Understand youth unemployment and learn to use Youth in Action projects as tools to support the access of young people with fewer opportunities to the labour market. (2010 update) Click on image to download "Young people have profited less from inclusion and active labour market policies than other age groups" The Renewed Social Agenda, Thematic Study on Policy Measures concerning Disadvantaged Youth, 2005; KoK Report 2004. At the same time, it is a generally acknowledged trend that the rate of youth unemployment is mostly higher than the adult unemployment rate and tends to vary more in response to variations in economic conditions, increasing more in recessions and recovering more quickly during booms. Hence the explosive rise in youth unemployment in the economic context of some past years in Europe is not a surprise, with youth unemployment having reached almost 30-40% in some European countries. Unemployment is a complex, social phenomenon and efforts towards combating it require a well-planned strategic approach, combining integrated policy measures with effective practices. There exist many inspiring practices in different European countries, and together with some theoretical elaborations on the issue, this publication also takes a look at these. While it is evident that a lot has already been done to work on unemployment among young people, unfortunately there is yet no need to be afraid of being "out-of-work" in that area. So what is your next step in the work on youth unemployment? This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/.
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Make most out of your youth (in action) project. Making Waves takes you on a journey of raising the visibility of your project and it helps you to get your project results out to the people. With lots of practical tips and tricks to get you started. Make Waves - Have Impact! (2010 Update) Click on image to download Are you one of the thousands of youth project organisers in Europe? Trying to make a little change with the youth work you do? Maybe you want to have some bigger impact? It only takes a little bit more effort and strategic thinking! Your youth project is like a stone thrown in the water: it creates some ripples or waves on the water, your youth work intends to have some impact. This booklet helps you think and plan how you can make the biggest possible waves with your project. Be proud of your work! 'Making Waves' gives you some practical suggestions to increase the visibility your project. The more people know about your work, the better. Surely your project generates some wonderful results or products: new methods, a CD-rom, learning, a theatre-play, recommendations to decision-makers,... Don't sit on your project results - share them with others! 'Making Waves' lists some tips and tricks about you to disseminate your results. But it would even be better if your project results were actually also USED. 'Making Waves' guides you through the exploitation of your project results. Visibility, dissemination and exploitation of results (sometimes called 'valorisation') are important features of the Youth in Action programme. SALTO-YOUTH pro-actively took up its 'support role' within the YiA programme and developed this practical publication for youth workers faced with these visibility, dissemination and exploitation requests in their projects. 'Making Waves' hopes to give you inspiration about how to make the most out of your project and create the best waves possible! Learn to build a positive image for the youngsters with fewer opportunities by using (international) youth projects. A booklet full of tips on campaigning and marketing. (2010) Click on image to download Unfortunately, quite a lot of people actually have the prejudices about inclusion groups. This takes away the opportunities of the young people without even giving them a chance. The inclusion groups that youth workers deal with in their organisations often don't have a good reputation. SALTO Inclusion hopes this booklet inspires youth workers accross Europe to create greater acceptance of people who are different, to build a better image for them amongst the general public. Combating these negative images is part of youth and inclusion work. This booklet aims to give youth workers practical tools and tips to improve the image of their target group. This way, they create greater acceptance of the young people in question, which will contribute to their inclusion in society. At the same time, the young people's self-image will be strengthened. Find new ideas on ...How images, stereotypes and prejudice function. Where do they come from and how to influence them in a positive way. How to plan an image-building campaign Common campaign tactics, such as: public actions & events, lobbying & advocacy, media & image-building Inspiration for your campaign from the business world: branding & corporate identity, advertising How to involve the young people from your organisation in your image-building campaign. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Practical tips and guidelines for inclusion youth workers who are tempted to take young people with fewer opportunities (socio-economic disadvantage) abroad for the first time. (2009 Update) Click on image to download Are you a youth worker? Working with young people with fewer opportunities, socially excluded for whatever reason? Are you planning to run an international youth activity but feel your experience is not that wide? Then the "Going International - Opportunities for all!" booklet is for you! At various meetings with Inclusion workers (youth workers working with young people with special needs) and National Agencies, SALTO-Inclusion perceived the need to have a practical publication with concrete ready-to-use methods for youth workers who are on an international project with young people with fewer opportunities: practical hints, tools and methods that can contribute to the quality of the inclusion project. The aim of the "Going International" booklet is to document good practices & concrete working methods in international inclusion projects. It is a practical booklet with useful methods for youth workers taking young people with fewer opportunities on international projects. This way, we hope that inclusion youth workers, with little international experience will have it easier to start or carry out successful international youth activities with their target group. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. The "Going International" booklet aims to be to the point (well indexed, short but clear), easy to read (pleasant layout and visual appearance, easy to find parts), easy to carry (not too many pages, smallish size),easy to reproduce (electronic pdf format for print-out, photocopy version) The "Going International" booklet offers to youth workers easy access to methods which deal with concrete situations that the youth worker might face when organising an international youth activity with young people with special needs. "Going International" contains tips, practical guidelines, concrete methods for including young people with fewer opportunities in an international project, such as in the preparation, travel, the intercultural dimension, meeting other people, etc… Discover alternative educational pathways through EVS for young people with fewer opportunities. Set up more relevant task-sets outside the 'traditional' socio-cultural sector... (2009 Update) Click on image to download Setting up Short Term EVS projects with young people with special needs is not all that easy and demands a clear commitment of all actors involved, especially from the young volunteer. Therefore SALTO Inclusion decided to focus on the support for this action and develop an educational publication which helps organisations to provide an EVS project that the young person really wants! "Use Your Hands To Move Ahead" booklet promotes and stimulates aninnovative educational approach to use ST-EVS as a personal pathway for the youngster with fewer opportunities. "Use Your Hands To Move Ahead" describes the educational pathway of ST-EVS projects for young people with less opportunity with a focus on aspecific task-set. The task-set is linked with work in the construction sector, gardening, restaurant, boat building, carpentry, sports, etc. This means that the educational value (learning skills and competences) for the youngster is to be found in the other elements of the project in its whole and not the specific task-set itself: the intercultural learning aspect, learning social skills, work attitude... "Use Your Hands To Move Ahead" diversifies the possibilities within Short Term-EVS and brings the concept of this action closer to the specific needs of the youngster itself. