Youth at Risk Community Recreation Programme Development Training

Learning Outcomes

• Analyse the needs and risk factors of youth at risk within a community context.
• Design a community recreation programme that addresses identified needs and promotes positive youth development.
• Implement the recreation programme using appropriate facilitation techniques and safety protocols.
• Evaluate the programme's impact on youth participants and the broader community.
• Demonstrate inclusive practices that accommodate diverse youth backgrounds and abilities.
• Apply monitoring and reporting mechanisms to ensure programme sustainability.

Target Audience

This course is ideal for community development workers, youth workers, sports coaches, and NGO staff involved in designing recreational programmes for at-risk youth in South African communities.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Learners engage in hands-on practical sessions to design, facilitate, and evaluate recreation activities with at-risk youth. These practicals bridge theory and practice, allowing learners to apply needs assessment, activity design, facilitation, and monitoring skills in real or simulated community settings.

Practical Activities

• Community Needs Assessment Simulation — Learners conduct a mock needs assessment using surveys and focus groups with volunteer youth, then analyse findings to inform programme design. (6h)
• Activity Design and Facilitation Workshop — Learners design and facilitate a 2-hour recreation session for a group of at-risk youth, incorporating life skills and safety protocols. (8h)
• Monitoring and Evaluation Exercise — Learners develop M&E tools (survey, observation checklist) and collect data during a recreation session, then analyse and report findings. (4h)
• Partnership and Resource Mobilisation Role-Play — Learners role-play a partnership meeting with a potential funder or community partner to negotiate resources for a recreation programme. (4h)
• Final Programme Proposal Presentation — Learners present their integrated programme proposal to a panel, demonstrating all aspects from needs assessment to sustainability. (2h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.