TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Susana Alves
The project aims to increase competences in youth workers in supporting young people with intellectual disabilities in mobility projects.
The need to promote these projects and increase the quality in the support of participants with disabilities fit the aims of the involved organisations that work with people with disabilities or want to involve this target in mobility projects. One of the main difficulties in these projects is to find appropriate and trained accompanying persons for the participants.
The TC involves 27 youth workers that are or would like to be accompanying person or team leader for participants with intellectual disabilities in mobility projects (ESC, youth exchanges, and so on), from Italy, Lithuania, Spain, Hungary, Portugal, Sweden, Greece, Malta, Austria and Latvia.
The main method is co-planning and co-creation of the programme by the participants, to respect and fit the learning needs of the participants. Other than this, peer learning, exchange of good practices, role playing, problem solving, crisis management methods, gamified approach, Human Library and methods of peer support.
New partnerships, new project collaboration and capacity building for youth workers that goes with participants with intellectual disabilities abroad. (to be completed)
Coordination of the project, full-time trainer and support in the logistics.
Susana is a very well organised trainer, but open and flexible at the same time, letting the learning process to unfold organically together with the participants.