help young people transition into adulthood.
These are her words:
“Why am I so passionate about Wikis? They are so empowering. A lot of children and young people with additional needs and disabilities are reduced to problems on the page. With a Wiki, you immediately turn the problem upside-down and you actually see the human being.”
“I’m working with parents who have started to develop their Wikis, including one who has a child with complex health needs and who has at least 17 different carers. Her mum could see the value of a Wiki, to show what she can do, how she communicates and to teach the carers how to care for her when they know she’s in pain, or she’s hungry or thirsty. It’s incredibly powerful.”
“Another mum shared her son’s Wiki with us. She explained that Harry can’t have a conversation with anyone easily and won’t look anyone in the eye. But she showed a video of him standing on stage at the Royal Albert Hall, in front of hundreds of people, playing in an orchestra. And that’s the power of a Wiki. Suddenly you look at Harry in a different way.”
Post 16 project
“There’s a group of young people and we want to work with them to provide pathways into education and employment for them. These are young people who would have been sent away to residential schools out of their own community. So they would have to come back and start to re-establish their social network, having lost touch with their school friends and not knowing how to get around in Croydon. So we’re keeping them in the community. They have a formal education two days a week then spend time at the local youth centre learning life skills.
“We’re helping them transition to adulthood. The young people have set up their Wiki, calling it ‘Access to Success’ – it’s a personalised study programme.
“So they are learning practical skills, about being safe, getting out and about, cooking, staying healthy, working together as a team, and making friends.”
Click the video below to see a short video of Trisha Holmes sharing her experience of implementing Multimedia Advocacy and Rix Wikis in Croydon.
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“There’s a group of young people and we want to work with them to provide pathways into education and employment for them. These are young people who would have been sent away to residential schools out of their own community. So they would have to come back and start to re-establish their social network, having lost touch with their school friends and not knowing how to get around in Croydon. So we’re keeping them in the community. They have a formal education two days a week then spend time at the local youth centre learning life skills.
“So they are learning practical skills, about being safe, getting out and about, cooking, staying healthy, working together as a team, and making friends.”