Prevention++. Let’s make prevention great forever!

We are happy to meet YOU! It is not by chance this file reaches you. As you have been recommended as a person dedicated to the community, which values non-formal learning (NFL) and, especially, preventive education, we invite you to participate in an online training course, where you will learn how to deliver preventive education activities on addictions for the youngsters you work with. This being said, let’s see what we prepared for this experience!

What you will learn in this training course:

• To design NFL activities on topics related to preventive education;
• To facilitate NFL activities on preventive education in an online & offline setup;
• To incorporate better digital tools in your work on preventive education;
• To transfer all you learn about preventive work on addictions in your organization.

This event is part of the Erasmus+ Project “Prevention++”, so we’re happy to warmly welcome all of you on board!

Profile of the participants:

• Youth worker actively engaged with young people in NGOs, schools, public institutions, support services, etc.
• Highly motivated to develop professional competence related to preventive education in general, and substance addictions in particular.
• Have the support of you organization to organize activities on preventive education and to transfer the methodology used in the TC.
• Committed to fully attend the mandatory working days.
• Your command of English is at least good.
• Already know how to use basic online tools in education and facilitation.
• Good experience with NFL programmes.
• Familiar with the EU educational strategies.
• Very positive and energetic person, with some good jokes ready to share with others!

The Methodology:

The working methodology addresses multiple concepts and activities related to preventive education on substance addictions. “The Online” offers many resources for a NFL setting, so expect to be part of a very interactive experience. We will use Zoom for the plenary (registration link to be provided after you confirm your participation).

We will work mainly with individual and group tasks, research and experiential learning. Be ready to share, give and reflect throughout the whole TC, be it in the plenary, by chat, private messaging or even face to face, if possible. We will encourage a tri-dimensional approach: acquiring knowledge, practical experience and reflective evaluation.

Expect to have an intense working program with a wide range of methods, from research-based tasks to art-based sessions, interactively guided. We will mix theoretical input, methods, tips & tricks on facilitation, practice from your organizations and some legal provisions. Anyway, the floor is not only ours, the facilitators and organizers, but yours as well, hence feel free to consider your participation as a co-creative contribution.

It’s very important to understand one very important aspect of this TC, and actually of this whole Prevention++ project: we don’t own the truth of preventive education on addictions, we just promote one educational approach that acquired good results so far. And this will be the baseline of our contribution. The final outcome will definitely incorporate your contribution.

Logistics:

The TC will bring together a minimum of 27 participants from Romania (9), Latvia (9) and Estonia (9), plus the team of facilitators.

We kindly ask each one of you to register via the following link, otherwise we may not consider you as participant in the TC. Deadline for signing in it’s 18 of September.

https://forms.gle/o6FSygnU5ooKASkq9

Technical & functional requirements for attending the TC (please consider these details as mandatory):

• Full availability to attend the mandatory working sessions: please make sure that you are not disturbed by other tasks during the sessions (we know what home-based work means, so we are not absurd regarding the unexpected events, but please do not schedule other activities during the sessions).
• Stable internet connection.
• PC, Laptop or tablet that allows you to download and install various tools (please make sure that you don’t have any administrator rights conflicts). For some of the tools, we will not use the browser versions, but the installed ones.
• Access to a smartphone, as an additional gadget to some tasks.
• Functional webcam and microphone. Please test them before.
• In case you plan to test the methods during the TC, make sure you can schedule them testing sessions with your groups before.

Each participant will be awarded a Youthpass certificate at the end of the TC as a recognition of the learning outcomes.