InclusiON NOW! Online Course for Youth Workers in the Eastern Partnership countries

In December 2020, a group 30 youth workers from 6 Eastern Partnership countries will undergo 25 hours of an intensive Online Course:

• exploring how to outreach and involve young people more effectively;
• learning how to deal with multiple factors of exclusion;
• developing strategies for more inclusivity of youth organizations;
• acquiring new tools and methods of youth inclusion.

Twice a week, you will meet experts, youth work practitioners, professional inclusion trainers to:

• share experiences and challenges of youth inclusion in the Eastern Partnership countries;
• learn best practices of increasing inclusiveness of youth work provided to the disadvantaged young people;
• network and develop partnerships.

The Online Course will focus on hands-on approach and practical strategies for achieving inclusive youth work in youth organizations in the Eastern Partnership countries.

The following topics are expected to be covered within the Online Training:

Session A: Inclusion and Diversity (90 minutes)

By the end of the session the participants will be able to:

• form a basic understanding of the core terminology of inclusion and diversity;
• define what privilege is and how it impacts the marginalized groups;
• discuss the triangle of violence and its impact on marginalization of vulnerable social groups.

Session B: Social Identities and Power Dynamics (90 minutes)

By the end of the session the participants will be able to:

• distinguish various social identity categories and their implications for the marginalized and dominant social groups;
• explain social privilege and marginalization in a general context as well as its implications on the dominant and marginalized groups’ behavioral patterns;
• differentiate and discuss types of power.

Session C: Identity and Diversity (90 minutes)

By the end of the session the participants will become:

• Aware of their own diversity;
• Aware of prejudices specific groups face;
• Aware of similarities/differences in the group;
• Aware of the groups they belong to / are perceived to belong to;
• Aware of diversity and types of discrimination.

Session D: Prejudices and Unconscious Bias

By the end of the session the participants will be able to understand:

• Their selective perception;
• The effects of stereotyping and labelling.

Session E: Communication and Prejudices

By the end of the session the participants will learn:

• About their own prejudices;
• How to reflect on their own communication;
• Tips for a constructive communicative response to prejudices.

Session F: Youth Participation and Involvement

By the end of the session the participants have:

• A basic understanding of the core terminology of youth participation, methods for youth involvement and overall idea of the Theory of Change;
• A wider understanding on how theory can help conceptualizing youth involvement strategies;
• An idea of what the benefits of involving young people in change processes can be.

Session G: Transition of Youth into Inclusion

By the end of the session the participants will have:

• Gained knowledge on working methods and practical tools on how to support the transition of youth into inclusion;
• Increased awareness on the topic.

Session H: Inclusion of young people

By the end of the session the participants will:

• Have a basic understanding of the core terminology of exclusion, segregation, integration and inclusion;
• Have gained a wider knowledge and understanding of inclusion in their own contexts.

Session I: Community Mapping Plan

By the end of the session participants will have basic knowledge:

• About community mapping as a starting point of strategic planning and audience development strategy;

Participants will be able to:

• identify vulnerable social and national groups;
• develop a draft of a community mapping plan.

Session J: Strategic Planning of Our Futures

By the end of the session participants will have basic knowledge:

• On strategic planning;
• Community life, rights and responsibilities.

Participants will be able to: 

• practice skills to discuss openly, work in a team and to have vision;
• promote curiosity and belief that the future is in the hands of every young person and that what they do matters.

K: Inclusion Projects in our Communities

By the end of the session participants will have basic knowledge:

• On project circle and realize the connection between activities and overall objective;
• On logical framework matrix verification;

Participants will be able to: 

• resume their work during the workshop;
• prepare a plan for their future activities.