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Creating Safer Spaces & Events for youth groups - Toolkit for Youth Workers
This tookit detailly describes what is essential when holding space for youth groups, for their safety and well-being. The toolkit devides space holding into different stages: Care in Advance, Opening, Holding & Closing the space as well as Aftercare.
Aims of the tool
The toolkit is accessible to youth workers to have a basis and common ground of holding safer spaces for youth groups. The toolkit aims to give youth workers orientation in the complexity of organising and holding events to consider the diversity of needs within a group. It gives ideas and strategys how to to takes these differences into account and ressoucefully implement ways of inclusion.
Description of the tool
Youth workers will gain practical methods and strategies how to create inclusive, safer spaces before the event starts until the care afterwards.
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/6095
This tool is for
Youth workers, facilitators, space holders, pedagogues, teachers, trainers
and addresses
Social Inclusion, Group Dynamics, Project Management, Organisational Management, Youth Participation
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Training and Networking
Duration:
30 minutes
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
Agnieszka Lorek, Alexandra Feilmayr, Eva Versteeg, Liza Chikvem, Marie Wächter, Natalie Hardzei, Soraia Ferreira, Taxia Spanou, Tess, Yustina Kostova
in the context of
Training Course ‚Embrace‘ by coMetta (August 2026)
The tool has been experimented in
Training Course
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
Unfold eV (on 23 October 2026)
and last modified
18 October 2026
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