About the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre

• Have a look at our current workplan
• Download our dynamic SALTO Inclusion powerpoint presentation - with an overview of our resources, statistics, and achievements.

SALTO Inclusion's mission statement

From a wide consultation with different stakeholders in 2004, SALTO Inclusion came to the following mission statement:

The SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre provides resources (training tools, publications, information,...) for persons and agencies supporting young people with fewer opportunities (Inclusion workers, youth workers, social workers, National Agencies & Coordinators) and provides opportunities for training, exchange and reflection on their inclusion practice. The SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre works towards the visibility, accessibility and transparency of its inclusion work & resources and towards making 'inclusion of young people with fewer opportunities' a widely supported priority.

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SALTO Inclusion from the start till now

Already at the end of the nineties, the National Agencies and the European Commission voiced the need to have a support structure to implement international training and support activities, which were difficult and resource consuming to implement by themselves. The Commission launched the idea of creating 4 support structures for training. Jint - the Flemish Belgian National Agency - applied to be one of them and was successful in its application.

SALTO-YOUTH (Support for Advanced Training and Learning Opportunities within the YOUTH programme) was created in September 2000 within 4 National Agencies (UK, France, Germany and Belgium Flanders). The 'SALTOs' started off with a part-time project officer who mainly organised two yearly training courses on a priority topic of the European Youth Programme and that was about all which was feasible within the limited working time and budget.

Over the years, the SALTOs got more and more known and fulfilled a clear need within the frame of the YOUTH programme and in training in Europe. The Commission recognised this by freeing more resources for the SALTO work, provided that each SALTO would focus on a specific European priority topic besides many horizontal tasks. The SALTO-YOUTH Inclusion Resource Centre was born.

Besides the traditional SALTO courses on Inclusion, the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre nowadays also collects, develops and spreads resources for inclusion activities (e.g. background texts, training methodologies and presentations about Social Inclusion), which you can find in the Toolbox or in the links lists. We also keep a list of experienced trainers in the field of inclusion to facilitate further training activities on Inclusion - or we provide information on existing training activities on Inclusion in Europe, via the European Training Calendar or via the Inclusion Newsletter. Last but not least, the SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre also supports the National Agencies and the European Commission in their Inclusion strategies and activities.

The SALTO-YOUTH Resource Centre in Belgium Flanders is also responsible for the development and management of TOY - the Trainers Online for Youth database, as well as different parts and functionalities of the SALTO website.

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Future

In the future, the SALTO-YOUTH Inclusion Resource Centre aims to build further on the already existing resources for Inclusion work, with new training and youth work methods, more trainers for inclusion and more training opportunities in the field of Inclusion. The information service (inclusion newsletter) will become a more regular tool for spreading these resources.

The SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre wants to become a partner in key inclusion activities in the work of the National Agencies and the European Commission. SALTO Inclusion will endeavour to make inclusion training activities part of the regular NA network offer.

This goes hand in hand with the continuing development of the SALTO platform for making resources available: the SALTO-YOUTH.net website

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Year by year

Click here to get a year by year overview of SALTO Inclusion activites and achievements.

Who is who?

The SALTO Inclusion Resource Centre has 2 staff members:

• Marija Kljajic: SALTO inclusion officer
• Tony Geudens: SALTO Inclusion officer, TOY administrator, Inclusion webmaster

Contact both of us by email via 'inclusion@salto-youth.net' or seperately 'firstname' followed by @salto-youth.net or phone +32-22.09.07.20 (switchboard) or fax +32-22.09.07.49

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