Youth Moving

YOUTH MOVING aimed to enhance care leavers participation in democratic life in Europe, through their empowerment as active citizens, especially addressing how to connect with, express their views ...

1. Investigate the involvement of young people from alternative care in democratic processes in society. 2. Raise awareness about the need of inclusion of young people from alternative care in democratic processes in society. 3. Promote international cooperation of people working with youth from alternative care. 4. Promote cross-sectoral cooperation of organizations and institutions working with youth from alternative care in representing the views of youth in the society

Through the project we produced 2 project results and activities related to them: PR1) Developed curriculum of workshops to encourage young people to actively participate in society 1. Conducted research on the involvement of youth from alternative care in democratic processes through desk research and interviews 2. Investigated good EU practice examples for active involvment of youth from alternative care in democratic processes in the community 3. Developed training materials for youth workers, based on research conducted with the aim of encouraging and teaching young people to get involved in democratic processes in the community *** after development of the material, an LTT activity was organized - training in which youth workers and young people from alternative care participated, and where developed materials were implemented 4. Translation to all partner languages 5. Pilot training materials on one group of young people in each partner country 6. Dissemination PR2) Developed video material for raising public awareness 1. Preparation of the video production: finding suitable stories, creating scenario 2. Filming of the video materials 3. Editing the video materials 4. Translation to all partner languages 5. Dissemination

Youth Moving project produced 2 project results: PR1) Curriculum of workshops aimed at encouraging the participation of young people from alternative care in the democratic processes of society PR2)Video material for raising public awareness and policy makers awareness about the importance of participation of young people from alternative care in democratic processes Project benefited more than 300 people through: 1. Empowering organizations involved in the project to actively advocate that views of young people from alternative care in designing the services they need and receive are taken into account 2. Enabling partner and associated organizations to share knowledge, insight into good practices and design the most appropriate forms of work with young people from alternative care for their more active role in society and reduction of social isolation 3. Expansion of knowledge and competencies of people working with youth from alternative care in the field of active involvement of these young people in democratic processes in society