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Accredited project in the field of youth

2022-1-SI02-KA151-YOU-0000628782022Mobility of young people for accredited organisationsfinalized
Countries: SI · Grant: €27,777

Objectives

The general goals of the project were to provide to young people an international opportunity for to acquire new competences, knowledge, and skills, to acquire new knowledge, skills and good practices for youth workers and thereby increase the quality of youth work, to strengthen the network of partners for international projects and to increase the visibility of European Union programs, especially Erasmus plus, in the local environment. The project consisted of three activities, each with its own specific goals, depending on the topic and type of activity. Training course Supporting Youngsters with Autism in Youth Work: Relationships and social interactions was the third training on the topic of supporting young people with autism, organized by the Center za mlade Domžale in cooperation with ASPI Association. Main goals were to explore different relationships and how to address these topics with different groups of young people, including young people with autism. We specifically focused on relationship topics of friends, family, and partnership. In terms of relationship dynamics, we also addressed the topics of emotions, behaviours, and interactions. During the project participants worked directly with youngsters with autism, users of Association ASPI. We prepared tools (cards) that will help youth workers and other to use them to address the topic of relations with group of youngsters. Relationships and social interactions are topics is interesting for all young people, but especially relevant for young people with autism. The aim of the training course is to equip participants with skills to develop methods on this topic, appropriate to use with different groups of young people, including young people with autism, as this group is confronting the biggest challenges in this area. Objectives of the training were: • receive expert input on the topics of relationships, emotions, and working with different groups of young people in non-formal contexts; • experience working directly with young people with autism and cooperating with them as members of the group; • develop concrete methods for addressing the topic of relationships and social interactions with young people, including young people with autism. • create a cards on which these methods are collected and disseminate them among participating organizations, participants and in interested communities (youth workers, professionals who work with young people with autism...) • encourage the integration and mutual cooperation of young people with autism and other young people and thereby strengthen mutual understanding, familiarity and successful communication, development of relationships. Youth exchange ''Future in your hands'' or ''Prihodnost je v tvojih rokah'' was prepared by a group of young people. Most of them were at the beginning of their career path or were in the process of deciding what would they like to do in life. The most important goal of the youth exchange was to encourage participants to start seriously thinking about their future, their careers, how they can set their goals, reach them and how they can implement their interests, talents and hobbies in their professional paths. The objectives of the exchange were: - encourage youth to start thinking about their future, - get to know the ways when and how they can set their goals they want to achieve, - figure out when and how they can achieve it, - think about the possibilities they have, and which will allow them to implement their interests, talents and hobbies in their future professions. - strengthening self-awareness about one's own competences and skills and, as a result, greater self-awareness when planning future professional path, - get to know different cultures, strengthening tolerance and strengthening the skill of working in diverse groups, - strengthen organizational skills by preparing workshops for the youth exchange PBA: With the activity we wanted to build up the international web of organisations, get the partners for upcoming projects, promote E+ international opportunities in local and international field, strengthening of foreign language competences. Main goals of the activity were: • Participants gather new knowledge, good practices and upgrade their competences with common goal to enhance quality of youth work. • Participants get to know different approaches to youth street work, main challenges of youth, youth organisations, financing of youth field on local, state and international level. • Establish and strengthen international partnerships. • Strengthen cooperation of different organisations. • Greater recognition of E+ programme among youth workers. • Getting familiar with good practices in active youth participation and youth street work.

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