Junior Community Wardens.

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Junior Community Wardens.

• Andy Pilley
• Community Development Wardens Manager
• Chichester District Council Western Sussex PCT.
• Sue Long
• Community Warden Tangmere, Boxgrove Oving.

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Background

• Why Community Wardens?
• Why Junior Wardens?
• Whats New?

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Objectives

• Responsible citizens
• Positive, empowered community
• Ownership of local issues
• To be part of the solution
• Role models
• Peer pressure
• Increased environmental awareness
• Help make a better, safer, greener area

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How do they achieve this?

• Identify, Report, and follow up issues
• Reassuring presence.
• Encourage friends and family
• Taking pride in their community
• Take an active hands-on role
• Feeds into the Local Action Team

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Recruiting Sustaining

• Identifing and linking with partners
• Presentations to school
• 65 volunteers
• Apply to join, and chosen with aid of teachers
  Mixed ability group.
• Keen waiting list and zero tolerance policy

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Benefits The Community

• Less bored young people in the community
• Dispel perceptions of young people as a nuisance
• Prevents Broken Windows attitudes
• Shows local youths in a positive light
• Allows young people to make a positive visable
  impact on the community
• Greater integration, confidence and involvement
• Improved community facilities
• Cleaner, safer, greener neighbourhood.

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Benefits The Junior Wardens

• Contributes towards National Curriculum
  subjects
• Citizenship, PHSE, Geography etc.
• Structure for 8-12 year olds to make contribution
  to community.
• Provides an outlet in areas of limited facilities
• Encourages healthy activity
• Team building and social skills
• Respect of the community
• Increased self esteem

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Future Outcomes

• Young people as mentors and role models for peers
  and younger groups
• Adults and families to be encouraged to invest in
  their community
• Young people understand the impact of their
  actions on the environment
• Young people understand the importance of
  volunteering and the concept of community as they
  grow.

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• Foster responsibilities of good citizenship
• Ownership and responsibility for maintaining the
  community / environment.
• Increased self respect, plus respect of and for
  the community
• Lower risks of ASB, offending or exclusion from
  school
• Improved longer term employment / economic
  benefits

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Sample Projects

• Neighbourhood clean-ups, Litter Picks, Graffiti
• Regular uniformed community patrols
• Organising activities to divert from offending.
• Intergenerational projects to bridge the
  generation gaps locally.
• Activities to develop team work and trust
• In return they receive recognition and positive
  events to take part in.
• Process to be educational, rewarding, and
• FUN!.

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