Access Unlimited is led by the Royal Society of Blind Children (RSBC) and the partners in the consortium include, Youth Focus North East, The Albion Foundation, Henshaws, Kent Association for the Blind and Young Bristol.

This delivery is part of Engage Training and Consultancy and our role within the consortium is to facilitate links across the Network of Regional Youth Work Units to deliver capacity building training to support the overall project activity.

The aim of the training is to equip those working with young people to be more confident and able to support young people who have a vision impairment and in turn, make their offer more inclusive.

The learning outcomes are;

• Learning outcome 1: Understand how to include children and young people with a vision impairment into youth work activities
• Learning outcome 2: Gain an understanding of some of the most common vision impairments and how they can affect people
• Learning outcome 3: Gain an understanding of the sports specifically for blind and vision impaired people
  

To achieve the accreditation, learners need to demonstrate their learning from the training programme and their work will be assessed, IQA and EQA by the Skills and Education Group.

RSBC, Youth Focus North East and other Partners under the Access Unlimited Project (Access Unlimited for families in England – RSBC) are making Youth Organisations in England more accessible to visually impaired children and young people through Capacity Building Training.

What Capacity Building training?

This training is a free, interactive, online, three-hour training course where youth organisations gain the knowledge and confidence to include blind and partially sighted children and young people in their provision. This organisation includes local youth clubs, children’s clubs, sports sessions or anything else that welcomes children and young people.

What is been Taught?

Youth leaders will learn about common eye conditions, their impact on the individual, and the myth-busting around sight loss. They also will receive essential guidance around making their clubs, activities and sessions VI (vision impaired) friendly.

There will be an opportunity to gain a practical understanding of adapting virtual and physical activities to make them inclusive to children and young people with sight loss.

The Qualification:

Participation in the Capacity Building Training will enable youth leaders to access the opportunity for a formal accredited qualification in Youth Work and working with VI Young People.

This course is for all youth services delivering services for children and young people. This course is for youth workers, volunteers, young people, or anyone with a role working directly with children and young people.

In addition to this, as part of the Access Unlimited Project RSBC is providing special Online services for Visually impaired young people, click HERE to apply.