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The organisation and practice of local youth work needs…

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to stimulate and support young people to meet over all kinds of barriers and borders in order to socialise, exchange experiences and ideas, organise, learn from each other and take action.

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Introduction

Personal and social development is closely linked to meeting people with other backgrounds and ideas than your own. Through meeting others, you broaden your horizons and get to understand not only others, but also yourself, better. The active inclusion of different groups into youth work is therefore beneficial for everybody involved.

References

  • Embracing diversity. An introduction to diversity management in youth work.
    SALTO-Youth inclusion resource center, 2017

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 can we further stimulate meetings and common projects between different groups of young people?
    • Can we, for example, visit youth centres/projects/groups in other areas as a method for creating fruitful meetings?
  • Is the group of young people we work with homogeneous (ethnically, socioeconomically, etc.)?
    • If so, why is this the case?
    • What consequences might it have?
    • What do we need to do in order to have a more diverse group of young people as participants?
  • Are we as youth workers most comfortable when working with young people with the same background as ourselves?
    • If so, why is the underlying reason for this?

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Good practices & tools

  • “Spoza brány k politikom” – From behind the gate to politicians

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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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