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Supporting youngsters with autism in youth work: Relationships and social interactions
Training Course
22-28 August 2022 | Domžale, Slovenia
Our main goals are to explore different relationships and how to address these topics with different groups of young people, including young people with autism. We will specifically focus on relationship topics of friends, family, self-advocacy, and partnership. In terms of relationship dynamics, we will be also addressing the topics of emotions, behaviours, and interactions. During the project we are planning to work directly with youngsters with autism, users of Association ASPI and other groups of young people in Youth centre Domžale. Our goal is to prepare tools that will help youth workers and other to use them to address the topic of relations with group of youngsters.
Relationships and social interactions are topics is interesting for all young people, but especially relevant for young people with autism. The aim of the training course is to equip participants with skills to develop methods on this topic, appropriate to use with different groups of young people, including young people with autism, as this group is confronting the biggest challenges in this area.
PARTICIPANTS WILL:
- receive expert input on the topics of relationships, emotions, and working with different groups of young people in non-formal contexts;
- experience working directly with young people with autism and cooperating with them as members of the group;
- co-create and deliver workshops for young people on topics of relationships and social interactions, based on non-formal learning methodology in the context of youth work;
- have opportunity to put the workshops into practice in their organizations and environment, addressing the challenges of post covid - addressing the topic of reconnecting in various social interactions
RESULTS OF THE PROJECT
Cards to support the trainers and youth workers in dealing with the topic of relationships, social interactions, and emotions The cards will be adaptable for basic use and upgraded, with more focus on emotions. Together with the cards a booklet proposing different options of using the cards will be developed.
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Training overview
http://trainings.salto-youth.net/10188
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This Training Course is
for 16 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
, Partner Countries Neighbouring the EU
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches
Working language(s):
English
Center za mlade Domžale (Youth NGO)
Youth Centre Domžale was founded in 1998. It is a public institute, located in a town of Domžale in central Slovenia. It provides activities for young people between 7 and 30 years, their parents, youth workers and other experts in the field of youth and social work.
The principal aims of the Youth Centre are: to provide support for youth in the local area; to give them opportunity to spend their free time wisely and to encourage them to get actively involved in a society on a local, national, and international level. To achieve these goals we run various activities, which are held by Youth Centre Domžale alone or in cooperation with other Slovenian and international organizations. What do we do: organise workshops for youth and children (creative, photo, design, career), help young people in need and take care of their well-being (study help, preventive activities, counselling, professional lectures, coordination of the Unicef’s safe spots in local area, sport activities), manage daily centre Plac za mlade, inform young people about topics, related to them, and cooperation with other youth organisations,
non-formal education activities (creative workshops, language courses), cultural dimension (exhibitions of young artists, art, literally and photo calls, reading club),
cooperation with local schools (educational workshops, info points, activity days), international programmes (youth exchanges, trainings, volunteering projects… financed by Erasmus+ and European solidarity corps),
programme for parents and experts in the field of youth and social work (lectures, workshops, counselling),
volunteering (inclusion of local volunteers in the youth work, providing opportunities for first working experiences) and charity activities. We also: coordinate local action group for addiction prevention, represent youth in the Youth Commission in Domžale Municipality, have accreditation of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programmes, are regional partner of Eurodesk network and we support young people in achieving their interests.
Co-organiser(s):
- Association ASPI (Others)
Contact for questions:
Živa Mahkota
E-Mail:
Phone: +386 40 255568
Costs
Participation fee
There is no participation fee for the training course.
Accommodation and food
Accommodation and food are covered by the organizers from the E+ project budget.
Travel reimbursement
Travel costs will be reimbursed up to the maximum amount indicated by the distance calculator provided by the European Commission:
10-99 km: 23 Euro
100-499 km (180 Euro, 210 for Green travel)
500-1990 km (275 Euro, 320 for Green Travel)
2000-2999 km (530 Euro, 610 for Green Travel)