Diversity Youth Manager

Background Professional practitioners in the youth sector aim to undertake work which targets groups of youth on the margins of society. Much of the time youth from socially and economically deprived backgrounds and those with disabilities for example do not have the same type of opportunities as their peers. Young people are suffering from lower levels of motivation & low self-esteem. The DYM (Diversity Youth Manager) project identified a training route that enabled disabled & marginalised youth to propel forward by developing and enhancing skills and facilitating them to improve their wellbeing. The project was rooted with an emphasis to create a route for a digital, entrepreneurial, coaching and intercultural non-formal training medium for practitioners, through the advancement of a Diversity Youth Worker, who supported disadvantaged youth and guided them to improve technical skills in order to develop their intra/entrepreneurial skills. The partner aspiration, with this project, was to share the competences of each partner to develop a framework about 'diversity youth work” in order to introduce in each country the digital innovations that were transferred to the individual trainers/youth workers, as well as to our young people. Objectives The objectives were centred around training for trainers around a group of young people (disabled, NEETs, rural area, migrants) testing the programme & its effects in order to carry out corrective actions to create an effective and innovative training project that adheres to the document "Digital inclusion for a better EU society”– policy recommendations, training needs & good practice examples". The project included objectives related to skills for digital material creation, specifically the creation of: video, management of social media, IT-tools, PR emphasising the importance of the labour market & adult life, including the following: - Digitisation of society - Planning, - Design & evaluation of diversity youth work - Information & data literacy - Communication - Digital creativity - Security - Reflection & evaluation. Partners contributed to the holistic design of the workshops, all project partners sent youth workers to participate in the workshops for trainers. Through this process of first developing the skills & competencies of trainers for youth workers (target.1), the project built capacity to reach & impact directly young people (target 2) with workshop mobilities & events. Implementation Project Activities included: -Project coordination -Formation of management team to coordinate and manage project work & activities, monitored project progress and performance. -Administrative monitoring and reporting- preparation of progress, final and other reports. -Evaluation and quality assurance -Transnational project meetings prep & delivery - 4 core project meetings between partners for implementation and coordination purposes. - 1 Short-term staff training event (C1); 12 Youth workers as Diversity Youth workers - 4 national workshops which engaged with 20 young disabled and disadvantaged people - Dissemination planning & delivery -Delivery of IO’s & multiplier events - Creation of Moodle platform - Built game to engage youth and practitioners -Development of guide -Closure Feedback from participants concerning the progress and sustainability of plans to work within youth & symposiums in each partner country. -Follow-up -Functioning and updated web presence & Facebook profiles. -Monitoring of target group -Tracking the sustainability of results -Financial management (budget control, reporting, justification control, time sheet control, etc.) -Quality Assurance, Risk management & Evaluation monitoring; Achievements Concrete Results & Outputs: -4 Partnership meetings were held - Staff Training Diversity Youth worker (12youth workers) -4 workshops for 20 youngster (15-26 years) - Publication of materials (programme, e-guides, e-book, assessment app, platform) - 4 Multiplier events - Facilitation skills methodology, Workshop guide & tutor guide - 12 youth workers developed as Diversity Youth Workers & 12 Youth workers as Digital Enterprise Facilitators - 4 workshops created for future delivery within a EU network & made available as OER -32 semi-structured questionnaires for participants - 4 web presences, with each partners own webpage - Workshops day for 12 Diversity Youth worker - Assessment Guide for EQF - Glossary -Youthpass certificates -4 country reports - Executive summary report of project findings - Facebook profile created, - YouTube channel created, - Moodle portal with open educational resources - Monitoring report on the Workshop (c1) - Improvement plan from the first Workshop - Monitoring report on the local Workshops - Multiplier events - Symposium - Dissemination, social media, blogs, articles, posters, leaflets printed, roll up banners - Video’s and guide -promotional material translated by partners