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Crisis Management in Volunteering Work

2019-3-AT02-KA105-0025862019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: AT|UA|BY|SI|DE|BE|TR|FI|HU|ES · Grant: €6,409.7
Quality Improvement Institutions and/or methods (incl. school development)Inclusion - equityHealth and wellbeing

Objectives

Crisis Management in Volunteering Work Venue: Vienna, Austria: 07.09 – 11.09.2020 (Seminar with participants from Zavod ODTIZ, CBB, IJGD and Grenzenlos) Venue: online: 12.11. – 13.11.2020 (Seminar with participants from Zavod Oditz, Allianssi, IBG, LYVS, Egyesek, Union Forum, CBB, PIAT, ijgd and Grenzenlos) Organizer: Grenzenlos – interkultureller Austausch Partners involved: Zavod ODTIZ Slovenia, Allianssi Finnland, IBG Germany, LYVS Belarus, Egyesek Hungary, Union Forum Ukraine, CBB Belgium, Pi Youth Association Turkey, and IJGD Germany. Extra Partners Involved in the online training: ICYE Kenya, CIVS International, VWAN Nigeria Grenzenlos is running international projects and exchanges for 70 years. In the last years we dedicated our trainings to the topics of civil courage, human rights, and peace-work. One of the most recurrent topics in the last years has been the need for a better preparation and support for our staff and the participants themselves whenever there is the need for crisis interventions. For this reason, Grenzenlos wanted to share more operational knowledge in dealing with volunteers and partners whenever we were having a crisis. For this reason, we prepared a Seminar that had the next aims and objective: On a personal level: + To encourage the development of self-awareness. What and where are my limits? On an Organisational Level: + To promote discuss how different organisations prepare their staff and volunteers in crisis management. + To share the best practices and lessons learnt on how to deal with crisis innervations. + To give participants and youth organisations involved in international voluntary projects tools to manage different crisis. + To encourage and support organisations to be ready to host and send volunteers with psychological difficulties and like this make volunteering more inclusive. + To focus on prevention measures that ensure young people are equipped with the knowledge and the skills required for better mental wellbeing. + To create a booklet on how to prepare, support and do follow-up in crisis management during volunteering work As always, Grenzenlos had an inclusion focus within the project. Therefore, this seminar was accessible for participants with physical disabilities. One of the biggest changes with this seminar, was its need to be a blended one. This allowed us to reach more people with and without disabilities that were interested on the topic.

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