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Training course "How to be a youth mentor?"

Training Course

19-26 October 2024 | Saraiķi village, Latvia

This training course is created to prepare youth mentors that can provide systematic individual support to young people with fever opportunities. Programme is based on a social service that we are providing to more than 200 young people every year.

In the last 4 years we as an organization have created a new social service called "Youth mentoring network". Basicly it is nothing new, we just have created a guided system for anyone who wants to become a professional youth mentors and support young people with fewer opportunities individually.
This training programme is based on a programme we uses to prepare mentors in 5 municipalities in Latvia and prepare mentors every year in our city.
Topics we will be covering in this training:
1. Creating contact and trust 
2. Screening and red flags 
3. Social skills
4. Relationships
5. Daily life skills
6. Sexual orientation and gender identity
7. Emotional intelligence
8. Discipline and micro-routines
9. Addictions
10. Anxiety and depression
11. Burnout
12. Values and ethics

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Training overview

http://trainings.salto-youth.net/12585

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This Training Course is

for 30 participants

from Bulgaria, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland

and recommended for

Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Volunteering mentors

Working language(s):

English

Organiser:

Development platform YOU+ (Youth NGO)

Development platform YOU+ is the one of the strongest and largest youth organisations in Latvia that is working with a huge spectrum of young people - starting from active and talented young people to young people with fewer opportunities.
Since the establishment of the organisation it has been working on helping local youth to implement their ideas through the non-formal education and EU provided support.
Organisation has organised more than 200 local youth trainings, more than 30 local and international projects in the last 3 years and involved more than 1000 active members that are developing the future projects and local community.
Daily activities include supporting and mentoring youth in the form of local youth mentoring network , coordinating voluntary work in Liepāja, coordinating Eurodesk information network of the west region of Latvia and organising local activities and projects. Also, the organisation is developing Erasmus+ KA3 projects, Erasmus+ Youth work Accreditation, Solidarity projects in European solidarity corps and Voluntary work and Work projects in European solidarity corps.

Contact for questions:

Andris Kāposts

E-Mail:

Phone: +37120597141

Costs

Participation fee

No fee

Accommodation and food

During the project you will be provided with 3 meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner), also 2 coffee breaks a day, free of charge.

Travel reimbursement

Lithuania - 210 EUR/per person;

Poland - 210 EUR/ per person;

Georgia - 360 EUR/ per person.

Bulgaria - 275 EUR/ per person

Latvia - 0 EUR/ per person

Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:

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