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. A practical manual with lots of activities that stimulate your (international) youth work to be more inclusive and reach a more diverse target group. Give it a try. (2008 Update). Click on image to download Are you involved in international Youth work? Do you want to make your youth work more inclusive and open to diversity? Want some practical tools and methods? Are you interested in reading more about identity, perception, difference, exclusion, participation and people wearing goggles to play football? Then this booklet could help you..... Two SALTO Resource Centres worked together to organise four training modules about Inclusion and Diversity. Most of the content, learning and 'best tips' of the modules have been squeezed into these pages to help you with your international projects and your youth work, to make themmore inclusive and to work with more diverse target groups. We hope the IDeas will give you inspiration and new directions for the future. Go on, you're holding it already, why not give it a read? - You just might learn something new.... This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Find out how you can set up international mixed-ability projects, in which young people with and without a disability have a meaningful and fun experience together. (2008 Update) Click on image to download There are approximately 15% of people with a disability in Europe. So we could ask ourselves if also 15% of our friends have a disability, or 15% of our colleagues at work, or 15% of the young persons in our youth organisation. No Barriers, No Borders is a practical booklet aiming to stimulate the participation of young people with a disability in international youth projects. It is not about setting up specific projects for people with a disability, but it promotes International Mixed-Ability projects, in which young people with and without a disability live, work and have fun together as peers. No Barriers, No Borders helps mainstream youth workers and project organisers to think more inclusively and to involve young people with disabilities in their international projects. The booklet gives lots of practical tips and tricks to make a Mixed-Ability Project a positive and mind-changing experience for all involved. f you are a youth worker (mainly) working with young people with disabilities, this booklet wants to challenge you to involve young people without disabilities in your activities. Because social inclusion is about creating opportunities for pleasant and respectful contact and cooperation. And an international mixed-ability youth project does just that! This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Find out how to set up international projects with young lesbians, gay guys and bisexual youth, or those questioning their sexual orientation. (2008 Update). Click on image to download A rainbow consists of many different colours, as does the diversity amongst lesbian, gay and bisexual youth. Surely you find sparkles of this rainbow in your youth organisation as well. This booklet is about how to work with LesBiGay youth in a respectful and helpful way. urthermore, Over the Rainbow is a booklet about how to set up international youth projects that involve LesBiGay youth. International projects can be very beneficial not only for young people's personal development, but also for creating a more accepting society of this invisible (hiding?) minority that is LesBiGay youth. Over the Rainbow is a practical booklet with a range of questions and answers that can help you take the jump from national to international youth projects. It includes information on finding partner organisations, project funding and tips and tricks on how to deal with specific LesBiGay issues that arise on a project abroad. And if you don't find what you are looking for in this booklet, perhaps one of the links or references surely will get you on the right track. So, are you ready to take a look Over the Rainbow? This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Discover how to set up international youth projects with young offenders, ex-offenders and young people at risk of offending or currently in prison. Everybody gets a second chance, No Offence! (2010 update) Click on image to download The target group described in this booklet are: young offenders and ex-offenders and those young people at risk of offending. A group which you will not find represented a lot in international projects and more specifically in the Youth in Action programme. There are many reasons for this. An obvious one is that the travelling possibilities for young people in prison are limited. Another one is that people working with this target-group have considerable doubts about if it's really possible to send this kind of young people on a European Voluntary Service-project to another country or to take a group of them on a Youth Exchange. A third reason could be that people simply don't know about the opportunities that the Youth in Action programme offers. The main reason for this booklet is that many projects done over the past years with this target-group have turned out to be successful. They not only showed that projects are very well possible with this group but they also made clear that the young people participating in these international projects profited to a great extend from these experiences. The impact of the projects often had a very positive influence on the lives of these young people. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Learn how to set up international projects in rural and geographically disadvantaged areas. With information on where to find partners, money, ideas - and how to overcome challenges. (2010 Update). Click on image to download Half of the European Union's population lives in rural and geographically isolated areas... and still rural young people don't find their way to European youth projects. 'Village International' is a booklet for rural youth workers and youth leaders, about how to set up international youth projects, for and with rural youngsters, in geographically remote and disadvantaged areas. 'Village International' shows you that it's worth to embark on an international adventure, and enjoy the benefits of international projects: for the young people, for your organisation, for the community and for yourself. 'Village International' gives you an overview of where and how to start organising your international rural youth project. You will find information on finding partners, on project funding and tips and tricks from experienced rural youth workers on how to address specific challenges when setting up your international activity. We hope this booklet will give you inspiration to bring an international dimension to your rural youth work and to make your Village a bit more International. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. |