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Youth in risk

2020-1-PL01-KA105-0797922020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: PL|BG|PT|EL|IT|ES · Grant: €14,833
Social/environmental responsibility of educational institutionsInclusion - equityPedagogy and didactics

Objectives

The project was to contribute to building cooperation between organizations from 6 countries that work with young people with fewer opportunities. Social studies show that there has been a disturbing increase in young people who experiment or use harmful psychoactive substances, including so-called power ups, new modern psychoactive substances. The main aims of the project were to contribute to building a new cooperation network, which would be based on mutual learning, exchange of experiences and good practices in the field of addiction prevention and intervention. Another one was increasing the competences of staff, in particular youth workers, due to the space to share new tools, working methods or techniques. Addiction issues, from the basics of positive and selective prevention, work with young people taking into account their development needs, using techniques based on motivating dialogue and diagnosis of the life situation, to harm reduction, made it possible to improve the resources of human resources working with young people. The program of classes assumed the discussion and training of work techniques in relation to each age level (e.g. universal and positive prevention at the early school stage) and the stage of addiction (from experimenting to creating an addiction syndrome according to the classification ICD-10). Another aim was to work on additional measures to compensate for losses resulting from addiction or risky use of psychoactive substances The entire training program was aimed at achieving better results in working with marginalized youth would show into reducing the number of adolescents and young adults, eg in the area of ​​leaving the education system and demoralization. The area of ​​disseminating new tools and good practices in the national and local environment (through an e-publication on working with young people undertaking risky behaviors) was also anti-discriminatory work and combating stereotypes related to youth in crisis. Specialists also gained new coaching skills by actively conducting workshops as experts in a given field, strengthened by feedback on strengths and areas for improvement through daily evaluation of classes and the entire training. The project was aimed at: 1. Development of international cooperation for youth, education and a healthy lifestyle and prevention social exclusion (including, inter alia, early school leaving). 2. Expanding the potential of organizations working for young people through the improvement of staff and getting to know them new working methods. 3. Creating a better offer and improving the quality of work of the cards working in the area of youth at risk social exclusion, experimenting with psychoactive substances. 4. Exchange and dissemination of good practices in the prevention and intervention of addictions. 5. Implementation of the knowledge and skills acquired by the participants in the daily work with youth and disseminating new and improved work tools in the local and national environment.

Project partners (6)