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Formación de Formadores en Herramientas ARTísticas para Trabajadores Juveniles

2023-1-ES02-KA153-YOU-0001417652023Mobility of youth workersfinalized
Countries: ES|PT|TR|DE|HR|EE|MK|HU|SI|FR · Grant: €22,046
Creativity, arts and cultureInclusion of marginalised young peoplePrevention of conflicts, post-conflict rehabilitation

Objectives

When young people are given opportunity to experiment with a range of art forms self-esteem, together with individual and societal wellbeing, can be enhanced. When such artistic and cultural activities take place in a community rather than a formal education setting there is very considerable potential to build local social networks. Social capital not only improves local relationships for the individual young people participating but also benefits the local area more widely. It is therefore critical that we do everything we can to unleash the full creative and artistic potential of our young people. Not surprisingly, given the centrality of self-discovery and self-expression to artistic practice, research also finds that community youth arts programs help young people develop self-confidence, self-efficacy, and self-awareness ; and the ability to self-regulate and express emotions. Therefore, there is a need to qualify the youth workers to increase the young people's skills through the art and promote their well-being while making them more included and welcomed in the community. Communities with under-served and at-risk youth will very often have the least resources to provide quality art programmes, yet studies show that these youth are the most likely to benefit from exposure to the arts. A 2012 study, ‘The Arts and Achievement in At-Risk Youth: Findings from Four Longitudinal Studies’, shows that teenagers and young adults of low socio-economic status, who are involved in youth arts activities, are more civically engaged, have better academic results, higher career goals, and better work opportunities.Therefore, making the art a reality of every youth and boost their creativity will increase their participation and involvement to the society. This project benefited from the outputs of our two projects : ARTivistic : Artistic Approaches to Solidarity, Inclusion and Creativity in Europe that we have finalised in 2022 and Inclusive Photography for Youth – Tools for Youth Workers to Engage Young People with Photography that we have started to run this year. In addition to that "El Acto Creativo" and "Dibujando Realidades" Local Solidarity Projects have been the main starting point of this training course to increase the capacities of the organisations about the usage of art which we have the expertise on. During these projects, we have created handbooks and tools that can benefit the youth workers to create art activities for the young people in their own communities. There have been several studies that boosting creativity increases the active citizenship and inclusion of the young people who are at risk of marginalisation. However, the NGOs working in the field of youth have less skills or do not have any tools to promote the artistic approaches within their work. Therefore, the project increased the capacities of youth organisations while involving both art and youth organisations to its process. In addition to that, Artistic approaches gave opportunity to young people to claim their spaces and increases their participation to social life through the usage of artistic tools from theatre to plastic arts, from photography to videography. Due to our previous experiences with this approaches, we have built this training course to promote the artistic approaches in youth field to deal with the inclusion,active citizenship and social peace aspects. Therefore, the project was highly related as well with the European Youth Goals concerning the Goal "Space and Participation for All" by providing a safe space to boost the creativity of young people in their own communities. During the project, participants gained a knowledge about the following aspects during this training course : • A brief introduction of usage of artistic tools in youth work • Understanding Art in Youth Work practice • Creating Art-based educational programs • Usage of Photography and Art Tools for Inclusion and Promoting Participation of Young People The objectives of the project were; -To create awareness on the usage of artistic tools for increasing the participation and involvement of young people to community -To qualify the youth workers on how to develop art-based youth empowerment programs -To increase the attractiveness of the participating organisations by making them able to offer art-based social programmes for the individuals -To develop partnerships in the field of youth work

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