Discover how to set up international youth projects in disadvantaged (sub)urban areas. With information on where to find partners, money, ideas - and how to overcome challenges (2012 update). Click on image to download Youth gangs are killing each other in London, teenagers are burning cars in Paris, shops in Birmingham are looted, youth protestors are battered by police in Warsaw, young people take to the streets of Madrid, Greece has 50% youth unemployment,... Life does not seem all that positive in disadvantaged (sub)urban areas. That's why youth workers, street workers and social workers are all the more important in creating some alternatives for young people in the cities. Why not try an international youth project? It opens up young people's worlds and helps them put things into perspective. Life in the city isn't that bad after all! "Youth and the City" is a practical manual for youth workers about setting up meaningful international youth projects with young people in those disadvantaged (sub)urban areas. This booklet is about giving young people positive opportunities in the city area. "Youth and the City" gives you suggestions and tips for motivating your group, finding partner-groups abroad, raising funds for your urban project, working with the local community, encouraging participation and intercultural learning, avoiding things going wrong and lots more. We hope this booklet will give you inspiration to bring an international dimension to your urban youth work and to create life-changing opportunities for the young people you work with. 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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Find out how to empower young ethnic minority women - in an international youth project. With information on specific methods and theories on empowering these girls - and how to overcome challenges. Click on image to download E.M.power young women from ethnic minorities "There is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women." - Kofi Annan The empowerment of women, and more specifically the empowerment of young ethnic minority women, takes us one step further in SALTO's advocacy role for young people with fewer opportunities. Examples of good (Youth in Action) practice demonstrate that young ethnic minority women benefit extremely well from the educational frame offered by the Youth in Action programme with many projects linkingempowerment as a process with emancipation as their final aim. Yet young ethnic minority women remain a group which is often invisible or underrepresented in international training courses, seminars and events. Empowered people have freedom of choice and action. This in turn enables them to better influence the course of their lives and the decisions which affect them. In order to give the opportunity to ethnic minority young women toempower themselves, as a group and as an individual, this specific target group needs specific support and methods. The Youth in Action programme is an excellent tool in order to reach this aim. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Find lots of advice, tips and methods from and for youth workers who want to use Youthpass with and for young people with fewer opportunities. (2013 update). Click on image to download Youthpass offers young people, youth workers and youth leaders an exciting new way to recognise, understand, document and demonstrate the learning that takes place within Youth in Action activities. Early experience with this tool has shown that while Youthpass offers tremendous potential, it is not always easy to implement. Some young people, and particularly those from fewer-opportunity backgrounds, may not have the experience, maturity or cognitive skills needed to recognise or understand their own learning processes. These young people need extra support in the Youthpass process... But how, specifically, can this be done? "YouthPass for All" provides some initial answers. This booklet is ia companion to The Youthpass Guide and is aimed specifically at youth workers and/or youth leaders who use European youth activities as part of their work with fewer-opportunity young people. "YouthPass for All" presents advice, tips and methods from youth workers who have used Youthpass "in the field". The booklet then goes on to examine how the process of looking at learning outcomes can be expanded beyond Youthpass into a more comprehensive competence-based approach to youth work. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Explore ways in which sports can be used as an educational method in the work with young people with fewer opportunities. With many practical tips and examples. (2006 Reprint) Click on image to download Why Sport?Sport is a lot more than just physical activity. While sport can help young people develop healthy lifestyles it can also teach valuable life skills and help with an individual's personal development process. This is especially true for young people with fewer opportunities. Sport methods and outdoor activities can help youngsters in this target group to develop a wide range of social skills. In this way sport helps these young people become much more than fit - it can help make them truly "Fit for Life". Fit for LifeThe Fit for Life booklet is based on the outcomes of the SALTO "Inclusion through Sport" training courses (2004). This practical booklet aims to inform youth workers, youth leaders and European institutions of thevalue of sport as an educational tool for the fewer opportunity target group. The theory behind using sport as a method is made concrete throughreal-life examples. An extensive list of methods is also provided to help youth organisations take the first steps towards implementing sport as a learning method on local as well as on European level. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Learn how a strategic approach can help to improve the quality and impact of your inclusion work. Follow this step-by-step approach to strategy-making - for youth organisations both large and small. (2008) Click on image to download Design your Inclusion Strategy?Does your organisation work with fewer-opportunity young people? Do you have a clear vision of where you are trying to help your young people to go? Do you feel like your youngsters are being successfully "included" into society? If so... is this inclusion happening by chance... or by design? "Inclusion by Design" is for anyone interested in learning more about how a strategic approach can help to improve the quality and impact of their inclusion work. This booklet presents a step-by-step approach to strategy-making which can be used by youth organisations both large and small. Developing an inclusion strategy should be a motivating process, not a heavy chore. "Inclusion by Design" aims to make strategy development more attractive and accessible and to give organisations the feeling they are doing more than just "going through the motions" in their daily work. The approach to strategy-making and the methods described here are not only relevant to the field of inclusion but can be used by anyone in almost any context. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. A step-by-step guide for National Agencies (Inclusion Officers) to develop their inclusion strategy. The booklet contains ideas on how to make the most of your (limited) resources to have lots of inclusion impact (2007). Click on image to download Shaping Inclusion for national agenciesThe launch of the Youth in Action programme ushered in a period of change for National Agencies and their work on inclusion. New roles and new demands have created a need for a more strategic approach. But what is "strategy"? What is involved in developing a strategy specifically on inclusion? How do you know if your NA actually needs an inclusion strategy? These and other questions are addressed in this booklet. Shaping Inclusion de-mystifies strategy and encourages NAs to take a more strategic approach to inclusion. The booklet presents a step-by-step approach which NAs can use to develop their own national-level inclusion strategies. In this way NAs can maximise the results and impact of their inclusion work. Shaping Inclusion aims to make strategy development more attractive and accessible. The approach and methods described here are not only relevant to the field of inclusion but can be used by anyone in almost any context. This booklet is part of the SALTO 'Inclusion for ALL' series. Check out the complete series at www.salto-youth.net/InclusionForALL/. Inspiration from the Youth Inclusion Forum on how to work on issues of inclusion and diversity most effectively. Conclusions and recommendations from this SALTO Inclusion conference. Click on image to download Inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities has been a priority in the European Commission's youth programmes from the beginning. With the new Youth in Action Programme (2007-2013), a new European Inclusion Strategy has been developed to ensure accessibility of the Programme for ALL. The SALTO Youth Inclusion Forum, and a parallel Virtual Inclusion Forum in October 2006, gathered a great variety of inclusion experts and practitioners who gave their feedback and recommendations on how to increase social inclusion in European youth work. This booklet collects the findings of the participants and contributors at this Inclusion Forum and a number of practical proposals for the work with different groups of young people with fewer opportunities. It already triggered changes in the Commission's Inclusion Strategy and SALTO Inclusion's work for the near future. Maybe it could also inspire YOU !? The Youth Inclusion Forum was organised by the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre and financially supported by the European Commission and CIRIUS, the Danish National Agency of the YOUTH Programme. |