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Emocinė parama - kaip savanoriai gali prisidėti prie savižudybių prevencijos
Start date: Aug 4, 2014, End date: Dec 4, 2014 PROJECT  FINISHED 

Youth Line (Applicant organization) provides voluntary emotional support by phone and internet for young people. Youth Line helps to reduce the number of youg people suicides in Lithuania. Currently, Youth Line can answer to just 1 out of 10 calls. For this reason, they are increasing the number of volunteers. However, Youth Line have never had such high number volunteers working in one branch. There is a need to implement a new system of volunteers work coordination, to ensure appropriate motivation of volunteers and quality of their work. Livslinien (Partner organization) also provides emotional support by phone and internet. This organization has a much higher number of volunteers working in one branch, so they are applying a different system for coordination of voluntaries work. Youth Line is planning to apply similar system in their work. Futhermore, Livslinien wants to prolong working hours of their voluntaries. For this they need to do changes in their voluntary coordination and motivation system. Youth Line already has this experience and knowledge. Aims of the project: 1) To increase capabilities of organizations to implement needed changes in their activities; 2) To increase the competencies, knowledge of their staff; 3) To motivate staff in their daily work. 5 employees of Youth Line and 5 emloyees of Livslinien will participate in this project. All participating employees are responsible for voluntary work, trainings or voluntary work quality. The main activity of the project - two days seminar. During this seminar there will be analyzed prepared questions of organizations employees about the needed change in their work. Also, there will be a discussion in order to find suitable solutions for the needs of both organizations. Methods, that will be applied: presentation of prepared material, work in groups and discussion. Project will help for participant to increase their knowledge, understanding and will motivate them to implement new changes in their organizations. Organizatons will be prepared better for needed changes, will increase the quality of voluntary coordination. In long term it will allow for both organizations to encrease the accessibility of emotional support and it will allow to decrease the number of young people suicides in Lithuania and Denmark.
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