Youth Stars Programme kicks off with first session
Last Monday, March 15, the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety with YOURS – Youth for Road Safety and iRAP – International Road Assessment Programme launched the first session of the Youth Stars Programme.
The Youth Stars Programme, sponsored by FedEx, trains young leaders to use and apply the Star Rating for Schools (SR4S) methodology that was pioneered by iRAP. SR4S is an evidence-based tool for measuring, managing, and communicating the risk children are exposed to on their journey to school. The programme and the tool support quick interventions that save lives and prevent serious injuries for students everywhere.
When the Youth Stars Programme was initially released in 2019, it trained five young leaders to become Master Trainers capable of training fellow young people about the SR4S methodology and the star rating tool.
In the second year of the programme, the Master Trainers will be training members of the Coalition to use the SR4S methodology and the star rating tool. The training will run for one month and will be split into four sessions; introduction, discussion of the project structure, data collection, and FAQs and cases.
The first session was led by Master Trainers Daniel Cano from Cambodia and Minh Vo from Vietnam. More than 30 participants joined the session where they were able to ask and interact with the Master Trainers and Star Rating for Schools Global Coordinator, Rafaela Machado.
The session talked about the Youth Stars programme as part of a larger project that would help build the foundation of other road infrastructure projects, plan road infrastructure assessments, conduct school safety assessments, and communicate results and scale up positive outcomes.
Other topics covered were the SR4S process and methodology, the road safety attributed recorded, key principles behind the methodology, and access to resources that would support the Youth Stars sessions.
“My dream is for every school in the world to be star rated so that no child has to die needlessly on his or her way to school”