SARAH - Social Activities in Rural Areas for Hidden people Topic: Extending skills and knowledge of social actors working with people in rural areas in Germany, Finland, Estonia and Hungary Staff in social offers in DE, FI, HU, EST experience a lack of concrete possibilities for supporting people in rural areas. There are few services for people with multiple problems (such as social deprivation and hence social exclusion due to unemployment, mental problems, fear of the future, low economic perspectives...) We want to invite workers and volunteers in social fields, which are in contact with the people "on the other side of life", to extend their skills in searching solutions for their working area. A second main target group will be members of self-organized groups - often volunteers, who want to change the working situation but did not find a efficient strategy yet. Those actors we want to bring together with people in good practice. Staff in the field of social offers from DE, HU,EST and FI would like to start a structured exchange on information, ideas, good practice and tools how to address deprived people in order to extending their professional competences and reinforce their motivation. Therefore the four partners will each identify two good practice examples which will bepresented to the partners. In the end, the workers (volunteers and professionals) from FI, HU,EST and DE will evaluate 6 good practice examples in local context and share the results in 3 workshops (in different countries). Based on the examples the participants will develop (one or several) new working strategies to improve their motivation on support for people in disadvantaged regions. As a result the cooperation will empower the participating staff working with the clients, who are – by now – still considered to be “hidden people”all over Europe. European added value: Social engaged people in all over Europe would be able to read the project documentation, recommendation of good tools and can use strategies as impulses for their own work.
SARAH - Social Activities in Rural Areas for Hidden people Topic: Extending skills and knowledge of social actors working with people in rural areas in Germany, Finland, Estonia and Hungary Staff in social offers in DE, FI, HU, EST experienced a lack of concrete possibilities for supporting people in rural areas. There are few services for people with multiple problems (such as social deprivation and hence social exclusion due to unemployment, mental problems, fear of the future, low economic perspectives...). We wanted to invite workers and volunteers in social fields, which are in contact with the people "on the other side of life", to extend their skills in searching solutions for their working area. A second main target group were the members of self-organized groups - often volunteers, who want to change the working situation but did not find an efficient strategy yet. Those actors we brought together with people in good practice. Staff in the field of social offers from DE, HU, EST and FI started a structured exchange on information, ideas, good practice and tools how to address deprived people in order to extend their professional competences and reinforce their motivation. Therefore, the four partners each identified two good practice examples which were presented to the partners. In the end, the workers (volunteers and professionals) from FI, HU, EST and DE evaluated 6 good practice examples in local context and shared the results in 3 workshops (in different countries). Based on the examples the participants developed (one or several) new working strategies to improve their motivation on support for people in disadvantaged regions. As a result, the cooperation empowered the participating staff working with the clients, who are – by now – still considered to be “hidden people” all over Europe. European added value: Social engaged people in all over Europe are able to read the project documentation, recommendation of good tools and can use strategies as impulses for their own work.