Day 12: Tuesday, July 20, 10

Agenda:

• Conflict Intervention
• Break
• Reflection(s)
• What is Youth Participation?

Conflict Intervention: trying to turn a negative situation into a positive situation

• usually a situation/conflict that would need intervening by an adult/staff member
• must come up with a scenario where an adult would need to intervene to solve the problem
• in scenario each group member be a youth/child between ages 5-18 (no adults)
• develop a skit that plays out the scenario and a volunteer from the audience is the adult that tries to intervene to solve the problem

Adult Intervention Questions Debrief:

1. What did the adult do to help the situation?
2. How did the adult feel (before, during, after)?
3. What else could the adult have done to help each young person feel safer?

Group 1: "He's My Man!"- Ages: 14-17; Number of Youth: 4; Conflict: Two young girls fight concerning "Dennis" being their boyfriends; the other two youth had taken the side of either young ladies and instigated the problem from a far... While the ladies fight, has Dennis flees the scene?

Group 2: "They Won't Let Me Play!"- Ages: 6-7; Number of Youth: 4; Conflict: It's recess time! Two students are playing catch, one student is jump roping, and the other wants to play with the ball catchers. The student asks if she can play with the ball catchers and the boy says "No" then the other jump rope students comes over to ask also... then the water works and cootie calling begins!

Group 3: "Habla Ingles!"- Ages: 13-14 (7th grade); Number of Youth: 4; Conflict: Two Spanish speaking girls come out of class discussing that another student got an A in their class and are thinking about asking her to help them (conversation is all in Spanish). The A Student's friend overhears and instigates the situation; not knowing what the Spanish Speaking girls said she approaches them with a bad attitude... Que?

Group 4: "Forget Yo MP3!"- Ages: 13-14: Number of Youth: 3; Conflict: One student is giving a "Show and Tell" presentation to the class about his MP3, while the other two students are talking during his presentation and being disrespectful. The presenter becomes upset and starts an even more ruckus and the youth get into a loud verbal battle... No MP3s were hurt during this presentation...