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The organisation and practice of local youth work needs…

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to counsel and give young people access to a wide range of adapted information regarding their rights as well as their possibilities to take part in different kinds of local, national and international activities.

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Introduction

It is through spreading information that we can widen young people’s horizons and make them aware of their rights and possibilities. Internet has made it much easier to both spread and have access to information. This will, however, only benefit young people if they know that the information actually exists, and knows where to look for it. Providing information is therefore a central task for youth work, especially in relation to those young people that are living in deprived areas and/or are not exposed to this kind of information in other ways.

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Guiding questions

To what degree does our local youth work meet this bullet point?

Are there sides/aspects of it that are not reached?
Are there differences related to different activities?
Are there differences related to different groups of young people?
Are there differences related to different youth work providers?
Are there other differences? Related to what?

Specific questions
  • How do we improve our routines for gathering information from other actors in the youth field?
  • How do we improve our routines for spreading information to young people, securing that we reach does most in need?
  • How do we design our information so that it reaches and is attractive to different groups of young people? How do we make various groups of young people, e.g. young migrants, feel that they are part of our target group?
  • Do we inform young people that don’t already participate about our activities?
    • If no, why are we not doing this?
  • Are we so busy running our own activities that we don’t inform the young people that we meet about other opportunities?
    • Are we afraid to ‘lose’ young people if we inform them about other opportunities?

Self-assessment

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Good practices & tools

  • Regional government and cities together for youth

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  • Guidelines: How to implement open youthwork in municipalities and cities (in German)

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Future steps

What different steps do we need to take in order to meet this bullet point?

Do we miss any knowledge that we need?
Do we need to take contact with stakeholders not present in our discussions?
Do we need to develop new competences, methods, work processes or organisational structures?
Can we find good practices or tools that might help us to improve this?
Do we have positive experiences from other areas of youth work that we can use also in this case?
Are there other organisations that we can contact and learn from regarding this?
Do we need to take other measures?
Do we have to revise our perspectives and/or priorities regarding youth work?

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