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Empowerment of young people with difficulties
Empowerment of young people with difficulties
Start date: Mar 1, 2016,
End date: May 31, 2016
PROJECT
FINISHED
This project is designed to facilitate the exchange of good practices between professionals and volunteers who work with young people with difficulties and the acquisition of new tools to achieve their empowerment through, inter alia, online communication and involvement of young people.It is designed to 24 participants (4 of each partner organization) working in the field of youth, empowerment, social inclusion, young people with special needs, volunteering, etc. and those who are workers or volunteers from social organizations. FRRA will ensure that all of them are over 18 years old and that there is a balance between men and women within the group, whenever possible.Participants have experience in different methodologies of empowerment and social inclusion or volunteering but all of them have the same needs to improve their professional skills and the quality of their work and activities for young people with difficulties, to exchange and gain innovative methodologies to apply them with youth in their communities.Main goals:• Supporting the professional development of people who work in the field of training and youth with a view to innovate and improve the quality of their work.• To increase the participants' awareness and understanding of other cultures and countries, offering the possibility of building international networks. It is intended to facilitate the contact, exchange of best practices between organizations from different countries and the launch of new quality initiatives in the field of youth.•To increase the capacities, attractiveness and the international dimension of the participating organizations. A better understanding of the possibility of projects within the Erasmus + program will increase its capacity to undertake more initiatives at European level and better quality partnerships in the fields of social inclusion of young people and youth volunteerism.• To ensure a better recognition of skills acquired during periods of learning abroad (Youthpass).Seminar activities :- Exchange of good practices: The participants may share and exchange their experience in different ways of empowerment of youth with difficulties such as: on-line communication, mutual aid groups, coaching, art, vocational training, etc. In addition, they will exchange good practices about youth volunteerism.-Visit to FRRA resources: They will visit two centers where empowerment activities with young people with difficulties are carried out and where volunteers, both local and EVS, collaborate.- Information panel: Sharing of cases of different methodologies to empower young people in risk of exclusion. Thus, it will be ensured the exchange about the reality, objectives and interests of each entity in order to reflect about potencial future projects together.-Work Group: some sessions of the seminar will be to develop new tools for empowerment and to reflect on the possibility of carrying out a project within the Erasmus + Program, a strategic partnership (KA2) among all partner organizations.-Self-assessment: Reflexion (in gruop and individual) about the learning outcomes adquired in order to facilitate the process of acquiring the certificate Youthpass.-Tour around the city of Zaragoza and an intercultural dinner in order to ensure the awareness of other cultures.This project is aimed to solving the needs that social entities have, to acquire innovative methodologies and improve the skills of their workers and volunteers in providing services to young people with difficulties, as well as youth voluntary activities, involving more young people into the social reality of their communities. The seminar is designed to facilitate the exchange of good practices and the acquisition of new tools between youth workers and volunteers of participating entities that they may apply to the young people of their organizations in order to enhance empowerment activities and social participation, increasing both their quality of life and their relatives, facilitating their personal and labour development.The expected long-term impact is the increase of new activities within the partner organizations related to online communication and others to empower youth. In addition, to increase involvement of young people in each of the organization; awareness at European level of the benefits of ways such as the online communication or the art with youth at risk of exclusion and increasing of networking of European organizations to undertake new initiatives in this area.