The purpose of the project Do you hear me? I hear you is to develop and explore support mechanisms to work with young people with fewer opportunities experiencing distress and to create a system of education for volunteers and youth workers within the day centers The objectives of the project are: - Organize a study visit for 12 youth workers by ecperiencing good practices in working with youth in distress - Carry out a training for youth workers on the theme of "self care" - moderating the youth workers before work with the young in distress - Develop 10 new tools for support mechanisms for working with young people in distress - Explore at least 15 existing tools that already exist for working with young people in distress and adapt them to the specific work in day care centers - Develop 4-day educational module for volunteers and youth workers, where through volunteer activities, volunteers and new youth workers will be empowered to work with young people in distress and will be tested with 20 youth workers - Design a protocol for working with young people in distress - Organize at least 3 dissemination multiplicative events for 150 youth workers Intellectual outputs to be developed as part of a strategic partnership Do you hear me? I hear you: IO 1: A curriculum for 4 day training for working with young people in distress IO 2: The manual for youth workers, dedicated to working with young people in distress IO 3: Protocol (first aid for youth workers) to work with young people in distress The project consists of 3 training activities (1 study visit in Finland, where we will get acquainted with good practices and 2 trainings, 1st training will be dedicated to youth workers and how to prepare for work, dealing with young people with fewer opportunities, while the second one will have the objective to testing the curriculum of education, who will be ready to work with young people in distress). The partners will meet at 3 transnational project meetings. At the introductory one, where they will split the work, second one, that will serve as an interim evaluation, which will be aimed at reviewing the progress of intellectual results and the design of the project to the end, and at the final evaluation of the project, where the entire process will be evaluated. The project will contribute to the development of the quality of youth work, address the youth's goal of mental health, and empower youth workers for more responsible work with young people in distress, and put the organization and its partners on a map of relevant stakeholders in working with youth in distress.
Our main objective was to develop supporting mechanisms for youth workers, youth leaders and experienced volunteers who work with young people in distress. We achieved it through development of 3 main results of the project: booklet, protocol and curriculum for working with young people in distress. We also wanted to empower youth workers, find and present good practices already existing for working with youth in distress and also adapt tools for our way of working. Our objective was (and still is) to share the results we created with others who connect with the needs we are addressing, therefore we organized dissemination events, we published the results on Erasmus+ platform and our organizations’ website and we are inviting everyone interested in hearing more about our project and results to contact us at [email protected].
The project 'Do you hear me? I hear you' was created due to the needs of youth workers who work with young people in distress and do not know how to react when a young person opens up about their (sometimes very serious) problems. In the Youth Center Zagorje we have had a Daily center opened every Friday afternoon for several years now, where young people have the opportunity to socialize, talk to youth workers and do activities that we come up with together with youth on the spot. With this project we addressed specific needs of youth workers, such as: how and when to set a limit when working with young people in need, what is the role of youth workers (mainly in Daily centres), which tools/methods are suitable for working with young people in distress.