TOY - Trainers Online for Youth
This is a reference for Ramon Tena Pera
The Youth Social Rights Network (YSRN) is an international network of organisations whose main objective is to promote access of young people to Social Rights.
This was a study session that aimed at analyzing the kind of coaching that would be useful for youth workers helping young NEETs, specially in accessing the labour market.
More specifically, this study session aimed at:
-Developing participants’ competence on how to approach and work with young people at risks of becoming NEET;
- Exploring and reflecting on coaching competences;
- Creating support network for young people at risk of becoming NEET that will work on ensuring that these young people make a successful move from education into employment.
The main target group were youth workers and other professionals working with young people at risk of becoming NEET's.
Nationalities involved in this activity where:
Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, the Netherlands, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.
The study session was organised according to different sessions, all based in non-formal education methodologies.
For example, during the first sessions participants developed some "profiles" of potential NEETS that they developed into puppets. They also used this cases to develop role plays that were used in developing some participants' coaching competences.
Participants in the activity developed a guide with the main issues that a professional working with NEET's has to take into account when planning coaching with them: how to plan a coaching process, how to do a needs assesment, hot to use on-line tools for coaching...
In addition, the study session was helpful in promoting that YSRN became a formal international organisation.
I was the external educational advisor appointed by the Council of Europe Youth Department. My main task was to promote pedagogical advice on how to develop the activity.
As part of the team I was also participating in the evaluation sessions, and in developing some of the training sessions that took place during the activity.