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clear procedures for continuous updates on new national and international research, trends and methods in the field of youth and youth work.

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Introduction

There is a constant flow of new information relevant to youth work. Youth work is high on the political agenda and new research projects are being launched, new expert groups are being established and new policy documents are being adopted. A lot of interesting developments are also going on on local level and through cooperation within EGL. Very much of this is highly beneficial to local youth work and can bring added value when developing the quality of both policy and practice. Being updated helps youth work to be both knowledge based and relevant. You will find much useful information in the change makers kit library, and one way of keeping yourselves updated is to subscribe to the change makers kit newsletter!

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 do we keep ourselves updated on new research and methods?
    • Would we like to have some research done on our youth work?
  • How do we work with the implementation of new methods?
  • Do we think that we already know enough?
    • How can we secure that we are up-to-date with relevant knowledge?

Self-assessment

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Good practices & tools

  • Turku Rock Academy

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  • Ruuti participation framework for young people of Helsinki

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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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