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Crisis Situations Management and Risk Assessment for Youth

2020-3-TR01-KA105-0968382020Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: TR|SE|RS|MK|FR|BG|DK|PL · Grant: €20,371
Inclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The project entitled ‘Crisis Situations Management and Risk Assessment for Youth’ was implemented with the main goal to advance the competences of youth workers to effectively deal with emergency and crisis situations with special focus to the emergency and crisis situations that might appear during youth activities at local, or international level. By addressing this goal, the project aimed to contribute to increasing the quality of youth activities and ensuring that young people, including young people with fewer opportunities, work in a safe and supportive environment. Moreover, by this project we aimed to prepare youth workers for various situations that might appear during their activities and to develop their competencies to adequately respond to them. Concretely, the project ‘Crisis Situations Management and Risk Assessment for Youth’ was implemented to reach following objectives: -to raise understanding and knowledge of the participants on risk and safety issues in youth projects; -to address the role of youth workers in their communities during challenging times; -to compare policies and practices of participating organizations in the field of risk management, response to crises, the role of youth organizations in their communities during challenging times; -to develop competencies of the participants to manage risks and emergency situation e.g. problem-solving skills, conflict management competencies; -to create guideline in form of ‘checklist’ for youth organizations organizing international youth projects to increase capacities of youth organizations to realize quality projects in a safe and supportive environment; -to create guidelines in form of ‘checklist’ for youth organizations to increase their capacities to support their communities during challenging times with the main aim to prevent social exclusion and discrimination of the most vulnerable groups; -to increase knowledge of the participants on the Erasmus + Programme and to support creating new projects at local, national, and international levels.

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