Children’s knowledge – CHANGEFACTORY

Publications

In order to collect, systematise and disseminate summarised experiences and advice from children, surveys and advice collections are conducted. A participatory and practice-oriented method, called the Changemethod, is used. Children and young people’s experiences and advice are summarised. Experiences and advice repeated by many children, from many places in the country, become the main answer.

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SCHOOL
KINDERGARTEN
HEALTH
CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM
CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Always collaborate with me (2025)

106 pupils, aged 12-17, have shared experiences and advice on how adults who work in schools can collaborate with pupils to create safe and helpful interprofessional collaborations

Boys’ advice on equality (2024)

186 boys, aged 13-19, give advice on what adults at school can do to ensure that boys feel treated equally to girls, so that boys feel that they are learning well and so that they can feel motivated.

Decide With Each Of Us (2024)

40 young people, aged 13-20, give advice on how the child protection system can collaborate with children when giving family guidance

Safe with each other (2024)

240 children, aged 8-18, give advice on how adults in school can contribute to more inclusion and less bullying.

Trust is Crucial (2024)

211 young people, aged 11-20, give advice on how adults in help services and the police can make it safe for children to trust the, tell honestly and decide together with them.

Safe with a Safety Advocate (2023)

51 young people, aged 13-21, give advice to the Child Protection System about the safety advocate arrangement.

Queer in School (2023)

54 young people aged 15-21, give advice to adults in school and pupils on how they can contribute to making it safer for pupils who are queer.

Let Us Talk about Feelings (2023)

259 young people, aged 16-23, give advice to teachers, public health nurses, and school social workers, and advice on how to work with different themes within mental health.

Collaboration in Patient Pathways (2023)

42 young people, aged 13-21, give advice on how children can be met wisely from start to finish in mental health care for children and young people.

Help where We Are (2023)

110 young people aged 13-21 give advice on how low-threshold services in municipalities have to be.

Meet Absence Safely (2023)

120 young people aged 13-19 give advice on how adults in school can meet children who are away a little or a lot from school, in ways that feel safe.

Understanding Drug Abuse (2023)

50 young people aged 15-23, give advice on how the future help for drug abuse has to be for the help to feel safe and helpful.

Safe for Us (2022)

722 children aged 2-5, give advice on how kindergarten has to be for it to feel safe for them.

Needs to Help for Us (2022)

101 children aged 8-18 give advice on how family guidance has to be done for it to feel safe and helpful for children.

The Way Forward (2022)

215 young people aged 18-25 give advice on how NAV-employees can give useful help.

Short Way to Friendships (2022)

210 young people aged 14-22, who are new in Norway, give advice to other young people and to adults in school, about how friendships are made and what helps them learn Norwegian quickly.

Talking Safely in School (2021)

1962 pupils aged 8-16, give advice on what it takes for children to be able to tell what is most important to them, and advice on what pupils wish to help decide and in what ways they wish to help decide.

Talking Safely in the Child Protection System (2021)

110 children and young people aged 8-19, give advice on what it takes for children to talk safely in the Child Protection System.

Not Mean – There’s Always a Reason(2021)

103 children and young people aged 13-20, give advice on how concern conversations, interrogations and punishment can be done in a safe and helpful way for children.

They Think They Know Best (2021)

152 children aged 11-18 have shared experiences and given crucial advice on how it must be and how children must be met at residential child care institutions for it to feel safe living there and so that children can get useful help.

Ask Us (2021)

201 children aged 7-16 share experiences and give advice on extra help to schools and PPT (Special Education Services), about how adults together with children can find the help that feels safe and useful.

It’s About Us (2021)

100 children aged 7 – 18 have shared experiences and advice on how contact sessions in the Child Protection System must be decided for them to feel right for children.

It was Supposed to Get Better (2020)

100 children and young people aged 15-20, with experience from receiving psychiatric medication, share experiences and give advice on how to give safe and useful help.

Safe in Class (2020)

The tools are developed in collaboration between pupils and professionals. Knowledge from children is the foundation. Contains tools for a safe and good learning environment in grades 1-10.

Understand What’s Most Important (2020)

110 children aged 6-12, with experience from the Child Protection System, share experiences and advice on how the Child Protection System has to be and what they have to do for children to be able to tell what’s most important.

Angry on the Outside, Hurting on the Inside (2020)

101 children aged 13-20 explains why children use violence, what help services, schools and the police should do for violence not to happen, and how to stop children in a safe way when they are using violence.

Give Us a Chance (2020)

105 young people, aged 14-23, share experiences and give advice on how the school can collaborate with, and give important information to, pupils who are new in Norway, about mental health in school, about how to help them learn Norwegian, and how to make it safe.

Talking Kindly (2020)

900 pupils aged 10-20, give advice on what public health nurses has to do and how they have to be in order for children and young people to talk with them about what they want to talk about

Right and Certain (2019)

130 children aged 12-19, who have been in interrogations after violence or abuse, share their experiences and give advice to the help – and legal systems about how children should be met in ways that feels safe, helpful and collaborative.

If I was Your Child: About Coercion in Mental Health Care (2019)

63 young people aged 13-21 with experience from bedpost in mental health care share experiences and give advice about coercion in mental health care

If I was Your Child: About Coercion in Residential Childcare Institutions (2019)

55 young people aged 14-20 with experience from use of coercion in residential child care institutions share experiences and give advice about coercion in residential child care institutions

Life Skills (2019)

Tools for the class LIFE, a talking-class for children and young people, where they get to practice putting feelings into words.

Wisdom about Drug Abuse (2018)

58 young people aged 15-23 who struggle or have recently struggled with illegal drugs, share experiences and give advice to schools and help services.