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The organisation and practice of local youth work needs…

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to provide youth workers with information, education, training and support that is relevant and adapted to local needs and to stimulate and support continuous competence development.

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Introduction

Society and the needs and interests of young people are constantly changing and due to this youth workers are constantly confronted with new questions and challenges. In order to be able to handle this youth workers need to have access to relevant and continuously updated information, education and training, as well as to time and space to discuss and digest this input and its consequences with their peers. The support of networking, peer learning and exchange is hence important elements in stimulating and supporting continuous competence development among youth workers.

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 find out what different kinds of competence development that are needed?
  • What different kinds of competence development is today available for local youth workers?
    • Are there regional or national networks that can be used for peer learning and exchange?
  • How to we support youth workers to take part in different external trainings and seminars, offered by for example Salto?
  • Don’t we acknowledge the need for competence development of youth workers?
    • Don’t we see youth work (paid or voluntary) as a profession?

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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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